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4 reasons flatbed should bounce back soon

DAT Solutions

After a strong first quarter, flatbed freight has slowed in April. 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.

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Amazon Prime Offers Same-Day Delivery from Retailers

Multichannel Merchant

This is just the latest move in Amazon’s manifest destiny to own every aspect of ecommerce and the customer experience, from the click to the door and back again, as well as things like freight forwarding from Asia and express air with its own terminals and a leased fleet of jets. with more to follow.

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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. Reefer freight has been gaining momentum. High volumes of produce are going to urban areas like Atlanta, Chicago, and Dallas , so outbound rates fell in those markets.

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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. Reefer freight has been gaining momentum. High volumes of produce are going to urban areas like Atlanta, Chicago, and Dallas , so outbound rates fell in those markets.

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New LTL Freight Rates: Ship Pallets from Vancouver BC to Los Angeles CA for $200 USD!

Freightera

Dear shippers, It’s been quite a while since our last LTL (Less than Truckload) freight rate update! However, while we weren’t posting on our blog , we were working tirelessly on updating our system with new lanes, and more affordable freight rates. From Calgary, AB to Dallas, TX. From Miami, FL to Dallas, TX.

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Booming Oil Industry Boosts Flatbed Demand

DAT Solutions

Farther north, outbound flatbed rates in Dallas are up 5% for the month. Construction activity boosted rates out of Las Vegas : The lane to Los Angeles was up to an average of $3.31/mile. Construction activity boosted rates out of Las Vegas : The lane to Los Angeles was up to an average of $3.31/mile.

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Flatbed rates and volumes move upward

DAT Solutions

While van and reefer rates saw a decline in March compared to February, flatbed bucked the trend, making gains in both freight volumes and rates. Plenty of flatbed markets in the South and East experienced rising prices, including Birmingham, Tampa, Atlanta, Savannah, Raleigh, Harrisburg, Dallas and Phoenix. Rising Rates.

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