Trucking

By Daryl Delano -- Logistics Management, 11/1/1998

Average prices within the broad trucking and courier services sector moved up 0.5% between August and September. Once again, this monthly increase was attributable almost entirely to price hikes in the less-than-truckload (LTL) category. Truckload average prices were unchanged over the month, but LTL prices rose an average of 1.9%. The price index for the composite trucking services sector was 2.8% higher in September 1998 than in September 1997.

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

Less-than-truckload +1.9 +4.8 +8.2

Truckload 0.0 -0.1 +0.7

Agricultural - not local -0.6 +0.2 -1.0

General freight - local 0.0 +2.1 -2.2

Agricultural - local 0.0 0.0 0.0