Truck tonnage index down 2.5% in April

23 May by Vitaliy Dadalyan

Truck tonnage index down 2.5% in April

Index off 1.8% from year earlier, ATA reports.

American Trucking Assns.’ advanced seasonally adjusted (SA) For-Hire Truck Tonnage Index slipped 2.5% in April, following a 1.1% decline during March. (March’s percentage decrease was slightly more than reported on April 18, ATA said.) In April, the index equaled 134 (2000=100), down from 137.4 in March. The all-time high was 142.7 in February 2016.

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