Heavy Duty Trucking, September 2018
We continue to have very healthy signup of new capacity and we really anecdotally dont know of much meaningful capacity leaving the marketplace due to the ELD mandate John Wiehoff CEO of 3PL C H Robinson in quarterly earnings conference call SPOT FREIGHT INDEX Information provided by DAT Solutions 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018200300400500600700800DECNOVOCTSEPAUGJULJUNMAYAPRMARFEBJAN DEC INDEX YEAR 2000 100 Spot market returns to earth Spot market freight availability dropped sharply in July returning to typical seasonal levels after an all time peak in June according to DAT Solutions Spot truckload freight volume fell 29 month over month but was still 34 higher than a year ago DAT predicts rate trends going forward will follow a normal seasonal pattern but at a level thats 25 to 30 higher than in 2017 The national average spot van rate fell 2 cents from June to 229 per mile while the flatbed rate slid 5 cents to 277 Rates for refrigerated equipment dropped steeply down 9 cents to 261 per mile as produce season wound down in California SEPTEMBER 2018 HDT 19 WWW TRUCKINGINFO COM When it came to women 45 of the carriers indicated that women made up less than 5 of their workforce In this case 22 were unsure what percent of their workforce are women Of the respondents 25 said the number of veterans employed is about the same as it was five years ago The numbers looked better for women with 45 saying the number of female drivers had increased over the last five years In addition 38 said they had no programs aimed at recruiting veterans and 35 indicated that they had no programs aimed at recruiting female drivers Among those respondents who knew the percent of female OTR drivers 100 of the smaller carriers reporting indicated that less than 5 of their drivers were women Larger carriers appear to be doing a better job at recruiting women with 41 indicating that women made up 6 10 of the OTR drivers Programs aimed at recruiting women included offering female trainers advertising aimed at women and making accommodations in facilities for women such as adding more ladies restrooms BETTERPLANNINGPredictive maintenanceand actionableinformation mean greater equipment uptime and strongercompliance Contact Us tmwsystems comphone 18004016682 DAT SPOT FREIGHT INDEX JULY 2018
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