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Spot market demand heats up out West

DAT Solutions

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. Seattle is the closest U.S. Rising Rates. Falling Rates.

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This Week in Logistics News (April 4-8, 2016)

Talking Logistics

Amazon expands same-day Prime delivery to 11 more cities (Seattle Times). MercuryGate Launches Global, Omni-modal Freight Procurement Solution. Moving on, here’s the supply chain and logistics news that caught my attention this week: Trucking Stocks Tumble on Downgrade, Pricing Outlook (WSJ- sub.