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Storms and Rising Fuel Costs Put Pressure on Flatbed Rates

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Emergency supplies are usually delivered in dry vans or reefers at first, but once rebuilding efforts are underway, construction materials will start moving on flatbeds. As you can tell in the Hot States Map below, demand for flatbeds was high across the Southeast. Rising diesel costs added extra pressure and pushed prices higher.