Trucking

By Daryl Delano -- Logistics Management, 2/1/1998

Average prices within the broad trucking and courier services sector were up a scant 0.1 percent during December. Inflation in motor freight prices for the year 1997 totaled 2.5 percent. The less-than-truckload sector, where prices rose 6.3 percent for the year on average, accounted for most of 1997's motor transport inflation. Truckload prices, by contrast, rose a slight 1.1 percent last year. We're looking for slower economic growth to push inflation in trucking services to just below 2.0 percent during 1998.

% CHANGE VS.: 1 month ago 6 mos. ago 1 yr. ago

Less-than-truckload 0.0 +1.7 +5.6

Truckload -0.1 +0.4 +0.6

Agricultural - not local -0.1 +0.7 +1.5

General freight - local +1.8 -4.3 -3.3

Agricultural - local 0.0 0.0 0.0