DAT Market Update

Welcome to DAT Market Update, DAT's weekly freight market podcast hosted by Dean Croke.

Join Dean every Monday at 11 AM EST for real-time freight market insights. Each episode covers truckload spot rates paid to carriers, contract rate trends, capacity shifts, lane-level movement and the market signals shaping freight pricing. Dean also shares insights from DAT’s freight forecasting and rate benchmarking models to help explain what’s happening now and what may come next.

What you’ll get each week:

✅ Spot rate trends and predictions for key lanes across the freight industry (spot rates paid to carriers)

✅ Market dynamics, capacity shifts, and data-driven insights

✅ Deep dives into DAT forecasting and benchmarking models

Note: Spot rates in the truckload market are negotiated as all-in rates. When DAT separates fuel from spot rates for analysis, it is done to better isolate the linehaul supply-and-demand signal and understand whether a rate change is being driven by market conditions or fuel movement.

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Episode 31 Takeaways

• Market trends indicate growth and tightening
• Contract rates are resetting upwards

Chapters

• 00:00 Introduction
• 01:22 Market Update and Trends
• 03:15 Dry Van Market Update
• 03:42 Reefer Market Update
• 04:11 Produce Report
• 05:04 Flatbed Market Update
• 06:27 Equipment Type Forecast
• 07:25 Contract Rates Update
• 08:49 Wrap Up

Join DAT Principal Freight Analyst Dean Croke every Monday at 11 a.m. ET for the DAT Market Update, a weekly freight podcast covering truckload market conditions for brokers and carriers.

Each episode breaks down spot rates paid to carriers, contract rate trends, capacity shifts, lane-level movement and the market signals shaping freight pricing. Dean also shares insights from DAT’s forecasting and rate benchmarking models to explain what’s happening now and what may come next.

Watch previous episodes and subscribe to the newsletter at dat.com/podcast.