The DOL also upwardly adjusted trucking’s employment stats for September by more than 5,000 jobs, erasing the originally reported 3,600-job loss and replacing it with a 1,800-job gain.
September’s revision changes the trucking employment landscape for 2016, with October’s gain now marking four straight months of solid gains.
The U.S. economy as a whole in October added 161,000 jobs. The country’s unemployment rate dropped a tenth of a percentage to 4.9 percent.
Employment in the for-hire trucking industry totaled 1463.9 million jobs in October, according to the DOL. That number does not take into account private fleet employment.
The transportation and warehousing sector as a whole added 7,500 jobs in the month, while manufacturing lost 5,000 jobs and construction added 11,000.