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Voices

An ELD rate boost? Maybe, but look out for the safety banana peel

“The real tragedy is the runaway economic and safety burden will fall on an unsuspecting public at a time when economic stress has been at an all-time high since the Great Depression.” –reader and truck owner Gary Carlisle

August 17, 2017

Business

2017 owner-operator income: Flatbedding hot, reefer hauling chilly

Checking in on owner-operator income through the first half of the year: Flat to down for most segments, with flatbed gaining momentum and reefer haulers losing ground. Here are the numbers for 2017’s first half.

August 11, 2017

Business

What happened to the summer freight doldrums? August starts strong for vans, flats, reefers

DAT’s Ken Harper: “Here’s one for the record books: August started stronger for vans than any of the last 18 months. August! Really? What happened to the summer doldrums?”… Flatbed, reefer holding fairly strong as well, given the season.

August 11, 2017

Electronic Logging Devices

What a difference a day makes: Where rates could spike

Where to look for the most likely ELD effect on rates? High-volume lanes between 500 and 750 miles, which analysts call the “dangerous lanes.” It’s those where load/unload hiccups or in-transit delays easily can extend a one-day haul into a second day.

August 10, 2017

Electronic Logging Devices

ELDs’ capacity squeeze assumption no. 2: Flight from the industry

Will owner-operators and other drivers leave the industry in large enough numbers to produce a significant capacity shortage in the spot market, driving up rates? Some believe so — long as stated intentions become reality — while skepticism is prominent as well.

August 8, 2017

Electronic Logging Devices

ELDs’ capacity squeeze assumption no. 1: Fewer miles

Examining the assumptions behind the varying predictions of the post-ELD mandate demand situation. If some predictions come to pass, there’s reason to believe rates may rise enough to be a notable reward from an unwelcome imposition.

August 7, 2017

Channel 19

Interesting approach to accessorials for Uber Freight app users

It’s not exactly common when dealing with a broker that accessorials like truck-ordered-not-used, detention and the like are up-front accessible and available to anyone — or guaranteed should situations arise that cause them to come into play. How does $200 + $2/mile deadhead on a canceled load sound?

August 3, 2017

Business

After hot end of July on the spot market, lucky lanes in van, reefer

The central question remains whether we’ll see the typical August slump in freight and rates for vans and reefers, or if the economy has enough oomph to make August as relatively exceptional as July was.

August 3, 2017

Business

Van freight volume, rates ease off recent hot streak

Coming off of two-year highs just two weeks ago, van rates and volume dipped slightly in the most recent week. Reefer saw similar declines.

July 28, 2017

Business

Flatbed volumes/rates remain well above average, van holding, as midsummer rate doldrums loom

“The fireworks are over,” says DAT’s Ken Harper, but flat and van volumes remain above average for this time of year in the last week. At once, “rates slipped for vans as urgency around the end-of-quarter inventory moves, holiday shipments and Amazon Prime sales” fell off a bit.

July 19, 2017

Channel 19

Voices on ELDs, hours, pay as grassroots efforts begin to bear fruit

As news out of Congress shows some of the results of anti-ELD mandate forces speaking out, this voices round-up brings commentary under Max Heine’s July “Pulse” column on what one reader dubbed “the real problem” at the root of ELD issues, hours. Not everyone agreed, some seeing rates/money as the more bedrock issue in all the back-and-forth over ELDs and hours.

July 18, 2017

Overdrive Radio

Podcast: ‘Make mad money! Be a freight broker!’: Independent James Woods on a culture of dishonesty among middlemen

The push for maximum profit, whatever the cost in toil or honesty be damned, clearly infects some corners of the trucking industry, to the detriment, too often, of those doing the work of hauling the freight. That’s the message of independent James Woods, who spoke for this edition of the Overdrive Radio podcast on subjects of transactional transparency, fair dealing and more.

July 13, 2017