Tag: freight transportation services index

Business
Market Watch
Capacity constraints, ATA’s tonnage index, trucking jobs, inventories to sales ratios and other industry financial news items are featured.
June 7, 2011
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Business
Journal
FMCSA wants EOBRs for interstate carriers, an HOS listening session, Obama proposes a budget for DOT and TMC bestows Silver Spark Plug Awards are among the industry news items featured.
March 6, 2011
In addition to eliminating logbooks, FMCSA’s proposal to require EOBRs would relieve interstate carriers of the current requirement to retain certain HOS documents, such as delivery and toll receipts.
Business
Finances
ATA tonnage index up, manufacturing growth continues, trucking adds jobs and other financial news items.
February 10, 2011
Since payroll employment hit bottom in March 2010, for-hire trucking companies have added 22,900 jobs, according to the U.S. Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Business
Finances
ATA index is up 5.0 percent over 2009 period, heavy truck orders surge and more financial news items are featured.
January 1, 2011
ATA’s Truck Tonnage Index: (Seasonally Adjusted; 2000=100)
Business
Finance
Truck tonnage rebounds, trucking job growth appears to stall, the manufacturing sector shows strength and many other financial news items are featured.
December 2, 2010
ATA’s Truck Tonnage Index (Seasonally Adjusted; 2000=100) Despite recovering a bit from its August decline, the American Trucking Associations’ seasonally adjusted for-hire tonnage index shows that demand has softened since a springtime surge.
Business
Finances
Freight demand continues to show volatility, GE offers lower-risk lease program and many more financial news items are featured.
October 1, 2010
ATA Chief Economist Bob Costello says that July’s tonnage data didn’t change his outlook for subdued growth for the remainder of 2010.
Business
Finances
Trucking adds jobs, manufacturing orders dip, tonnage index falls and much more industry financial news.
September 1, 2010
Trucking companies added 5,900 jobs in July, but trucking employment was still down 1.1 percent from July 2009, according to the U.S. Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Business
EPA revises emissions guidance
EPA revises emissions guidance, YRC to sell $70 million in notes, Navistar’s SuperTruck team details efforts and trucking employment rises in January.
March 10, 2010
Final briefs in the litigation over EPA’s SCR guidance are due April 9 to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, which could decide emissions technology at least in the near term depending on how it rules.
Business
Tonnage up 2.1% in December
The American Trucking Association’s advance seasonally adjusted For-Hire Truck Tonnage Index climbed 2.1 percent in December, final estimates from the 2007 Commodity Flow Survey how the nation’s freight transportation system transported 12.5 billion tons of raw material and finished goods and the Freight Transportation Services Index rose 1.8 percent in November.
February 1, 2010
ATA’s Truck Tonnage Index (Seasonally Adjusted; 2000=100) ATA Chief Economist Bob Costello believes that tonnage is moving in the right direction, but he continues to be cautious about the future.
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