The Department of Transportation鈥檚 freight transportation services index fell 2.4% in November from a year earlier, DOT said Wednesday.
January 14, 2009BusinessGovernment
Consumer Confidence Improves
U.S. consumer confidence improved this month, according to the Reuters/University of Michigan鈥檚 preliminary monthly consumer sentiment index released Tuesday.
January 16, 2009BusinessFuelGovernment
CPI Falls 0.7% in December; Gained 0.1% for Year
Consumer prices fell 0.7% in December led by declining energy costs and slowing the declines of previous months, the Labor Department said Friday.
January 16, 2009BusinessSafetyGovernment
TTNews.com Closed for Martin Luther King Day
Transport Topics Online will be closed Monday for the Martin Luther King Jr. Day holiday. Please check back on Tuesday, Jan. 19, for the latest trucking and freight transportation news.
January 15, 2009BusinessGovernment
Philadelphia Fed Factory Index Shrinks
Manufacturing levels in the Philadelphia region contracted in January, the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia said Thursday. It was the 13th month of contraction in the last 14 months.
January 15, 2009Government
Producer Prices Fall 1.9% in December
Prices paid to U.S. producers fell 1.9% in December, the Labor Department said Thursday.
January 15, 2009BusinessGovernment
Business Inventories See Third Straight Month of Decline
Business inventories fell 0.7% in November, the third consecutive month of decline, the Commerce Department said Wednesday.
January 14, 2009BusinessSafetyGovernment
ATA Names 2009-2010 America鈥檚 Road Team
American Trucking Associations has named the 18 truck-driver captains of its 2009-2010 America鈥檚 Road Team.
January 14, 2009BusinessGovernment
Retail Sales Plunge 2.7% in December
Retail sales plunged more than twice as forecast in December, falling 2.7% from the previous month, the Commerce Department said Wednesday.
January 14, 2009GovernmentBusinessSafety
Opinion: Assault on Independents Threatens Trucking
If you wanted to shore up a beleaguered industry, would you do it by creating a new threat? Of course not, but that鈥檚 exactly what some U.S. policymakers seem ready to do to the already devastated U.S. trucking industry.
January 13, 2009