Trucking

By Staff -- Logistics Management, 3/1/2000

With gasoline prices up more than 64% between January 1999 and January 2000, the fact that average trucking and courier rates have risen only 2.6% during that same period may seem like a minor miracle. Indeed, rates for hauling local freight dropped 0.1% between January 1999 and January 2000. Rates for intercity freight during that period were up 2.7% owing to a 4.2% hike in LTL rates and a 0.9% rise in truckload rates. Excluding any fuel surcharges, we forecast overall trucking rates to rise 2.3% in 2000, after a 2.8% gain last year. % CHANGE VS.: 1 month ago 6 mos. ago 1 yr. ago

Less-than-truckload +1.1 +3.7 +4.2

Truckload +0.5 +0.5 +0.9

Agricultural - not local +0.7 +1.2 +3.4

General freight - local +0.4 -0.3 -0.1

Agricultural - local +2.6 +2.6 +2.6

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