Trucking

By Staff -- Logistics Management, 6/1/1999

The average price for hauling non-local agricultural products by truck soared 8.3% from March to April 1999. That one-month surge placed trucking rates for agricultural products up 8.6% above year-ago levels. Rates for hauling general freight by truck were much more stable in April. Less-than-truckload rates rose 0.4% from rates recorded the previous month and were up 8.4% from the corresponding period in 1998. Truckload rates were unchanged from March and were up just 0.6% from year-ago levels.

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

Less-than-truckload +0.4 +2.4 +8.4

Truckload 0.0 +0.5 +0.6

Agricultural - not local +8.3 +8.4 +8.6

General freight - local 0.0 +0.2 -1.5

Agricultural - local 0.0 0.0 0.0