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0 1 7 minutes read Welcome to the WHAT THE TRUCK?!? newsletter. In this issue, skyrocketing lumber prices, where’s the Tesla Semi, two brokerage bankruptcies and more. Will it fall under $3? SONAR Downhill skiing in spring The Truckstop.com seven-day dry van rate per mile continues its three-plus-weeklong slide, falling another 4 cents to $3.04. Although rates are declining, both freight volumes and capacity have remained stable. According to the Outbound Tender Reject Index in SONAR, carriers are still rejecting more than 1 in 4 loads. “Spot rates were roughly 30% to 70% higher year-over-year throughout the first quarter. Rates are 80% higher in the latest week.” FreightWaves’ Human capital With drivers still in short supply, carriers are having to increase wages by as much as 20% in some cases to help fill the seats. According to TCA data, insurance costs as a percentage of revenue jumped 16% in the first two months of ’21. Some analy ....
NASA s Ingenuity helicopter completed its first flight on Mars on April 19, 2021 (Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech) NASA made history on April 19, 2021, by conducting the first controlled flight of an aircraft on another planet. In what is being described as a Wright brothers moment, the tissue-box-sized Ingenuity gradually ascended to an altitude of 9.8 feet (3 meters) above the surface of Mars and hovered for 30 seconds before gracefully descending to land on its four legs. Since it was impossible to send real-time instructions, Ingenuity s short flight was autonomous piloted by onboard guidance, navigation, and control systems running algorithms developed by NASA s Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL) scientists. Though the monumental event occurred at 3:34 a.m. EDT, it took about 4 hours to obtain the data and images beamed from the Mars Perseverance rover to NASA s Deep Space Network (DSN) confirming its success. “Like the Wright brothers at Kitty Hawk, we know that our ....