| Industry Trends | Week | Month | Year | |||
| Spot Market Load Index | - 10% |  |
- 8.3% | |
+ 134% |  |
| Spot Market Truck Index | + 3.8% |  |
- 10% | |
- 36% |  |
| Dry Van Load-to-Truck | - 15% | |
+ 14% |  |
+ 259% | |
| Flatbed Load-to-Truck | - 19% | |
- 16% | |
+ 315% | |
| Reefer Load-to-Truck | - 4.1% | |
+ 12% | |
+ 308% | |
| U.S. Retail Fuel Price | + 0.7% | |
- 4.4% | |
+ 13% | |
|
July 18-24 vs. |
June 2010 vs. May 2010 |
June 2010 vs. June 2009 |
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Trend of the Week
Spot market load
availability softened by 10% and equipment
postings increased by 3.8% in the week of July 18-24, compared to the
previous week. Flatbed capacity,
especially, continues to ease with a 9% increase week over week, and spot market rates
for flatbeds dipped by $0.02 to $1.61 (line haul only) in this week's 30-day rolling average,
nationwide. Reefers are
still constrained at almost 6 loads per available truck, but
demand has ebbed since June. Supporting that trend, reefer rates
have cooled by $0.03 this week; to $1.53. The national average rate in June was
$1.59. Dry
van rates trended sharply upward from January through June on the spot market,
but dropped by $0.01 in the most recent 30-day rolling average ot $1.31. Van rates
increased more moderately for contract freight through June, when the average
rate hit $1.42 for line haul.
About TransCore Trendlines
Trendlines provides a selection of key industry indicators drawn from
TransCore's U.S. Freight Index, the standard spot freight market barometer based on more than
60 million loads and trucks listed by intermediaries and carriers across the U.S. each year on services feeding
TransCore's DAT®
Network. Trendlines also includes industry data from the American Trucking
Associations and the U.S. Department of Energy. This site is updated every week. We invite you to subscribe to email alerts for future Trendlines updates, or contact us to offer your comments and suggestions.
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Technology Group provides a full line of commercial freight services, comprising industry standard
load
board products powered by the DAT Network for
brokers, shippers, and truckers. This includes truckload rate indices for contract
and spot market freight, automated carrier insurance e-certificates and DOT authority
monitoring, and related services.
TransCore's Commercial Technology Group also provides satellite-based
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solutions, logistics software used by more freight brokers than any other
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TMS, distribution and intermodal services, and a variety of
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reporting, titling, and
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