Tag: freight

Bill would fund freight projects with new shipping fee

Rep. Adam Smith, D.-Wash., has reintroduced legislation that would fund improvements in U.S. freight movement by tacking a 1 percent shipping fee on the total cost of domestic transport.

January 13, 2014

Survey: Carriers optimistic on near-term volume, rates

A sense of steady growth in the economy is producing increasingly positive expectations from trucking companies, especially smaller carriers, according to the fourth-quarter business outlook survey by Transport Capital Partners. The survey suggests the slow but upward growth of the economy is moving the freight market to a higher level.

December 12, 2013

Truck freight to see little near-term improvement, FTR Conference speakers say

The key economic indicators point to a freight market that probably will continue to improve over the next year or so but not necessarily enough to justify growth in carriers’ truck and trailer fleets, said speakers at the FTR Conference.

September 26, 2013

FTR Senior Consultant Noel Perry predicts that carriers’ average driver hiring needs will soar by 36 percent by 2020.

Report confirms restocking bolstered January freight

By all accounts, January was a strong month for freight, and now we know one of the big reasons why. Manufacturing and trade inventories at the end of January were up 1% from December. That’s the largest month-to-month gain since another 1% increase in May 2011. The increases were particularly strong at the retail and wholesale level, which saw month-to-month gains of 1.5% and 1.2%, respectively.

March 13, 2013

ATA Tonnage Index gains some lost ground

After falling 0.9 percent in August, the American Trucking Associations’ seasonally adjusted For-Hire Truck Tonnage Index rose 0.4 percent in September, bringing the index to 118.7.

October 24, 2012

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