Trucking

By Daryl Delano -- Logistics Management, 6/1/1998

After a decline in March, the U.S. Labor Department's trucking price index rose by 0.4% in April. Average trucking prices have increased by 2.3% during the past 12 months. The two most important sub-categories of the trucking index--truckload and less-than-truckload prices--were both unchanged in April for the second month in a row. However, LTL inflation has subsided in recent months. Average LTL charges rose by 6.4% during 1997, but prices actually slid a bit between January and April.

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

Less-than-truckload 0.0 +2.5 +4.6

Truckload 0.0 +0.7 +1.2

Agricultural - not local 0.0 -0.1 +1.5

General freight - local +3.0 +0.8 -2.7

Agricultural - local 0.0 0.0 0.0