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5 Tips for Keeping Your Cool When Selecting a Reefer Carrier

Freight Plus

Before you can book anything you're going to want to know where it is going and what needs to get there. Making sure a trailer is 25 degrees when it pulls out of the lot is one thing, but knowing it's still 25 degrees in there at high noon at a rest stop in Fresno is another piece of mind entirely.

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Delayed Produce Could Lead to a Busy May

DAT Solutions

The end of the month didn’t bring the upward bump that we typically see when shippers try to move goods before closing their books. Out of California , volumes were flat, with higher load counts out of the Fresno area offset by declines farther south. mile, and yesterday it was back to $2.60. FALLING LANE RATES.

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Will 2018 be the Start of the Robot Revolution?

Enterra Insights

The MENAFN analysts note, “If one types ‘artificial intelligence’ on — a tool that allows us to check how often a term was printed in a book between 1800 and 2008 — we can clearly see that our modern-day hype, hope and fears concerning AI are by no means a novelty.” AI may free us from drudgery.

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Truckload Rates Finally Catch Up to Freight Volumes

DAT Solutions

That's normal, since it comes right after the end of Q1, when shippers are rushing to move freight before closing their books. Shipments out of the Santa Maria District also pushed rates up out of the Fresno market. Spot market volumes were down during the first week of April. Rates from Miami to Elizabeth, NJ , were up 32¢ to $1.91/mile.

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Truckload Rates Finally Catch Up to Freight Volumes

DAT Solutions

That's normal, since it comes right after the end of Q1, when shippers are rushing to move freight before closing their books. Shipments out of the Santa Maria District also pushed rates up out of the Fresno market. Spot market volumes were down during the first week of April. Rates from Miami to Elizabeth, NJ , were up 32¢ to $1.91/mile.