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Flatbed volume growing in Southeast — rates still lag
While Spring might be coming a little early for flatbeds in the Southeast with freight volume and demand indicators rising, rates continued to move lower in the last week of February.
March 3, 2016
Business
So, what’s for dinner?
“I saw box freight running for more than three dollars a mile the other day. When we had a box that was the running rate for flatbed and we were eating $1.90/mile… Grass is always greener, yaddah yaddah…”
January 17, 2016
Business
These latest numbers show the Thanksgiving effect on the flatbed spot market
Where it’s hot and not: The holiday week saw flatbed load availability, predictably, fall — bright spots exist in Medford, Ore.; Rapid City, S.D.; Omaha, Neb.; Little Rock, Ark.; Shreveport, La.; and Montgomery, Ala.
December 3, 2015
Business
Rates dip again in October: Charts on van, reefer, flatbed trends
This is the third straight month all three segments have seen a decline in their national averages. Rates have been trending down since hitting record highs last summer. Here are the latest numbers for reefer, dry van and flatbed rates.
November 10, 2015
Business
Where freight’s hot and not: National van, flat, reefer demand update
Nationally, demand for owner-operators pulling dry van rose with load availability, but reefer and flatbed both showed declines in DAT’s load-board network.
November 5, 2015
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Holding on: Independent Zach Beadle and the ’76 Peterbilt cabover he won’t soon sell
"If a [new] truck is always broke down and it takes forever to get it fixed, I'll stick with my old truck!" --Zach Beadle, Devine, Texas
October 27, 2015
Business
Rates continued to tumble in September, all three major truckload segments decline
Average per-mile rates on the spot market in all three major truckload segments fell in September from August, according to data from Truckstop.com, following up on big drops seen in August. Here are the numbers.
October 12, 2015
Business
Flatbed demand, rates flat to declining nationally
Bright spots for flatbed truck demand last week could be found in the the Pacific Northwest on DAT Load Boards. South Dakota was also a hot state for flatbeds, with concentrated demand in the Rapid City market.
September 30, 2015
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Flatbed demand: Hot states, local markets
Spot market flatbed freight availability tumbled 13 percent last week after a prior-week gain, DAT reported. Local opportunities in places like Houston, Texas, an otherwise low-demand state in the latest update.
August 27, 2015
Business
Reefer leads volume boost on the spot market
Where it’s hot and where it’s not — load volume shows increases in this weekly freight trends spotlight, but rates slip a little: hot market maps and analysis for dry van, reefer and flatbed.
August 13, 2015
Business
And the flatbed adventure begins …
“I feel like the guy who shows up at the job site with new boots and a new tool belt.” — George Parker’s flatbed transition, in the books.
August 5, 2015
Channel 19
Postscript: Analyzing base linehaul rates minus fuel
A quick glance at rate performance year over year, minus fuel, is fairly simple via DAT’s Trendlines pages. And, asks a reader, If rates are flat, where’s the capacity crunch everybody keeps talking about?
July 8, 2015
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