Floods, bad weather pushed freight availability down in April

Freight volumes on the spot market were down — out of trend — 16 percent in April of this year from April 2012, according to the DAT North American Freight Index, which says that bad ...

Trucking employment surged in April as unemployment dropped

The for-hire trucking industry added 11,700 jobs in April, according to preliminary data released this week by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. This is the largest month to month increase since February 2012, when ...

Indicators: Trucking employment continues rise, Class 8 orders strong

In economic barometers for the trucking industry released in the past week, trucking employment continued its years-long gains and Class 8 orders improved both month over month and year over year. The for-hire trucking industry added ...

Trucking employment continues years-long gains

The number of jobs in the trucking industry fell swiftly during and after the most recent recession in 2008 and 2009, bottoming out in March 2010. Since, however, trucking employment has gained big, and that ...

Indicators: Shipper conditions improve, tonnage rebounds

FTR Associates Shippers Conditions Index improved in October from September, but the research firm forecasts that conditions at the end of 2012 and into 2013 will worsen. A combination of tightening regulations on the trucking ...

Equipment finance booms, projected for growth

After returning to nearly pre-recession levels in 2012, says the Equipment Leasing & Finance Foundation, the U.S. private and public sectors are on pace to finance more than $742 billion in equipment acquisitions in 2013, ...

Indicators: Trucking sees employment gains

Trucking companies added 2,500 payroll jobs in November, announced the Bureau of Labor Statistics on Friday, in a month where the overall economy 146,000 nonfarm jobs. The unemployment rate dropped to 7.7 percent in November ...

Detroit Free Press: Carrier owner OK with higher taxes