I'm thrilled to announce that DAT has acquired Outgo. Factoring and payments are a natural extension of our core business and Outgo offers an industry leading FinTech solution. It also helps that their team is wonderful and an excellent culture fit at DAT. We are looking

Outgo went live in the DAT network around 4:30 eastern yesterday. Within 30 minutes, we beat the previous record for daily carrier applications. By the end of the day, the record for monthly applications was obliterated. Kary Jablonski and I will be talking with the DAT CEO

Let's go Outgo!!! x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

Great writeup by Grace Sharkey 🚛🤖💙

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The Matthew Leffler holding court at DAT Freight & Analytics Executive Symposium.

What can getting stuck behind a painfully slow group at a desert dog track in Phoenix teach you about slinging spot freight? I have no idea. But I do know that the DAT Freight & Analytics Executive Symposium is the single best event in freight and it's not even close. Thanks to our

Now that Secretary Road Rules has removed hundreds of thousands of drivers from the roads who can't recite all of War and Peace from memory, rates have certainly skyrocketed above $5/mile nationally. Let me check to verify.

Ken Adamo I tend to agree with Ken, I’m out here every week. I hear guys speaking both languages in the truckstops, their native and English. I’m sure there are some out here that don’t speak it well enough to be considered proficient. And I agree with enforcing the rule. However, how big

Rates are settling in a bit above prior year after roadcheck week.

Truck posts are just humming along

Load posts showing more of the road check week effect

Hearing that Savannah is heating up for outbound spot freight. Took a look and it checks out.

Spot rates are drifting back in line with the last couple years after roadcheck week and Memorial Day. This is yet another datapoint supporting the notion that markets are in equilibrium and looking for movement on the demand side to systemically trend upwards.

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Someone on LinkedIn randomly came at me out of the blue yesterday. His method of attack was a YouTube video mashup. I'm still unclear what point he was trying to make or what prompted him to go on offense. I swear that place is going feral.

Any day now we're going to see the foreign language fueled freight frenzy force rates fantastically forward in a furious feat of fate. Any day now...

Dry van contract rates haven't sequentially moved more than three cents per mile in over 17 months.