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Trucking Dominates Freight Market

Trucking dominates freight market in 28th edition of the Transportation Statistics Annual Report. Trucks transported 12 billion tons in 2019, or 67% of total domestic freight volume, about 10 times more than that of rail…

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Class 8 Orders Remain Strong

Class 8 orders remain strong during the last three months of 2022 and trucking industry data cruncher ACT Research sees that trend continuing. The pattern should lead to bigger backlogs, higher production of heavy-duty trucks…

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Diesel Conversion ‘Daunting’

The prospect of converting the nation’s trucking fleet from diesel to battery-electric power in order to meet carbon emissions reduction goals presents several major challenges, according to newly released research. The American Transportation Research Institute…

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Truckers Overlook Tires

Driving a vehicle safely is a combination of several abilities. Hand-eye coordination and fine motor skills are likely a couple of the most important, but there’s a host of others. For example, vehicle maintenance; namely…

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Truck Driver Pay Rising

ATA surveys shows truck driver pay rising. Every data point was higher in the first survey of driver pay conducted by the research arm of the American Trucking Associations (ATA) since before the pandemic.

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Freight Shipments Climbing

Freight shipments climbing with a sequential uptick in trucking shipments during the 2Q. Freight payments data released in late July showed a sequential uptick in trucking shipments during the second quarter, reversing the declining trend…

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Rising CPI Pressuring Fleet Operations

Rising CPI pressuring fleet operations, effecting cost of financing equipment and other cost such as maintenance and repair. Knowing how to navigate this, as well as understanding a fleet’s options, can potentially save millions toward the organization’s bottom line.

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Closures Rising For Small Truckers

Closures rising for small truckers. One of the hallmarks of the pandemic as it relates to trucking has been the unprecedented growth in the number of new, mostly small, for-hire trucking companies. Since July 2020…

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Fuel Driving Out Truckers

Fuel driving out truckers as survey shows rising cost of fuel present a mountainous climb to overcome for small carriers. Many small carriers who entered the trucking industry in 2020-21 are finding today’s challenges too

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Truck Tonnage Index Increased in June

ATA Truck Tonnage Index Increased in June 2022. American Trucking Associations’ advanced seasonally adjusted (SA) For-Hire Truck Tonnage Index increased 2.7% in June after rising 0.3% in May. In June, the index equaled 120.1 (2015=100) versus 116.9 in May.

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