Tag: contract rates

Channel 19

2020 income outlook: Owner-operators trend optimistic for the year ahead

Believe it or not, as it were — there were, however, a variety of shrugs and SMHs to the annual question on business income outlook for the new year this time around social media. Polling results, however, showed much more of an “it’s got to be better than last year” dynamic than results this time in 2019.

January 9, 2020

Channel 19

Govt. shutdown ripples out — though not toward military freight

And leased owner-op Jerry Boyd’s somewhat sanguine view on the year just ended, at odds with some independents running spot freight: “Everywhere you went,” Boyd said, “you could get a load of freight [with a good rate] – I’ve never seen it like that, just unload and reload.” …

January 16, 2019

Business

Engage.Bid tool can be effective for small carriers working large-shipper RFPs

Devliering the ability to “price with conviction” is the goal of the tool, released by TMW last year — it enables carriers to pull shipper RFPs’ lane-by-lane requests for rate bids into a proprietary module and apply analysis tools. Then output bids quickly back to RFP lane files, speeding up the process.

August 22, 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

Channel 19

Postscript: Analyzing base linehaul rates minus fuel

A quick glance at rate performance year over year, minus fuel, is fairly simple via DAT’s Trendlines pages. And, asks a reader, If rates are flat, where’s the capacity crunch everybody keeps talking about?

July 8, 2015

Business

FTR, Internet Truckstop to forecast spot market activity

FTR and Internet Truckstop announced a new strategic industry partnership to offer market analysis and specificity for both contract and spot freight segments by region and by trailer type.

September 10, 2014