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TRUCKING STATISTICS * USA & Canada - ATA: Tonnage declines, but fleets are busy
Arlington,VA.USA -Truck News (CAN) -Oct 4, 2011: -- US truck tonnage dropped 0.2% in August, following a revised 0.8% decline in July, according to the most recent figures from the American Trucking Associations (ATA)... Compared to August 2010, seasonally-adjusted tonnage was up 5.2% in August and 4.5% year-over-year in July... Said ATA chief economist Bob Costello, US truck fleets have about as much freight as they can currently handle...
* USA - Intermodal Traffic Rises 4.4% for Week
(Photo by Bruce Harmon/Trans Pixs)
Washington,DC,USA -Transport Topics -7 Oct 2011: -- U.S. intermodal traffic rose 4.4% last week from a year ago, led by an increase in container traffic, the Association of American Railroads said... Container traffic rose 5.4% to 215,864 units, while trailer traffic dipped 1% to 35,000 units... Railroad carloads excluding intermodal rose 4.7%, to 312,170 units, AAR said in its weekly report... Railroad volume is considered an important economic indicator. Intermodal traffic, which tends to be higher-valued merchandise than bulk commodities, uses trains for the long haul and trucks for the shorter distance at either end of the trip...* Canada - For-hire motor carriers boost revenues but higher costs cuts into first quarter profits
Ottawa,ONT,CAN -Truck News, by Lou Smyrlis -Oct 3, 2011: -- Canadian trucking companies earned operating revenue of $10.1 billion in the first quarter, up 5.2% from the same quarter a year earlier... During the same period, these firms reported operating expenses of $9.2 billion, compared with $8.6 billion in the first quarter of 2010. Fuel expenses increased 15.2%, mostly as a result of higher prices as consumption rose 2.5%... Operating profit fell 4.7% to $936 million, as the increase in operating expenses (+6.3%) outpaced that of operating revenue. Companies whose main activity was long distance trucking were responsible for the decline. Their operating profits were $392 million in the first quarter, down from the $527 million in profits they earned during the same quarter a year earlier...
* USA - TransCore Finds Truck Revenue, Rates Up 10 Percent
(Photos: Bill Warner Jr's customized truck. Out of Circleville, WV, took five years to fully restore a Ford Aeromax LTL 9000 to its original condition, because it's the truck model he and his late father started their trucking careers with)
Houston,TXS,USA -The Journal of Commerce, by William B. Cassidy -Oct 7, 2011: -- Survey finds carrier pricing, sales rose in first half as freight shifted to spot market... For-hire truckload carriers increased their revenue 10 percent in the first half of the year compared to the same period in 2010, according to a TransCore survey... The survey underscores the resurgence among truckload carriers since the recession, an improvement attributed primarily to rate increases... TransCore’s second annual Carrier Benchmark Survey also documented a shift toward the spot market among carriers, owner-operators and asset-based brokers... Carrier revenue jumped 18 cents per mile to $2.03 per mile, or $17,808 per truck per month, the load board operator and trucking services company said. However, miles per truck and loaded miles per truck were almost flat year-over-year, increasing only 0.1 and 0.2 percent, respectively, the survey found. That indicates higher revenue came mainly from rates. Spot market rates rose in the first half of the year, particularly refrigerated and flatbed rates...Labels: trucking statistics
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