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Articlesby Deborah LockridgeMay 6, 2020

Do Low Spot Freight Rates Mean Brokers Are Gouging Truckers?

Freight rates on the spot market in April plunged to five-year lows, thanks to plummeting demand caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. It's so bad, owner-operators have been protesting all over the country, calling for more broker regulation. But is it really a broker problem? Or classic supply and demand?

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Newsby StaffMay 1, 2020

FTR, Truckstop.com Track Recovery From COVID-19 Shutdowns

A new index provides visibility on the state of the trucking market as anticipation of an economic restart grows.

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Newsby StaffApril 7, 2020

COVID-19 Economic Conditions Catch up to Spot Market

The pressure to restock grocery stores and distribution centers stripped by COVID-19 buying has quickly given way to a slump for truck freight. As March segued into April, the spot market took a tumble, according to figures from DAT Solutions and Truckstop.com.

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Newsby StaffFebruary 20, 2020

Knight-Swift, Truckstop.com Form Digital Freight Partnership

Truckstop.com and Knight-Swift Transportation announced a digital freight matching integration service aimed at helping the motor carrier's owner-operators and their vast network of third party trucking partners move more freight efficiently throughout the country.

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ProductsNovember 15, 2019

Truckstop.com Freight Marketplace Features Instant Booking

The Book It Now feature allows freight brokers and 3PLs of any size to add instant load booking functionality to their business and carriers will be able to see Book It Now loads from freight brokers they know on Truckstop Mobile.

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Newsby StaffOctober 9, 2019

Truckstop.com and Schneider Launch ‘Book it Now’ Solution for Freight Marketplace

Truckstop.com and Schneider have completed a pilot program on a new "Book it Now" solution that gives Schneider’s carriers the ability to book freight at the click of a button.

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ArticlesAugust 5, 2019

Are We In a Truck Recession?

First-quarter 2019 GDP grew at 3.2%, and the latest guess about the second quarter is 1.7%. That latter number is a disappointment for sure, but it is not a negative, says longtime trucking economic analyst Noel Perry. But what about freight?

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ArticlesFebruary 28, 2019

Commentary: Freight Market Tightness Points to 3 Possible Economic Outcomes

The freight market is still tight in 2019, despite changing conditions over the course of 2018 that originally drove it forward. Noël Perry, chief economist at Truckstop.com, thinks that the current data points to three possible outcomes.

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ArticlesAugust 30, 2016

3 Trends in the Spot Freight Market

As FTR and Truckstop.com apply "big data" analysis to spot market pricing, Noel Perry, FTR transportation economist, offers some insights into the volatility of spot pricing and how spot prices correlate with contract pricing.

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