Heavy Duty Trucking, August 2018
HDT AUGUST 2018 42 WWW TRUCKINGINFO COM INDUSTRY Load Truck Turnaround Time A longer turnaround time indicates that it is taking longer for any particular load to be accepted for cartage Amount of time a load was posted on the Truckstop com load board minutes Time is rounded to the minute 2018 data is calculated through June SOURCE TRUCKSTOP COM 40096 minutes 41898 minutes 75561 minutes 70719 minutes LOAD TRUCK 2017 2018 2017 2018 1 4 7 10 13 16 19 22 25 28 31 34 37 40 43 46 49 52 2018 2017 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 WEEK 0 30 60 90 120 150 2008 959 840 906 1047 1001 1070 1161 1033 1027 1229 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 Weekly Market Demand Index Spot Market Rates Index Seasonally Adjusted Indexed to 2008 Q1 Y Y Change The MDI is a measure of relative truck demand in the spot market It compares load availability to truck availability SOURCE TRUCKSTOP COM After stabilizing during 2016 spot market rates began to surge around mid year in 2017 The acceleration continued into Q4 as the market hit a year over year growth of more than 20 SOURCE FTR
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