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Down another 4-5 cents/mile: Average spot rates in the last week, all segments

Truckload capacity, with more truckers advertising their availability to haul via the load boards, is building in the first weeks of 2019. National average spot rates for dry van, reefer and flatbed are going the other direction. Showing signs of the mid-Winter seasonal slump getting well under way, the number of trucks on the spot […]

January 24, 2019

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Trucks flooded the spot market last week returning from holidays — rates fell 4-6 cents/mile nationally

Holidays are over, it’s certain. The large majority of the trucking world is back to work. The number of trucks posted on the spot truckload freight market increased 77 percent last week, well ahead of the 9 percent gain in available loads.

January 17, 2019

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Spot market: Rates tick up, demand’s flat, and fuel is falling

For the week ending Jan. 5, Capacity imbalance produced big gains in national average load-to-truck ratios for flatbed, though reefer and van were stable or unchanged. That could spell little movement in vans and reefers this week.

January 11, 2019

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The broker-margin transparency federal law already affords to carriers who request it

Owner-operators have a “right to review” amounts paid by shippers, collected by brokers and disbursed to themselves in any brokered freight transaction. But a right does nothing for anyone if not exercised — too many truckers, watchers contend, just aren’t aware of this one.

January 9, 2019

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Spot rates rose slightly in final week of the new year

Load posts on the spot truckload freight market declined 21 percent during the week ending Dec. 29, not an unusual figure when you compare a holiday-shortened workweek to a full one. But truck posts were down farther, 47 percent, and that tight capacity helped keep rates firm.

January 4, 2019

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Flatbed, van rates regained footing in December as reefer dips

After trending downward through most of the second half of 2018, per-mile spot market rates for flatbed and van ticked upward in December, according to data from Truckstop.com. Reefer rates, however, went the opposite direction.

January 2, 2019

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Freight’s drift toward greater regionalization: Average length of haul on the spot market

Spot market data show how dramatically average haul lengths have changed since 2012. The numbers here are based on averages calculated from loads compiled in DAT’s RateView service, which aggregates data on freight actually hauled, with a generally larger decline for reefer than flat or dry van.

January 2, 2019

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Rates, volumes held steady into Christmas week

Meanwhile, demand indicators in national average van and flatbed load-to-truck ratios declined, while the reefer ratio increased, compared to the previous week, reflecting demand to move fresh produce and temperature-controlled goods ahead of the Christmas holiday.

December 28, 2018

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Spot van rates climbed through Dec. 8 as demand indicators slackened

Van freight continues to look a bit weaker than expected as Christmas nears, while bright spots have been seen in flatbed performance nationally and reefer freight coming out of McAllen, Texas and other border areas.

December 17, 2018

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Rates relatively stable in all segments, though indicators strengthen for flatbed

And: The five biggest rate increases on reefer lanes, how to split up a return to Columbus from Allentown, Pa., and indicators for all three major segments — rates, demand, more.

December 7, 2018

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Rates a mixed bag in November as flatbed continues slide

Per-mile flatbed rates on the spot market continued to fall off in November, according to monthly rates data from Truckstop.com. Meanwhile, reefer rates surged and van rates dropped a nickel a mile.

December 3, 2018

Business

Holiday week major-lane van volume boost well illustrates e-commerce extension of retail freight season

The “Black Friday” after Thanksgiving once marked the end of the retail-freight season, but last week showed how e-commerce is extending the holiday push. Rates on the 100 highest-volume van lanes rose an average of 2.3 percent, or 5 cents per mile, during the week ending Nov. 24, with 78 of those lanes moving higher,

November 30, 2018