US: ATA freight index 0.2% lower in August

The American Trucking Associations' (ATA) advance seasonally adjusted (SA) For-Hire Truck Tonnage Index declined 0.2% in August after falling a revised 0.8% in July 2011. The July decrease was less than the 1.3% the ATA reported on 23 August 2011. The latest drop put the SA index at 114.4 (2000=100) in It’s time to log … Continued

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• September 29, 2011