<div class="phx-topic abstract-wrapper"><p>Demand for flatbed trucks on DAT Freight &amp; Analytics’ spot load boards is at a seven-year low for January, creating excess capacity that is keeping pressure on rates. </p></div>

Demand for flatbed trucks on DAT Freight & Analytics’ spot load boards is at a seven-year low for January, creating excess capacity that is keeping pressure on rates. 

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<div><p>A loss of freight from US home construction and manufacturing is depressing spot market volumes and rates for flatbed trucks, creating surplus capacity that at the moment isn’t being matched with demand. That may create opportunities for some flatbed shippers,...

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<div class="phx-topic abstract-wrapper"><p>The company told analysts during its third-quarter earnings call some customers moved freight elsewhere after it increased truckload rates, only to return through mini-bids as they reassessed capacity and pricing. </p></div>

The company told analysts during its third-quarter earnings call some customers moved freight elsewhere after it increased truckload rates, only to return through mini-bids as they reassessed capacity and pricing.

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<div class="phx-topic abstract-wrapper"><p>But participants on a Hapag-Lloyd webinar indicated the timing and severity of the market correction remain contested, with the outlook heavily dependent on geopolitics.</p></div>

But participants on a Hapag-Lloyd webinar indicated the timing and severity of the market correction remain contested, with the outlook heavily dependent on geopolitics.

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<div class="phx-topic abstract-wrapper"><p>The drop in transit cargo was a deliberate operational trade-off made to free up space for inland freight, which has allowed hinterland volume to grow sharply this year. </p></div>

The drop in transit cargo was a deliberate operational trade-off made to free up space for inland freight, which has allowed hinterland volume to grow sharply this year.

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<div class="phx-topic abstract-wrapper"><p>For-hire motor carriers added jobs year over year in September for the first time in 41 months as higher pay and an uptick in demand drew more employees. </p></div>

For-hire motor carriers added jobs year over year in September for the first time in 41 months as higher pay and an uptick in demand drew more employees.

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<div class="phx-topic abstract-wrapper"><p>Charlie Cunnion most recently served as vice president of supply chain and customer service for CMPC Forest Products North America.</p></div>

Charlie Cunnion most recently served as vice president of supply chain and customer service for CMPC Forest Products North America.

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