Trucking

By Daryl Delano -- Logistics Management, 9/1/1998

Over the past 12 months, overall average trucking prices have risen by 2.6%. Almost all of that increase has been concentrated in the LTL sector. During that period, average truckload prices have risen just 0.9%, but LTL prices have surged by 7.0%. We're forecasting overall average prices for motor freight to be about 2.1% higher in 1998 than in 1997, but LTL average prices will rise at two to three times the overall inflation rate for all trucking services.

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

Less-than-truckload +2.1 +1.1 +7.0

Truckload +0.1 -0.2 +0.9

Agricultural - not local -0.8 -0.3 -0.2

General freight - local +0.3 +0.5 -2.3

Agricultural - local 0.0 0.0 0.0