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Amazon Prime Offers Same-Day Delivery from Retailers

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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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Flatbed rates move lower, but they're still pretty high

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DAT load boards provide the largest and most trusted digital freight marketplace in the trucking industry, with more than 270 million load and truck posted annually, plus insights into current spot market and contract rates based on $57 billion in real transactions. Las Vegas to Los Angeles jumped 64¢ to $4.93/mile.

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Booming Oil Industry Boosts Flatbed Demand

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Construction activity boosted rates out of Las Vegas : The lane to Los Angeles was up to an average of $3.31/mile. Las Vegas to Phoenix also jumped up to $2.97/mile. Continuing the regional theme out of Nevada: Flatbed rates from Reno to Seattle rose to $2.97/mile. That pushed rates lower out of Tampa.

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Storms and Rising Fuel Costs Put Pressure on Flatbed Rates

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Rates rose across the region, with shippers moving freight out of the way of the coming storm. Construction materials often move out of Las Vegas and Reno , and it’s a little early in the season for those markets to weaken as much as they have. The lane from Las Vegas to Phoenix lost 57¢ at $2.57

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Major Freight Markets Saw Biggest Rate Surge of the Year

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Freight patterns showed increased retail trade ahead of Memorial Day weekend, and since some drivers finished the week up early ahead of the holiday weekend, capacity also tightened. In general, markets that feed into the Northeast were up, while Denver, Seattle , and rates coming out of the Northeast were down. Out West, L.A.

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Flatbed Markets Continue to Boom

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DAT load boards provides the largest and most trusted digital freight marketplace in the trucking industry, with more than 179 million loads and trucks posted annually, plus insights into current spot market and contract rates based on $45 billion in real transactions. The average outbound rate last week in Phoenix was just $1.79/mile,

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Spring Came Early in These Freight Markets

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The number of loads available on the spot market last month was also up more than 100% compared to February 2016, which is a pretty good sign that the freight recession really is over. Rates got the biggest boosts out of Memphis, Atlanta and Seattle. Since the freight coming out didn’t pay very well, inbound lanes paid more.