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Business
Vans, flats in good demand — and improving — on the spot market
Conditions continue to improve for many truckers in the spot market in many areas around the country. In this week’s update, the flatbed Hot States map is about as hot as we’ve ever seen it. Rates and volumes did retreat, however, in some areas,
March 22, 2017
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Business
Cross your fingers and say, three times, ‘Spring freight season’ …
As on a teeter-totter, as on the spot freight market — what goes down must come up. Well, sort of. Spot market volumes on DAT Load Boards continued their climb last week, enough to finally put pressure on rates to rise.
March 8, 2017
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Business
Spot freight volume: 100 percent higher than this time last year
The stat in the headline doesn’t tell the whole story, however, as rates are basically flat from where they’ve been the past few weeks. Some bright spots, however, in flatbed.
March 1, 2017
Higher volumes in the Southeast and Northeast have been driving much of the action. A lot of lanes have been up-and-down as of late, though, depending on weather changes. For these demand maps, as is usual in these reports, darker colors represent higher load-to-truck ratios and better negotiating strength for carriers on average.
Business
Things I’ve learned about open-deck hauling
And dry van!: “I also learned that Golden, Colo., has the heaviest and cheapest paying loads out there, because they’re all beer and liquor and the beer companies should be ashamed of some of the prices they’re offering to haul it.”
March 1, 2017
Danger lurks in the tensile strength.
Business
Top 10 cities for van, reefer, flatbed freight in 2016
For the second year in a row, Atlanta was the top city for van and reefer spot truckload freight in 2016, according to DAT Solutions. Little Rock, Ark., held also held its spot as the top city for flatbed spot freight.
February 14, 2017
DAT Solutions recently released its 2016 rankings for spot market truckload freight.
Electronic Logging Devices
E-log sticker merits easy time at weigh station
Gastonia, N.C.-based hotshot/tow owner-operator Buster Lewis took up the Continental VDO RoadLog to eliminate the hassle of pushing paper logs, he says — big bonus: No weigh-station hassles for him and his 2006 Freightliner Business Class straight flatbed.
February 9, 2017
Gastonia, N.C.-based hotshot owner-operator Buster Lewis, with his 2006 Freightliner Business Class straight flatbed
Business
Some high notes for flatbeds amid seasonal spot market fall-off
Flatbed rates had a small rebound last week, amid seasonal declines across all segments. On the top 78 open-deck lanes, rates rose on 42 of them, while 31 declined. The other five were neutral.
February 9, 2017
Rates had a small rebound last week, too, for flats. On the top 78 lanes, rates rose on 42 of them, while 31 declined. The other five were neutral.
Business
Do it right, even if it’s ugly
Bit of tribute to the open-deckers running high, wide, heavy, ugly: “Sometimes you get to be Elvis, and sometimes you’re Jed Clampett, but both of them pay the bills. Do it right, even if it’s ugly.”
February 3, 2017
Some days you’re Elvis, some days you’re Jed Clampett.
Business
‘Freight recession over,’ analyst says — flat, van, reefer demand updates
Following an “18-month malaise” in freight sparked by the collapse in oil prices at the end of 2014, says DAT analyst Mark Montague, the freight recession is now officially over.
January 20, 2017
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Business
Though the weather turns colder, spot market temps turn up for vans, flatbeds
Winter weather in the Midwest and Northeast could push rates even higher the week of Christmas, since parcel freight will be moving until Saturday the 24th, and those lanes will be slower and more difficult.
December 16, 2016
Volumes were up slightly last week, and the national average flatbed rate is 2 cents higher than it was in November.
Channel 19
What ELDs might mean for owner-operator gross revenue in flatbed
With recent speculation that the “mother of all capacity shortages” may not materialize with ELDs, necessarily, one owner-operator’s experience making the transition a couple years back.
December 9, 2016
Chuck Shaffer hauls in a big red 2007 Volvo 780.
Business
Van and reefer rates see uptick in November, flatbed rates fall
Reefer and van rates trended up in November, while flatbed lost a few cents, likely due to the seasonality of the segment.
December 5, 2016
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