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Top 10 Freight Markets for Contract and Spot Freight

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Current trends in freight can be explained by looking at the top ten contract markets by percentage of contract-spot mix. Top markets for van freight. Top markets for van freight. For van freight, the top two contract markets are in southern California. England depend on longhaul freight out of the West.

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Why Chattanooga is the Silicon Valley of Trucking with Craig Fuller

The Logistics of Logistics

FreightWaves is the leading Freight Intel provider, offering current digital intelligence and context to the freight community on a central platform. [03:50] FreightWaves started in Fort Worth, Texas, but we moved here. We’ve got FreightWaves Live in Chicago in November. People call it the Bloomberg of freight.

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Spot market demand heats up out West

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DAT load boards provide the largest and most trusted digital freight marketplace in the trucking industry, with more than 256 million loads and trucks posted annually, plus insights into current spot market and contract rates based on $60 billion in real transactions. Oil-related freight movements from Houston are definitely in a lull.

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REPOST: Why Chattanooga is the Silicon Valley of Trucking with Craig Fuller

The Logistics of Logistics

Craig Fuller is CEO and Founder of FreightWaves, the only freight-focused organization that delivers a complete and comprehensive view of the freight and logistics market. FreightWaves is the leading freight intelligence provider, offering current digital intelligence and context to the freight community on a central platform.

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Sun Belt States are Hot for Seasonal Freight

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Freight markets are heating up in the Sun Belt. Flatbeds saw rising freight volume and rates in the Southwest and a handful of Southeastern markets. Outbound rates fell in key Northern markets, including Chicago , Denver , and Philadelphia. Flatbed freight is strongest in the Southeast region, but not in the usual locations.

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How Natural Gas and Plastics Impact the Truckload Spot Market

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Those effects have been more dramatic since August 2016, with the new construction adding to the stronger-than-usual start to the year for flatbed freight. That’s a lot of freight for railroads and trucks alike. But so far this year, it’s also been a major source of van freight. Houston is in the middle of all of it.

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Load Volume and Rates Move in Opposite Directions

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FREIGHT RATES. Along with our standalone freight rates tool DAT RateView, all DAT load board packages include broker spot market rates on the lanes you're searching. On the upside, rates rose last week in individual freight markets, including Philadelphia, Buffalo, Chicago and Charlotte. DAT load board features.