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Freight Market Update and Q2 Trucking Outlook

Zipline Logistics

Following an unprecedented downturn, the freight market has posted an almost full calendar year of impressive growth spurred by demand from a few sectors of the domestic economy. The second half of the past quarter was highly atypical and posted freight volumes that vastly exceeded those generally seen during peak season.

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Retailers receiving inventories any which way they can

Cathy Roberson

Ocean freight solutions Ocean rates and capacity have been a big concern for all shippers for quite some time. Dollar General’s CEO noted that their updated freight outlook after Q1 assumed that its regular ocean carriers would fulfill only 85% of their contractual commitments.

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Allentown gains traction as freight hub

DAT Solutions

Allentown, PA, was once a major manufacturing town, but it has emerged more recently as a popular location for warehouses and distribution centers, especially at this time of year. With its distribution centers and access to multiple freight corridors, Allentown was exceptionally busy for a short holiday week. Allentown to Boston : $3.96/mile,

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America Adapting to Supply Chain Chaos

Operations and Supply Chain Management

On the outskirts of Columbus, Ohio, where the remains of a 200-year-old canal built to connect Cleveland with Cincinnati snake around new warehouse parks, a modern tributary of the global economy widens a little more with each planeload of goods that roars down its runways. International freight being unloaded at Rickenbacker airport.

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Flatbed ratio reverses 10-week decline

DAT Solutions

More loads are moving out of Cleveland and Houston, but the big surprise was a surge in volume and rates out of Roanoke, Virginia. That's typically a small market for flatbed freight, but a newly expanded steel mill there appears to be generating more freight, and may be benefiting from tariffs on foreign competition.

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Life before load boards

DAT Solutions

Keller is an asset-based brokerage with a 150-truck fleet, plus packaging and warehousing services. When his company had overflow freight, he would drive down to Exit 5 on the Ohio Turnpike where there was a concentration of truck stops. Learn more about DAT Power, the biggest and best load load. Load board reduces leg work.