Management: Trends

Average diesel price
continues free fall
Jan 7, 2009

The average price of diesel continued its free fall last week, reaching the lowest it has been since June of 2005. Last week's price was $2.291 per gallon, 3.6 cents less than the week before...

December Class 8 truck orders lowest in 6 years
Jan 7, 2009

Total net orders for Class 8 trucks in December totaled 8,775 units, the weakest monthly order activity since mid-2002, according to information from FTR Associates, Nashville IN...

Navistar nears record sales in 2008
Jan 5, 2009

Increased 2008 sales to the US military drove Navistar International Corp annual revenue up 20 percent to $14.7 billion, helping to produce a profit for the year and nearing record sales, according to Navistar information....

FTR 2009 forecast
on downward trend
Dec 30, 2008

FTR Associates is projecting further downward economic trends for the trucking industry in 2009, according to FTR information. "The forecast continues to deteriorate," FTR said in a news release. ...

Diesel price drops to 2005 levels
Dec 30, 2008

The average price of diesel fell to $2.327 per gallon last week, the lowest price since June of 2005, according to Department of Energy data....

Truck tonnage
index increases
Dec 24, 2008

The American Trucking Associations (ATA) advanced seasonally adjusted For-Hire Truck Tonnage Index increased 1.7 percent in November, marking the first month-to-month improvement since June 2008. ...

ATRI analyzes
trucking costs
Dec 23, 2008

Total aggregate operational mean costs of trucking average $1.73 cents per mile or $83.68 per hour, according to an analysis sponsored by the American Transportation Research Institute (ATRI) Advisory Committee....

Diesel price slides
over five cents
Dec 23, 2008

The average price of diesel fell 5.6 cent to $2.366 per gallon last week, according to the Department of Energy. Ultra low sulfur diesel was $2.373 per gallon, 5.7 cents lower than the week before....

Oil product deliveries
fall in November
Dec 22, 2008

November oil product deliveries fell 7.4 percent from a year ago to the lowest November level since 1998, according to the American Petroleum Institute's (API) Monthly Statistical Report. ...

ATA: Study fails to consider
new truck emission reductions
Dec 18, 2008

A study of 31,135 trucking workers that indicated they showed an elevated risk of lung cancer with increasing years of work does not accurately portray today’s industry, Glen Kedzie, vice-president and environmental affairs counsel, American Trucking Associations, said in a letter to Bulk Transporter...

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