PORTLAND, Ore.--()--Spot market freight availability increased by 259 percent in March, compared to the same month in 2009, according to TransCore’s North American Freight Index. The high load volume in March, added to the atypically high totals of January and February, contributed to the strongest first quarter volume since 2004.
March’s spot freight also exceeded February’s near-record volume by 44 percent. A month-over-month increase of this magnitude is typical of the season.
Brokers, 3PLs, carriers, and owner-operators in North America are on track to list more than 60 million loads and trucks this year across a variety of services feeding TransCore’s DAT® Network. As a result of this high volume, TransCore’s North American Freight Index is representative of the ups and downs in spot market freight availability throughout the United States and Canada.
The DAT Network sets the standard for load board services in the North America by providing:
- The most loads and trucks found on any load board on the internet or in truck stops,
- The highest number of exclusive loads found on a single load board,
- The best quality brokers in the industry with the highest credit scores and lowest-days-to-pay.
About TransCore’s Commercial Technology Group
TransCore’s Commercial Technology Group is a leading provider of transportation solutions in the United States and Canada serving brokers, carriers, owner-operators and shippers with best-in-class products. Load boards include Loadlink in Canada and 3sixty Freight Match powered by the DAT Network in the United States, which has set the industry standard for the spot freight marketplace since 1978. TransCore’s asset tracking and in-cab communications solutions feature the industry’s fastest response times and state-of-the-art satellite networking. TransCore provides fleet compliance, distribution and intermodal services, automated carrier safety and insurance monitoring, truckload rate indices for contract markets, and the most popular broker logistics software. TransCore is also the largest global manufacturer of transportation-based radio frequency identification (RFID) applications with 37 million RFID tags and 58,000 readers distributed in more than 40 countries throughout the world. TransCore RFID products support the toll, traffic management, rail, access control, homeland security, and parking markets.
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