The amount of freight carried by the nation’s for-hire transportation industry increased in March from the month before, according to new Transportation Department figures, rising for the second consecutive month to reach an all-time high.
Analysis: Mining for Economic Gold
There are largely overlooked nuggets of information buried in the numbers about the economy and trucking that could be the most telling sign of where conditions are headed, writes Evan Lockridge in his Econ Watch column from the March issue of Heavy Duty Trucking magazine.
