When you need to make a larger freight shipment or manage extra volume during peak periods, Estes offers the capacity you need at competitive rates. You can count on us for reliable volume LTL and truckload freight services—thanks to our robust fleet, vast network, and dedicated workforce of...
handled by mode of transport, over the review period, has been presented in this industry trend. the data has been used as one of the parameters apart from average distance per shipment (km), freight volume (tonkm), and freight pricing (usd/tonkm) to assess the freight transport market ...
Freight and economic policy makers will also be able to use this information to explore different potential economic scenarios.;This research analyses private data sets (TL rates), and publicly available data such as diesel cost, unemployment, wages, population, and gross state product to understand...
The final step of a delivery process is referred to as last-mile logistics. The focus of last-mile logistics is to deliver items to the end customer as fast as possible. The last-mile delivery market is expected to grow steadily during the forecast period, primarily because of the growth ...
Despite paying drivers more per mile, carriers struggle to increase driver take-home pay. They continue to enrichen compensation packages with a variety of bonuses and fringe benefits to entice the working public into truck driving. In this stage of the market cycle, shippers must continue to ...
Actual Spot Truckload Rates vs. Y/Y To build further confidence in the Coyote Curve (a Y/Y spot rate index), let’s see it up against our proprietary all-in cost-per-mile index — this is comparing annual change versus the actual rate. (As a reminder, these numbers are informed by ...
Now that the West Coast longshore workers and the port have reached a tentitive agreement, trucking rates are already being affected. Spot market van rates from LA rose 4 cents to $1.92 per mile within the last 8 days. The bottleneck of freight that was caused by the strike severely decrea...
When using a FTL carrier, the shipper takes advantage of contracted lane rates that establish prices per mile for a truck operated between two locations that are significantly less than the comparable LTL price for shipping a full truckload. The challenge for the shipper is to consolidate multiple...
Bucking the typical trend, July's van rates exceeded the June average for the first time in six years, with a 1.4 percent (2 cents per mile) increase. Reefer rates fell 1.7 percent (3 cents per mile), but that's relatively strong compared to the 5.2 percent average decline in July of...