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Jun 9, 2009

JOB LOSSES * USA - Fewer trucking ones in May

Washington,DC,USA -eTrucker -8 June 2009: -- For-hire trucking companies shed a little more than 8,000 jobs on a seasonally adjusted basis in May – the smallest number since October, according to preliminary data released by the Department of Labor... Payroll employment among for-hire trucking companies in May dropped 0.6 percent from April levels and 9.4 percent from May 2008 on a seasonally adjusted basis, according to preliminary figures released by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics on today, June 5. The latest numbers also reflect a slight downward revision in trucking employment levels for April... With the estimated 8,100 jobs lost in May, the trucking industry has lost more than 67,000 jobs since the end of 2008 – a decline of 5 percent... The BLS numbers reflect all payroll employment in for-hire trucking, but they don’t include trucking-related jobs in other industries, such as a truck driver for a private fleet... (Photo from carrievillines: Florida's trucker)

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Dec 7, 2007

Truckers Wait Out * USA - Flooding on I-5, at a cost of $4 million a day

Seattle,Wash,USA -The Seattle Post Intelligencer, by ANDREA JAMES -6 Dec 2007: -- The storm that hit the Puget Sound area Monday is having a devastating effect on commerce after swamping Interstate 5, the main artery that connects Seattle to Portland, and burying in mud several rail connections north and south of Seattle... With hundreds of trucks backed up, the Transportation Department has had to give certain goods priority. For example, the department is working with the Washington State Patrol and local communities to get emergency supplies to hospitals in greater Seattle via alternative routes... Independent truck driver Floyd Chase delivers building materials and shipping containers between Seattle and Portland. He waited around at the exit 71 stop on Tuesday... Chase estimates that he's losing $500 a day waiting for the highways to reopen... "I'm independent -- I'm responsible for the whole thing, the good and the bad," he said. "It's a matter of just sitting and waiting now, unless you want to go 400 miles out of your way, but at $3.50 a gallon, it's not going to pay off"... (Photo AP: Three people are seen on a ramp on the flooded I-5 freeway in Chehalis on Tuesday.)

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