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Analysis
Diesel map runs $2.16 wide: fill in the Lower Atlantic, not California
At $5.605 a gallon the Lower Atlantic is the cheapest pump in the country and California the priciest at $7.764 -- about $324 a fill-up apart on 150 gallons.
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Reefer's best-paying lane paid $12.50 a mile out of Delmarva last week
Short East Coast produce runs carried the per-mile premium while the long western hauls paid the biggest checks at a third of the rate.
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LTL rates jumped 4.5% in August while flatbed slipped 0.8%
Two freight segments that usually move together split in August, and less-than-truckload was the side with the pricing power.
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Diesel runs $1.69 a gallon cheaper in the Lower Atlantic than California
On a 150-gallon fill that spread is about $254, and both regions rose again in the week to 24 August.
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Follow the money: the beef quota that skips Argentina and lands on Brazil
Three hundred thousand tonnes were assigned to the one quota line Brazil ships under, and Argentina is barred from using it. The group best placed to fill it pleaded guilty to bribing officials to secure financing from Brazilian state banks, paid the largest single sum at the President's inauguration, and is now under criminal antitrust investigation by his Justice Department.
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Freight indices slipped again in July, but every segment sits above a year ago
Diesel's near-47% annual jump is the line eating those gains, while reefer and household-goods rates lead the year higher.
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LTL led July's freight retreat, down 4.6%, while truckload held near flat
The all-segment index fell 1.9%, but the weakness was concentrated in less-than-truckload; dry van and flatbed slipped about a point, and reefer firmed to $4.21 a mile.
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Reefer firms to $4.21 a mile as Delmarva produce lanes lead again
The week's top per-mile lanes are short Mid-Atlantic hauls, but the fattest paychecks are the runs one notch longer.
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Flatbed slipped 1.2% in July but held up better than the rest of freight
The specialised index is still up 9.4% on the year, the strongest twelve-month gain of any over-the-road segment bar LTL.
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Delmarva produce hauls topped reefer pay at $14 a mile in the week to 18 August
The national produce average slipped to $4.14 a mile, its second straight weekly decline, but short regional runs near the fields still paid multiples of the long westbound hauls.
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Delmarva-Baltimore paid $14 a mile, reefer's top lane in the week to 18 Aug
Produce's fattest per-mile rates were all short regional runs; the national average slipped about 1% to $4.14 but is up 9.1% on the year.
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Diesel jumps 19.7 cents to $5.454, Midwest hit hardest
New England barely moved while Midwest pumps rose nearly 5% in a week; the cheapest fuel is now in the Lower Atlantic and Gulf Coast.
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LTL rates fell 4.6% in July, the sharpest of any freight segment
It was the steepest monthly drop in the freight producer price index, though LTL is still up 10.7% on the year -- a bigger annual gain than truckload.
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Midwest diesel jumped 4.9% last week as regional fuel gaps widened
Every region rose, but from a 0.6% bump in New England to nearly 5% in the Midwest -- enough to change where a tank is worth filling.
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Every trucking freight segment fell in July
The all-trucking price index dropped 1.9%, with declines running from 0.3% in local work to 4.6% in less-than-truckload.
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LTL rates fell 4.6% in July, the steepest drop of any freight segment
Less-than-truckload led a broad July softening, though it is still 10.7% higher than a year ago.
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Diesel rose 3.7% last week to $5.45 a gallon nationally
The Midwest jumped most, up 4.9%, while New England barely moved and California topped $6.78.