The US truckload spot market has been slowly climbing back up from a bottom hit in April, in terms of freight volumes and rates, data from load-matching service DAT Solutions show. The DAT Freight Index rose 27 percent year-over-year in October, its third consecutive annualized increase, and up 1.7 percent from September, its third sequential […]

The American Trucking Associations’ advanced seasonally adjusted For-Hire Truck Tonnage Index contracted by 0.3% in October, following a 6.3% drop during September.

While October was the second strongest month for spot market freight availability so far this year there were only small improvements in rates, according to the freight matching service provider DAT Solutions and its North American Freight Index.

The spike in borrowing costs in response to President-elect Donald Trump’s pro-growth agenda is causing some heartburn in America’s housing industry. San Diego mortgage broker Shanne Sleder said a third of his clients, many of whom were already stretching budgets to buy homes in pricey southern California, are having to reconsider what they can afford […]

The long-awaited truck capacity crunch hasn’t been cancelled, it’s simply been postponed, analysts, shippers and carriers at the 2016 JOC Inland Distribution Conference here said. They expect the crunch to finally arrive in late 2017 or 2018. (This article requires registration at the Journal of Commerce. To access, please click on the above link.)