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Freight Futures lane to watch today: East US Long Haul Van Average

The features allows SONAR users to see how sentiment evolves over time in the freight futures market.

Rates could break out either to the upside or downside.

Chicago to Atlanta should jump in September, LA to Dallas peaks in November, and Seattle to LA hits a high in December.

On Monday afternoon at Transparency19, Addison Armstrong, executive director of trucking freight futures at FreightWaves, moderated a conversation between Nodal Exchange, where freight futures are traded, DAT, whose rate indexes […]

J.B. Hunt wants to make freight marketplaces more efficient by making information more transparent.

The futures contracts will provide a way for carriers, shippers and third-party logistics providers to hedge their exposure to truckload spot rate volatility.

The Trucking Freight Futures Road Show rolled into the “Big D” – Dallas! Learn more about Trucking Freight Futures and what participants discussed in Dallas!

Options are a key hedging tool, because they can require a far smaller initial outlay for a company to protect itself from wild price swings.

Some $726 billion in annual spend on U.S. surface transportation faces daily price swings, but futures aim to mitigate the volatility.

FreightWaves, DAT, Nodal Exchange, and K-Ratio pitched trucking freight futures to a diverse group of financial institutions and media and tech companies on Wall Street on Wednesday.

It’s a tricky balance between risk and safety, but in the trucking world, before freight futures, there was no way to protect a company’x exposure.

This morning at MarketWaves18 in Grapevine, Texas, FreightWaves CEO Craig Fuller announced that freight futures will begin trading on March 29, 2018.

Trucking passes all five of Paul Newman’s tests for a successful futures market. That’s why we’re building a financially-settled freight futures contract with Nodal Exchange and DAT.