Industry News Updates

Business, Equipment

Trucking Is the Line Between Other Industries

Michael Freeze reflects on a recent podcast conversation about the trucking industry and logistics.

January 29, 2021

Trucking Industry Revenue Topped $700 Billion in 2017, ATA Report Shows

The U.S. trucking industry generated $700.3 billion in economic activity in 2017, according to American Trucking Associations’ American Trucking Trends 2018 report released Aug. 20.

August 20, 2018
Business

Service Industries Expand at Slowest Pace Since 2014

Service industries expanded in January at the slowest pace in nearly two years, raising the risk that persistent weakness in manufacturing is starting to spread to the rest of the U.S. economy.

February 3, 2016
Business

Service Industries Grow at Slower Pace in November

Service industries in the United States expanded in November at the slowest pace in six months, indicating malaise in manufacturing is impeding progress in other parts of the economy.

December 3, 2015
Business

Service Industries Expand at Fastest Pace Since 2005

Service industries in the U.S. expanded in July at the fastest pace since December 2005, showing the economy was building more momentum at the start of the second half of 2014.

August 5, 2014
Editorial, Business

Editorial: The Industry Poised

The value of an event such as the Mid-America Trucking Show is that it brings together a large piece of the entire trucking industry to one location.

April 7, 2014
Business

U.S. Service Industry Growth Slows in September

The service industry in the United States grew at a slower pace in September, according to the Institute for Supply Management’s nonmanufacturing index.

October 3, 2013
Editorial, Business

The 2010 MCE

As the trucking industry gathers in Phoenix for American Trucking Associations’ annual meeting, the national economic climate is much improved from the gloom that surrounded last October’s meeting in Las Vegas.

October 17, 2010