Tag: freight volume

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Entering summer, spot market rates show signs of life
Spot truckload rates for van and refrigerated freight hit their highest national averages since January during the week ending June 23, according to data from DAT Solutions. Trend to watch, says DAT: Can the spot market sustain the momentum through the typical July-August freight slump?
June 26, 2019
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DOT: Growing population, freight volumes to challenge U.S. transportation systems
With the United States’ population expected to increase by 70 million people and freight volumes expected to grow by more than 40 percent in the next 30 years, Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx says these issues will create major challenges for the country’s transportation infrastructure.
January 17, 2017
The DOT and Secretary Anthony Foxx released the Beyond Traffic 2045 report this week outlining some of the transportation and infrastructure challenges America will face over the next 30 years.
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Christmas-New Year ‘downtime week’ rates some of the strongest this year for reefers, vans
This weekly spot market update, covering last week’s Christmas-New Year interregnum for a sizable chunk of the American economy, showed van and reefer rates remaining strong, “perhaps even stronger” than prior weeks, noted DAT’s Ken Harper.
January 6, 2017
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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
Reefer freight led the segments in volume increases last week with a national 8.5 percent boost. At once, rates lost another 8 cents per mile as a national average, in part due to declining fuel prices but also due to sub-par harvests in dry California. Rates trended up last week in the Northeast and Midwest, where early crops are heading to market and grocery chains are stocking up on perishable items for the back-to-school season. Outbound rates rose in a handful of markets, including: Twin Falls, Idaho; Chicago; Green Bay, Wis.; and Elizabeth, N.J.
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Carrier survey shows mixed rate, volume outlook
Smaller carriers slightly more pessimistic on volume than large carriers; a majority of all carriers are expecting rate increases over the next year.
June 25, 2013
Smaller carriers were slightly less optimistic on rates than large ones, according to results here from Transport Capital Partners Business Expectations Survey for Q2 2013.
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Floods, bad weather pushed freight availability down in April
Freight volumes on the spot market were down — out of trend — 16 percent in April of this year from April 2012, according to the DAT North American Freight Index, which says that bad weather — like floods in the Midwest — could have been one of the driving forces in the decline. According […]
May 15, 2013
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Spot freight up in September
TransCore’s spot freight index reached the highest level for the month since 2005.
October 26, 2010
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