Load availability has been increasing steadily on the spot market, driving the average load-to-truck ratio over 7-to-1. Flatbed freight surged for the first four months of the year, increasing by more than 1,000 percent compared to 2009, before declining by 15% in May compared to April. The ratio for flatbeds stayed above 32 loads per available ...

Freight availability tripled in the first quarter of 2010, compared to the same time period in 2009, on the North American spot market, according to the TransCore North American Freight Index. Spot market freight volume has been improving steadily since October, on a year-over-year basis, and load availability has been unseasonably high since ...

Freight availability tripled in the first quarter of 2010, compared to Q1 2009, on the North American spot market, according to the TransCore North American Freight Index. Spot market freight volume has been improving steadily since October, on a year-over-year basis, and load availability has been unseasonably high since December. In February and ...

Freight availability in January rose by 54% on the North American spot market, compared to January 2009, according to the TransCore Freight Index. Freight volume has been improving since October, on a year-over-year basis, due both to the improving trend in the second half of 2009 as well as the market weakness that extended from Q4 2008 through ...

Freight availability in January rose by 54% on the North American spot market, compared to January 2009, according to the TransCore Freight Index. Freight volume has been improving since October, on a year-over-year basis, due both to the improving trend in the second half of 2009 as well as the market weakness that extended from Q4 2008 through ...

Freight availability on the spot market has been trending upward since February, as depicted in Figure 1: 2008-09 Spot Market Freight Index, below. The graph represents available freight loads on TransCore load boards in 2008 and 2009. The blue line in the graph, which represents 2009 spot market loads, first exceeded the 2008 totals in October, ...

Spot market freight availability increased by 65% in November, compared to last year, according to the TransCore Freight Index, a measure of truckload freight volume found on load boards supported by the DAT Network, including 3sixty Freight Match and TruckersEdge.net. November’s results also continue a four-month trend of better-than-seasonal ...

Freight availability on the spot market has been trending upward since February, as depicted in Figure 1: 2008-09 Spot Market Freight Index, below. The graph represents available freight loads on TransCore load boards in 2008 and 2009. The blue line in the graph, 2009 spot market loads, first exceeded the 2008 totals in October, on a ...

Spot market freight availability increased by 65% in November, compared to last year, according to the TransCore Freight Index, a measure of truckload freight volume found on load boards supported by the DAT Network, including 3sixty Freight Match and TruckersEdge.net. November’s results also continue a four-month trend of better-than-seasonal ...

On a year-over-year basis, October spot freight volumes were up by 10%. This is the first positive year-over-year comparison for 2009, due to the improving trend in the second half of this year, contrasted with the extreme weakness of Q4 2008. While the spot market for freight showed a 2.3% dip in availability for October when compared to ...