Whats Up With Freight
- Thread starter ROBBY
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Um. You'd have to be more specific. Is there a volatile lane that you are having an issue with? Did you have thoughts on volumes of orders? The only thing I would note this week was that there is some less equipment in IL.
If you are taking about volume of orders I see:
May 2019 volumes at 8.7% greater than May of 2018
Last week May 2019 at 15.8% greater volume than same week May 2018
First week June 2019 at 11.06% greater volume than same week 2018
From where I sit 'What has been going on...' has been fantastic lately. Oh, everyone here sleeps well after long days though. May need to add some good people soon.
Keep well,
Mike
I may have to start a new trend: Martini Fridays at my house. I'm seriously considering it.
If you are taking about volume of orders I see:
May 2019 volumes at 8.7% greater than May of 2018
Last week May 2019 at 15.8% greater volume than same week May 2018
First week June 2019 at 11.06% greater volume than same week 2018
From where I sit 'What has been going on...' has been fantastic lately. Oh, everyone here sleeps well after long days though. May need to add some good people soon.
Keep well,
Mike
I may have to start a new trend: Martini Fridays at my house. I'm seriously considering it.
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Flatbed/Dry Van here.
Flatbed outbound has been pretty slow for the last 3 weeks for us, rates are not looking very good either.
We were expecting the tariff changes would have some sort of up-kick in the volume, but it appears to have little to no effect in trading traffic. Trade stats wont be published for a while anyways.
Dry Van has seen improvements.
Is this internal data mike? Looks good.
https://www.dat.com/industry-trends/trendlines shows a -85.6% change in Load-to-Truck ratio for flatbeds. From what I understand, DAT uses cross border in their data as well. Caveat however, we're comparing YOY with a crazy May 2018.
I don't know. Maybe it's just Friday and I need to go home.
Martini Friday's sound nice.
Flatbed outbound has been pretty slow for the last 3 weeks for us, rates are not looking very good either.
We were expecting the tariff changes would have some sort of up-kick in the volume, but it appears to have little to no effect in trading traffic. Trade stats wont be published for a while anyways.
Dry Van has seen improvements.
Is this internal data mike? Looks good.
https://www.dat.com/industry-trends/trendlines shows a -85.6% change in Load-to-Truck ratio for flatbeds. From what I understand, DAT uses cross border in their data as well. Caveat however, we're comparing YOY with a crazy May 2018.
I don't know. Maybe it's just Friday and I need to go home.
Martini Friday's sound nice.
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I know we quit posting outbound loads because our phones would be jammed for 15 or 20 minutes after taking it down.
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Hey Bobby,
I hear some of your frustrations, it can take some time for things to correct themselves.
Yes, internal data. The large majority of what we do is Dry Van so I'm not seeing the same FB volatility some others are.
I would agree by the time Friday afternoons come around I'm pretty spent. Also, we had a pretty big Portuguese lunch ordered in. I think heads are nodding here.
Keep your chin up, everything that goes down comes up (eventually).
Keep well,
Mike
I hear some of your frustrations, it can take some time for things to correct themselves.
Yes, internal data. The large majority of what we do is Dry Van so I'm not seeing the same FB volatility some others are.
I would agree by the time Friday afternoons come around I'm pretty spent. Also, we had a pretty big Portuguese lunch ordered in. I think heads are nodding here.
Keep your chin up, everything that goes down comes up (eventually).
Keep well,
Mike
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