Bureau of Labor Statistics

For the first time in six months, the number of truck transportation jobs have declined from the prior month.

Truck transportation jobs, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ report for April, fell by 300 jobs, to 1,557,800. It marked the seventh consecutive month of relatively small movement in the total employment number following two years of wild swings driven by the pandemic, the historically strong freight market that followed, the subsequent freight recession and the midyear 2023...

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Jobs in the truck transportation sector mostly treaded water in February while warehouse jobs continued their long slide, according to the monthly report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

In the truck transportation sector, the loss of 300 jobs was the smallest one-month change up or down since August 2022, when an increase of 300 jobs was recorded. The total for February was 1,551,200 jobs.

More significantly, on a seasonally adjusted basis, the January figure of 1,551,500 jobs was down 4,200...

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Truck transportation jobs continued a slow recovery from the depths of the freight recession and the...

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Employment in the truck transportation sector in October recorded its fourth decline in the past...

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