Tag: e-commerce

Team driving: Finding the right balance of driving hours, time apart

Federal hours of service regulations are the same for team drivers as solo drivers, though one team truck has two on-duty and driving clocks. Each driver has a 14-hour on-duty clock and an 11-hour driving clock, and each driver is required to take a 30-minute break during their shift.

March 20, 2018

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Team driving: E-commerce, ‘driver shortage’ pushing team pay to new heights

Owner-operator teams are in high demand by fleets, with carriers dangling major bonuses and appealing pay packages to draw in teams amid booming e-commerce and what carriers say is a critical driver shortage.

March 19, 2018

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New survey asks truckers about impacts of e-commerce on business

The 14-question anonymous survey looks to find out how the recent emergence of e-commerce has changed business models and operations within trucking.

March 9, 2018

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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.

Christmas gifts for spot market carriers in e-commerce

According to Adobe’s digital index, shoppers have spent $1 billion online on all but one of the 35 days between Nov. 1 and Dec. 5, and Cyber Monday was roughly double that — $1.94B. Obviously, the goods had to get to distribution centers in order to be fulfilled.

December 8, 2016

Darker areas have higher load-to-truck ratios, meaning there’s less competition for van loads in those states. Nearly every state in the union showed a somewhat favorable demand indicator on average last week for dry vans, Florida and some smaller Northeast states being the exceptions.

Fall freight season spreading out beyond Thanksgiving? Spot market update illustrates e-commerce trends

“The very decided trend toward e-commerce for holiday shoppers” holds the chance of extending, or at least re-ordering, “the historic notions of the ‘second freight season’ ending by Thanksgiving.” –DAT’s Ken Harper

November 18, 2016

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Van freight ‘unseasonably strong,’ reefer holding — rates haven’t followed up with volumes

The past couple of years have seen the Fall freight season dwindle in intensity, but it’s lasted through December and January due to e-commerce. In this weekly spot market update, intel on just what markets are benefiting dry vans and reefers.

November 4, 2016

Van overview: Van freight didn’t see a big boost in the last full week of October, but load posts started rising at the end of the week, with an extra surge on Halloween. The month as a whole was strong compared to last year, however. Rising markets include three major van markets that saw outbound rates rise at least 2 percent for the month of October: Los Angeles, Dallas, and Denver. Volumes also rose significantly in L.A., likewise in Atlanta and Chicago. But as noted above, van rates barely moved on a majority of the 100 highest-volume lanes last week. Pricing stabilized in Charlotte, after some up-and-down weeks following Hurricane Matthew.

Click for Parts

Expanding e-commerce options make ordering parts online efficient and convenient.

January 1, 2012

Most people are comfortable with e-commerce, says Steve Rowe, co-owner of autohaulersupply.com. Even so, he encourages truckers to order from an encrypted site: “The ‘s’ on ‘https’ is for secure.”

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