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More than 4,000 carriers with five or more trucks closed their doors last year. It's enough to scare off any lender from giving you a loan to buy a truck
Read More →Retail sales posted a slight increase in March, while wholesale prices took a sharp jump
Read More →The American Trucking Assns.' for-hire Truck Tonnage Index released on Monday rose 0.7% for May as tonnage volumes increased slightly. The increase marked the first sequential rise in tonnage volumes since January
Read More →TransCore’s Freight Trends indicate that Oregon and Washington are seeing signs of an economic recovery
Read More →Growth in the U.S. manufacturing sector slowed in September to a 16-month low, according to the Institute for Supply Management survey of manufacturers
Read More →ChevronTexaco Corp., the nation's second biggest oil concern, is buying rival Unocal Corp., the ninth biggest U.S. oil and gas exploration and production company, for about $16.4 billio
Read More →The Truck Tonnage Index decreased 3.3 percent in March, corresponding with the modest economic slowdown that has appeared in other economic dat
Read More →After five straight months of increases, new orders for manufactured durable goods were down 1.1 percent, or $2.2 billion, in Ma
Read More →FTR Associates has released preliminary data showing December Class 8 total net orders for all major North American OEM's at 8775 units -- the weakest monthly order activity since mid-2002
Read More →An economist speaking to trucking executives last week said three different panels of economists believe the recession will end this quarter. A monthly survey of 51 economists published earlier this month by Blue Chip Economic Indicators say the Gross Domestic Product, the measure of the nation's economic activity, will turn positive in the third quarter
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