Hot States archive?

DAT load board have historical data?

 

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 . . . ?

 

http://www.dat.com/Resources/Trendlines.aspx

 

What kind of trailer you pulling?

 

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.

 

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.