07-13-2009, 02:44 PM
No question trucking data is harder to compile from outside the industry because marketing departments do to much spin. Some of it for good reason.
YRC for example:
The company is going down the toilet and they are trying to fix it. However in the process of doing so people stop giving them freight for fear that things will get worse and you end up with a bunch of freight in their system when they go under. (this is really bad)
So with poor numbers (more then just revenue) customers give you less freight. It is a spiraling effect that most carriers never recover from.
Therefore raw data is hard to find that is accurate.
With that being said the general data is out there. I am on the look out for a regular place to find those for ya.
Vllad
YRC for example:
The company is going down the toilet and they are trying to fix it. However in the process of doing so people stop giving them freight for fear that things will get worse and you end up with a bunch of freight in their system when they go under. (this is really bad)
So with poor numbers (more then just revenue) customers give you less freight. It is a spiraling effect that most carriers never recover from.
Therefore raw data is hard to find that is accurate.
With that being said the general data is out there. I am on the look out for a regular place to find those for ya.
Vllad