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Truck tonnage - USA - Index rises 0.4
USA - eTrucker News, by By Lance Orr -4 Nov 2005: -- The American Trucking Associations’ advanced seasonally adjusted truck tonnage index rose 0.4 percent in September, after dropping straight through June, July and August... On a seasonally adjusted basis, the tonnage index rose to 113.9 from 113.5 in August. On a non-seasonally adjusted basis, the tonnage index fell 4.2 percent from August... Trucking serves as a barometer of the U.S. economy because it represents nearly 70 percent of tonnage carried by all modes of domestic freight transportation, including manufactured and retail goods... Trucks hauled 9.8 billion tons of freight in 2004. Motor carriers collected $671 billion dollars, or more than 87 percent of total revenues earned by all transport modes...
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