The month of March had a high load volume, contributing to the strongest first quarter volume since 2004
, according to TransCore. The availability of freight on the spot market was up 259 percent from March 2009, according to TransCore's North American Freight Index.

Spot market freight availability also improved over February's near-record volume by 44 percent, a gain TransCore says is typical of the season.

The TransCore Freight Index measures truckload freight volume on load boards supported by the DAT Network, including 3sixty Freight Match, TruckersEdge.net and Link Logistics, the company's Canadian subsidiary.

Brokers, 3PLs, carriers, and owner-operators in North America list more than 50 million loads and trucks per year across a variety of services feeding TransCore's DAT Network. As a result of this high volume, TransCore's Freight Index is representative of the ups and downs in U.S. spot market freight availability.

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