The American Trucking Associations’ advanced seasonally adjusted For-Hire Trucking Tonnage Index jumped 2.3 percent to 126.0 in May, after falling 0.2 percent in April to 123.2, making it the highest level on record.
Trucking Logistics
Trucking is the dominant mode of domestic freight transportation in the United States. It is divided between for-hire trucking, composed of long-haul and regional truckload carriers and less-than-truckload carriers, and private, shipper-owned fleets. Smaller, niche operators include drayage truckers that haul intermodal containers from rail yards and seaports, and flatbed companies that handle heavy freight.
Press Releases
18 Jun 2013
The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has ordered E & K Trucking, based in Commerce City, Colo., to immediately cease its trucking operations...
18 Jun 2013
WASHINGTON — The trucking industry on Tuesday urged Congress to postpone the implementation of new hours of service rules
18 Jun 2013
Old Dominion Freight Line will increase its base rates for intrastate, interstate and cross-border lane charges, effective July 1.
18 Jun 2013
U.S. diesel prices fell for a fourth straight week in the week ending June 17, pushing prices to their lowest since July 30 of last year, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. Despite the overall decline, U.S. regions experienced mixed shifts in price changes.
17 Jun 2013
Maher Terminals said a fifth ship has been diverted to a nearby terminal as the Port of New York and New Jersey’s largest container facility struggles with congestion and delays for a second week.
14 Jun 2013
Penske Truck Leasing has opened its $4.2 million facility in the Eastern Iowa Industrial Center in Davenport, Iowa.
14 Jun 2013
Roadrunner Transportation Systems’ outbound, less-than-truckload service center operations have commenced in Kansas City, Mo.
14 Jun 2013
North American truckload pricing in May increased 1.4 percent from the same month in 2012, but fell 2.4 percent from April, according to the Cass Truckload Linehaul Index.
14 Jun 2013
Delays continued at Maher Terminals for a fifth consecutive day today, forcing truckers to wait in long lines at the Port
13 Jun 2013
The American Trucking Associations has applauded the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision today to reject two concession requirements in the Port of Los Angeles’ clean-trucks program.
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Jun 5, 2013 2:00PM EDT
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