Tag: Trucking Index

For-Hire Trucking Index in September at Highest Mark Since March 2011

For-Hire Trucking Index in September at Highest Mark Since March 2011

| October 13, 2017

The latest release of ACT’s For-Hire Trucking Index indicated that September’s Productivity reading, a measure of industry utilization, advanced again sequentially, and marked the highest level reported since March 2011. “Seasonally adjusted, the productivity reading of 63 was up from 61.6 in August and the 57.3 year-to-date average,” noted Tim Denoyer, ACT Research’s Vice President […]

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July’s For-Hire Trucking Index Surges 20 Points

July’s For-Hire Trucking Index Surges 20 Points

| August 18, 2017

Big news in the For-Hire Trucking arena where the ACT Research Index indicated that July’s volume reading advanced for the seventh consecutive month to a score of 57.1 While the For-Hire Trucking Index is down from June, the freight index was almost 20 points above the reading in the same month last year. Six percent […]

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