American Trucking Associations

The ATA’s advanced Seasonally Adjusted (SA) For-Hire Truck Tonnage Index, for February, matched February, at 115.3 (2015=100), which was slightly revised from an initial reading of 115.5. January saw a 0.6% increase and was preceded by a 0.9% gain in December, to finish 2021.

This objective laid out by the ATA’s top executive is very timely, considering that the national average price per gallon, for diesel gasoline, has topped the $4 mark over the last few weeks, coupled with both WTI and Brent Crude prices seeing steep increases over the same period, too, due, in large part to the Russia-Ukraine conflict.

There was no shortage of feedback stemming from President Biden’s comments about the ocean shipping sector made during his State of the Union (SOTU) address earlier this week.

Yellow Corp., which controls 10% of the nation’s less-than-truckload (LTL) capacity as one of longest-operating trucking companies in America, is addressing the nation’s shortage of truck drivers head on and in house. Yellow is adding two new driving academies to its stable of 14 schools to prepare the next generation of professional truck drivers for careers in transportation.

The ATA’s advanced Seasonally Adjusted (SA) For-Hire Truck Tonnage Index, for January, at 115.5 (2015=100), saw a 0.6% increase, following a 0.9% December gain.

The federal government is looking into speeding up the process in which Commercial Driver’s Licenses (CDLs) are issued. At the same time, the federal government ruled against revisions to the hours-of-service (HOS) requirements, citing that safety groups gave no basis for changes that would have provided more flexibility to drivers.

The ATA’s advanced Seasonally Adjusted (SA) For-Hire Truck Tonnage Index, for December, at 114.7 (2015=100), saw a 1% increase, following a 0.5% November gain, to 113.5.

By a 6-3 margin with all six conservative judges ruling in tandem, the Supreme Court issued a much-anticipated decision against the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s (OSHA) “vaccine or test” Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS).

The ATA’s advanced Seasonally Adjusted (SA) For-Hire Truck Tonnage Index for November—at 114.5 (2015=100)—increased 1.3%, following a 0.4% October gain.

The trucking industry is suing over President Joe Biden’s vaccine policy that requires private sector employers with over 100 employees to be vaccinated against COVID-19. The American Trucking Associations (ATA), along with the Louisiana Motor Truck Association, the Mississippi Trucking Association and the Texas Trucking Association, joined other business groups representing various facets of the supply chain in suing the Biden administration over its employer-based COVID-19 vaccine mandate.

The trucking industry is blasting President Joe Biden’s vaccine policy for not allowing an exemption from a federal mandate that requires private sector employers with over 100 employees to be vaccinated against COVID-19.

Paradoxically, truck drivers are both scarce and underutilized; optimizing drivers’ time can address both problems.

The decades-old truck driver shortage, now estimated at 80,000, is bad and getting worse because of the nationwide service worker shortage, early retirements, the global pandemic and other acute economic factors. That is up from 61,000 just three years ago, in 2018.

The decades-old truck driver shortage, now estimated at 80,000, is bad and getting worse because of the nationwide service worker shortage, early retirements, the global pandemic and other acute economic factors. That is up from 61,000 just three years ago, in 2018.

The ATA’s advanced Seasonally Adjusted (SA) For-Hire Truck Tonnage Index for September—at 112.9 (2015=100)—headed up 2.4%, following a 0.3% August increase (downwardly revised from an original reading of 0.5%). On a year-to-date basis through September, SA tonnage is flat. ATA said that this index is comprised mainly of contract freight rather than spot market freight.