American Trucking Associations’ advanced seasonally adjusted (SA) For-Hire Truck Tonnage Index increased 0.1% in July, following a 4.4% drop during June. In July, the index equaled 138.5, up from 138.4 in June. Compared with July 2016, the SA index increased 2.3%. In June, the Truck Tonnage Index rose 1.2% on a year-over-year basis. Year-to-date, compared […]
American Trucking Associations (ATA) has named 20 professional truck drivers, including Captain John Gaddy of Asbury, N.J., to the 2017-2018 America’s Road Team, an elite group of professionals who serve as trucking industry ambassadors. Gaddy is a driver for Carbon Express in Wharton, N.J. and was the New Jersey Motor Truck Association‘s 2015 Driver of the Year. “There are 3.5 […]
The seasonally adjusted (SA) For-Hire Truck Tonnage Index surged 8.2% in November, following a 0.3% drop during October according to the American Trucking Associations (ATA). In November, the index equaled 142.4 (2000=100), up from 131.6 in October. The all-time high was 144 in February. Compared with November 2015, the SA index increased 5.7%, the first year-over-year […]
The American Trucking Associations (ATA) has announced it has named eleven executives to the federation’s Infrastructure Funding Task Force. The members of Infrastructure Funding Task Force are: Jim Burg, president and CEO, James Burg Trucking Co. (co-chair) David Congdon, CEO, Old Dominion Freight Line (co-chair) Mike Ducker, president and CEO, FedEx Freight Eric Fuller, COO, […]
