HydroPhi Technologies Group Inc. (fka HPTG)

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Cheaper diesel, which obviously has lowered carriers’ costs in recent months, has also diverted would-be rail freight to truck freight, helping increase truckload demand, Broughton said.

The industry should continue consolidating via acquisitions and mergers, he said, and consolidation could be “poised to dramatically increase.

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Drivers in the coming years will remain hard to come by, but truckload rates could climb as much as 9 percent for some carriers in the next 18 or so months, said Donald Broughton, trucking industry economist and managing director of Avondale Partners.