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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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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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Summer seasonal rate doldrums starting to turn early in some dry van, reefer markets

Rates often stagnate after the June peak, and markets softened in July. But prices may have turned a corner last week, with van rates holding steady on higher volumes in some markets.

August 9, 2018

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Some mottling in recently intense spot market demand maps, as seasonal declines continue

Spot rates in many parts of the country are still above the peak prices from 2017, but van rates are starting to climb down from extreme heights of recent weeks, reefer rates at an even faster pace. At once, this is not a typical February.

February 8, 2018

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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

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Demand edges down, but freight volumes steady in van, lagging a bit in reefer with weather

A little “bitter fruit” in the spot market update this week, notes Ken Harper of DAT. “We’re still seeing good volumes on freight, especially on the Top 100 van lanes, but unfortunately the capacity is there as well, so rates haven’t lifted.”

March 29, 2017

Van rates averaged $2.33 per mile last week from Chicago to Buffalo, but the return trip from Buffalo to Chicago still lagged at a paltry $1.33 per mile on average. If you can make it fit with your schedule, split that trip to boost your revenue. In the example here, a load from Buffalo to Pittsburgh, which paid an average of $2.82 per mile last week, paired with a load from there back to Chicago, will make for a $2.14 average for all loaded miles on the round-trip, compared to $1.83 for the there-and-back. That works out to about $625 more in revenue for 135 extra miles, not counting any deadhead.

Spot market update: Local demand indicators for three major segments in the last week

A somewhat lackluster week on the spot market saw van and reefer volume increase slightly, but rates were more or less unchanged as a national average. Flatbed volume and rates considered broadly continued to drift down, but Savannah-Charlotte was a hot round trip.

September 1, 2016

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Van freight: A few hot markets amid cold overall picture

Spot van load availability edged up half a percent last week on DAT Load Boards, but rates followed overall demand down in most major markets. Some seasonal bright spots, however, were evident.

November 18, 2015

High load-to-truck ratios turned the map red in the Dakotas and Mississippi last week, but those states aren’t showing high load volumes.

Spot market van freight: As volume grows slowly, pricing lags

Freight trends this week: Nationally, van rates dropped a couple cents, but opportunity exists in local markets in N.Y., Pa., Md., Va. and Ind.; Charlotte-to-Buffalo lane still ripe for triangulation.

August 20, 2015

Nationally, with volume increases continuing for vans, the load-to-truck ratio had edged up since the last update (from 1.7) but fell week-over-week slightly to 1.8 loads per truck on DAT load boards with an influx of trucks. Freight availability declined most sharply in the Midwest and California. While states like South Dakota and Vermont show as dark red in this “Hot States” map, meaning that they had high load-to-truck ratios, both had relatively few loads available, so check outbound freight volume before taking a load into those states.

Winter storm cutting from Midwest across Southeast and beyond through Thur.

Various winter storm warnings were in effect for areas from Texas and Oklahoma east to the Appalachians and beyond; Also: More winter-trucking pics from readers around the nation.

March 4, 2015

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It’s AMAZING! You WON’T BELIEVE IT!!

“Keep on truckin’ – and know there are people out there who will advocate for you, even if it means being banned from every mainstream news Facebook page there is. God bless the truckers.”

November 24, 2014

New York State Thruway partially reopened 3 p.m. Friday afternoon

With some sections having been closed for more than three days, as of morning November 21 more than 100 miles of the New York State Thruway east and west of Buffalo, N.Y., remained closed.

November 21, 2014

Buffalo caterpillar

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