Hot States archive?

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  1. double yellow

    double yellow Road Train Member

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    Is there an online archive where you can look up load/truck ratios for specific weeks? E.G. the 38th week of the year for 2003-2013?
     
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  3. blairandgretchen

    blairandgretchen Road Train Member

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    DAT load board have historical data?
     
  4. double yellow

    double yellow Road Train Member

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    They have it and show annual comparisons for periods 2 weeks past. But I can't seem to access current data on the "plus" plan & am told you need a $250/month subscription to start getting the truly useful info from them...
     
  5. blairandgretchen

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    Ouch. That's kinda on the edge of my educational budget.

    Though if you upped to the $250 plan for a month and pulled a whole swag of reports . . . ?
     
  6. double yellow

    double yellow Road Train Member

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    Yeah that's what I was alluding to in post 3. I can see trends from last month or perhaps 2 weeks ago, but I can't look ahead to see where I should try to position myself over the coming week...
     
  7. gokiddogo

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    What kind of trailer you pulling?
     
  8. rollin coal

    rollin coal Road Train Member

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    No-one really has that sort of info. Best thing you can do is keep a detailed ledger. Every load you haul. Whatever details you want. I put pro #, rate to my truck, beginning odo, ending odo - fuel is in a separate ledger. I can look at most of them and recall when, where, what so don't put that info in there. If my memory is fuzzy quick check thru logs clears things up. The ledger documents trends. They don't always start and end at the same times but you will see patterns. You also know exactly where you stand on everything. IMO if you're not keeping some sort of load ledger you're pissing in the wind without good data to look at.
     
  9. double yellow

    double yellow Road Train Member

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    A 16 year-old vented air ride dry van

    I keep all sorts of info on my own loads, but I want to know what part of the country is popping in late september. Then early October, then mid October, etc...

    I mean right now I'm keeping track of what the hot states were every week since July -- and maybe that'll be useful next year, but I'd think people have looked at this before so I could see where the projected hot states will be...
     
  10. rollin coal

    rollin coal Road Train Member

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    I don't know where a little guy would get info like that. The big logistics operations seem to know this stuff in advance or at least think they do. I just go by off the cuff comments I see posted here in TTR and what I know to be the case in the lanes I run. The longer you do this the more knowledge/experience you can build on. I don't think there is a fast and easy answer to your question.
     
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