Dry Van Load-to-Truck

July 18-24: Van Freight Availability Dips by 12%, Trucks Up by 4%, vs. Prior Week

Dry Van Load-to-Truck Ratio, on the Spot Market
4-Week Van Load-to-Truck Ratio	July  11-17	July  18-24	Week-over-Week: July 18-24 vs. July 11-17		June  2009	June  2010	Year-over-Year: June 2010 vs. June 2009
	2.80	2.37	- 15%		1.00	3.60	+ 259%

NOTE: The load-to-truck ratios are displayed in a logarithmic scale, to make it easier to compare ratios across equipment types and to better illustrate the significance in a deviation from the 1:1 baseline. Load-to-truck ratios are derived from postings on TransCore's DAT^® Network.

• Load postings declined by 12% for vans and equipment postings increased by 4% on the spot market during the week ending July 24, compared to the previous week. As a result, the load-to-truck ratio for dry vans declined by 15% week over week, from 2.80 to 2.37 available loads per truck.  
 
• For the month of June, van freight availability was up by 1% and truck capacity declined by 11%, compared to May. This led to a 14% increase in the load-to-truck ratio for the month, from 3.2 available loads per truck in May to 3.6 in June. This is the highest ratio for the month of June in more than five years. June is typically a peak month for freight.
 
• Dry van load-to-truck ratio was up by 259% in June, when compared to June 2009, due to a 139% increase in spot freight availability coupled with a 33% decline in truck capacity on the spot market, year over year. Although much of this disparity is due to the extreme weakness of freight availability in the aftermath of crisis in the financial markets that began in Q4 2008, spot freight availability has also improved at a better-than-seasonal rates since May 2009.