Employment in the truck transportation sector in December continued recent, mostly downward trends, wrapping up a year in which total employment declined slightly.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported a drop of 800 jobs in the truck transportation sector for the month. That took total employment down to 1,545,900 jobs.
After a year in which jobs totals rose in six separate months and fell in the other six, the end result is that employment in the sector declined 5,900 jobs over the course of...