Bureau of Labor Statistics

Truck transportation employment ranks rebound 

Truck transportation jobs have rebounded sharply from the low levels reported a month ago, when the closure of Yellow Corp. resulted in a big decline in employment.

When the Bureau of Labor Statistics released its August report in early September, jobs in the truck transportation sector showed a decline of 36,700. That was largely attributed to the collapse of Yellow in late July and early August. 

But the BLS report for September jobs, released Friday, shows that almost half that original...

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Truck transportation jobs plummet in August

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Truck transportation jobs plummeted in August, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, with the...

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Recent estimates on transportation employment likely higher than reality

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Recent data on employment in the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ transportation and warehousing sector...

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Feds call attention to maritime ‘near misses’

WASHINGTON — Federal officials are pushing the U.S. maritime industry to submit to the government information on incidents that had nearly resulted in vessel collisions as a way to improve safety.

The Safe Maritime Transportation System (SafeMTS), a database that will store voluntary “near-miss” incidents, is being developed through an interagency agreement between the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) and the U.S. Maritime Administration (MarAd).

SafeMT...

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After declines and revisions, US truck jobs now below October 2022 level

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Truck transportation jobs in the U.S. did something in June and July that they hadn’t done since the...

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Truck transportation employment moves up and down in same month

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The number of truck transportation jobs in the latest monthly Bureau of Labor Statistics report was...

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Truck transportation jobs aren’t afraid of heights; they rose again in April

Freight recession notwithstanding, the truck transportation sector in the U.S. is continuing to add jobs.

In the report released Friday for April data, the seasonally adjusted jobs total for the truck transportation sector rose 3,000 jobs, to 1,612,500 jobs. That came after a downward adjustment from the initially reported number for March, down 2,500 jobs to 1,609,50 jobs. 

The end result is that a month ago, the Bureau of Labor Statistics was reporting that there were 1,612,000 jobs. The total...

Trucking slowdown? No sign of it in March employment figures

After a decline in truck transportation jobs in February that seemed to signal the end of the long, almost unbroken post-pandemic climb in trucking employment, the jobs total in that sector reversed course in March and headed higher yet again.

Seasonally adjusted jobs in March, according to statistics from the Bureau of Labor Statistics released Friday morning, rose to 1,612,000 jobs in March. That is up 5,700 jobs from the revised figure for February, which was 1,606,300 jobs. The initial...

Decline in truck transportation jobs 3rd biggest in last decade

The job losses suffered by the truck transportation sector in February have almost no precedent in the last 10 years, except for the massive drop in April 2020 and a similar drop almost 10 years ago.

Bureau of Labor Statistics data reported Friday showed the truck transportation sector saw a decline of 8,500 jobs in February, coming in at 1,599,900 on a seasonally adjusted basis. 

In the downloadable data provided by BLS in its report, a review of every month going back to January 2013 turns up...

More workers in truck transportation in 2022 than earlier estimate

The January employment report of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, released in early February, is watched not just for the change in jobs numbers from December, as is the case in the other 11 months of the year.

More importantly for labor economists, annual revisions to the underlying model are implemented and they can result in big swings in the estimates of employment levels in some sectors. And that is what happened in truck transportation and warehousing in the figures released Friday. 

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