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Monday Money: Trucking, economic indicators in 5 slides
Truckload linehaul rates spiked in March, with the Cass Truckload Linehaul Index showing a 6 percent year-over-year increase â the largest in 35 months â and setting a new high. Intermodal traffic also continued to rise and a Federal Reserve survey confirms transportation demand has strengthened. Industrial production likewise has increased.
April 21, 2014
Business
Con-way Freight, ODFL, YRC Freight commit to uShip marketplace
Online freight marketplace uShip announced three top national LTL carriers â Con-way Freight, Old Dominion Freight Line and YRC Freight â have committed to uShipâs shipper-direct LTL spot rate marketplace.
April 17, 2014
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Diesel price continues fall, edges down fraction of a cent
The national average price for a gallon of on-highway diesel fell again in the week ended April 14, but its descent slowed some, dropping just seven-tenths of a cent to $3.952, according to the Department of Energyâs Energy Information Administration.
April 14, 2014
Business
Diesel price expected to slide this summer by more than a dime
The average price of diesel should fall more than dime over the course of the summer, according to projections released this week by the Department of Energy, who expects diesel to average $3.87 a gallon this summer.
April 11, 2014
Business
Post.Bid.Ship: a spot market on steroids
In the early 1990s, Jarret Hamstreet started working at his fatherâs trucking company as a child. In the mid-to-late 90s, he noticed Internet-based load boards begin to appear. Later on, he decided to launch his own using the Priceline model for dynamic bidding and pricing.
April 10, 2014
Business
Diesel continues downward slide, drops another 1.6 cents
The national average price for a gallon of on-highway diesel fell again in the week ended April 7, down another 1.6 cents to $3.959, according to the Department of Energyâs Energy Information Administration.
April 7, 2014
Business
Class 8 orders see another solid month in March
Class 8 orders in March were solid again in March, rounding out a quarter that points toward a growth cycle for truck sales, according to data released last week by firms FTR and ACT Research.
April 7, 2014
Business
Trucking adds 3,300 jobs in March; national unemployment holds at 6.7 percent
The for-hire trucking industry added 3,300 payroll jobs in March on a seasonally adjusted basis, according to the monthly employment report released April 4 by the Department of Laborâs Bureau of Labor Statistics.
April 4, 2014
Business
Trucking conditions decline, but still âgood newsâ for fleets, FTR says
FTRâs monthly Trucking Conditions Index fell in February to a reading of 7.54, a slight drop from Januaryâs reading, but the index still âreflects good news for trucking fleets,â FTR says.
April 2, 2014
Business
March sees rate boom, dry van and flatbed hit record highs
Per-mile spot market rates in all three segments â flatbed, reefer, van â soared upward in March, according to data released April 1 by loadboard Internet Truckstop. Flatbed and dry van rates hit all-time highs in the time Internet Truckstop has been keeping records, since 2005.
April 1, 2014
Business
Diesel price slides again, down nearly 5 cents in three weeks
The national average price for a gallon of on-highway diesel dropped for the third consecutive week in the week ended March 31, falling another 1.3 cents to $3.975, according to the Department of Energy. The price is now down 4.6 cents since the week ended March 17.
April 1, 2014
Business
Diesel dips below $4 as US average price falls 1.5 cents
The national average price for a gallon of on-highway diesel dipped below $4 in the week ended March 24 â barely.
March 24, 2014
Business
Class 8 orders in February up 30 percent year over year
The number of Class 8 truck orders in February rose 30 percent from the same month last year, building off preliminary data released earlier this month showing the rolling three-month period ending in February was one of the best three-month stretches for orders since early 2006.
March 21, 2014
Business
NAFTA trade grows in 2013 as trucking moved $679 billion in trade freight
Trucking moved $679 billion in goods between the U.S. and its North American Free Trade Agreement partners Canada and Mexico in 2013, but its overall share of NAFTA trade fell slightly from 2012 â two-tenths of a percent â to 59.7 percent, according to numbers released this week by the Department of Transportationâs Bureau of Transportation Statistics.
March 21, 2014
Business
Mesilla Valley Transportation chooses TCG for profitability analysis
Transportation Costing Group (TCG), providers of activity-based costing and profitability management tools for truckload and less-than-truckload motor carriers, announced that Mesilla Valley Transportation has chosen and implemented its Truckload Cost Information System (TL/CIS) to develop more effective profitability analyses. âWe chose TL/CIS over other options because this system gives us a fully costed and highly detailed [âŚ]
March 20, 2014
Business
Con-way raising rates 5.4 percent
Con-way Freight (No. 4 in the CCJ Top 250) announced this week it will be implementing a general rate increase of an average 5.4 percent to all of its non-contract business, starting March 31.
March 19, 2014
Business
Truck tonnage climbs in February, still digging out of Jan. hole, ATA says
The amount of tonnage carried by the for-hire trucking industry rose 2.8 percent in February from January, jumping back after a cold and snowy January caused tonnage to dip nearly 5 percent in that month, the American Trucking Association reported this week.
March 18, 2014
Business
Diesel price falls 1.8 cents in biggest drop in two months
The national average price for a gallon of on-highway diesel fell in the week ended March 17 to $4.003 a gallon, according to the DOE. Thatâs a 1.8-cent drop and the largest week-to-week decline since the week ended Jan. 13, when the price fell 2.4 cents.
March 18, 2014
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