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Percent Change: +0.4%

Fuel Price: $2.4 /gallon


Spot market activity slips, but tight capacity remains

National Spot Rates: Van, Flatbed, Reefer

Rates begin to flatten as truckload demand edges downward

Oct 12 – 18 – Load-to-truck ratios fell for the second week in a row, a signal that truckload capacity has loosened. Truckload rates remain high due to imbalanced networks and tight capacity on specific lanes and markets.

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Trendlines shows a weekly snapshot of the month-to-date for national average rates from DAT RateView. National average spot market rates for the past four months, including fuel surcharges, are shown in the three graphs, above.

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Trendlines last updated: 10/20/2020 12:00:00 AM

Next update: 11/03/2020 12:00:00 AM

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DAT News & Blogs

Trucking Success partners with DAT to offer a special on the TruckersEdge Load Board to its members. Sign up for TruckersEdge today and get your first 30 days free by signing up at www.truckersedge.com/374122. This offer is available to new TruckersEdge subscribers only.

POWER from DAT One is the industry’s most advanced load board, with powerful tools for advanced filtering, group collaboration, automatic refreshes, multiple searching and posting simultaneously, partner research tools, and market-leading rate tools. Get your first 30 Days Free on DAT! Sign up here: www.dat.com/power/374122

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Fuel Prices

Percent Change: -0.4%

Fuel Price: $2.39 /gallon


National van rate sets all-time high in September

National Spot Rates: Van, Flatbed, Reefer

Q3 closes with a rush of spot market shipments

Sept 28 – Oct 4 – The national average for van rates set a new record high, hitting $2.38 in September – 6 cents higher than the previous record set in June 2018. Shippers have relied more and more on the spot market, with disruptions from the pandemic push freight away from the contract market, and capacity tightened last week with the rush to move freight ahead of the close of Q3.

Watch DAT iQ Live: Join the DAT iQ team live on YouTube or LinkedIn Live, 10am ET every Tuesday.

NEW! Get deep visibility into contract rates with the Freight Market Intelligence Consortium, formerly part of Chainalytics.

Get a clear view of tomorrow’s rates with the one-of-a-kind RATECAST tool from DAT iQ. Learn More >

For the latest market updates, visit the DAT blog.

Trendlines shows a weekly snapshot of the month-to-date for national average rates from DAT RateView. National average spot market rates for the past four months, including fuel surcharges, are shown in the three graphs, above.

Get Trendlines updates


SPECIAL OFFER: Free 50-Lane Look Up – Benchmark your rates against $118 billion in actual transactions.  Learn More >


Check out DAT RateView

Trendlines last updated: 10/6/2020 12:00:00 AM

Next update: 10/20/2020 12:00:00 AM

Trucking Success partners with DAT to offer a special on the TruckersEdge Load Board to its members. Sign up for TruckersEdge today and get your first 30 days free by signing up at www.truckersedge.com/374122. This offer is available to new TruckersEdge subscribers only.

POWER from DAT One is the industry’s most advanced load board, with powerful tools for advanced filtering, group collaboration, automatic refreshes, multiple searching and posting simultaneously, partner research tools, and market-leading rate tools. Get your first 30 Days Free on DAT! Sign up here: www.dat.com/power/374122