As lumber prices retreat and housing construction demand softens, flatbed carriers with substantial exposure to single-family housing face the prospect of a slow start to 2023. Higher mortgage rates, and construction costs for concrete and other building materials, continue to drag on single-family housing production, which decreased by 6.15% m/m and 20.4% y/y, according to…
You might be surprised to find some winter vegetables in tight supply this Thanksgiving weekend. The list includes celery, broccoli, cauliflower, and lettuce. Supplies of lettuce, in particular, have been impacted by both a change in seasons and Impatiens Necrotic Spot Virus (NSV), which kills lettuce when it’s in its mature stage, just before harvest.…
When it comes to getting paid for your work, factoring and invoice processing are exceptionally valuable. But the process for administering these processes can sometimes seem highly complex. To support our valued carriers in simplifying these processes, DAT Freight & Analytics and OTR Solutions are excited to announce the launch of a new factoring and…