{"id":4131,"date":"2022-03-01T15:53:26","date_gmt":"2022-03-01T15:53:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/?p=4131"},"modified":"2022-03-01T15:53:26","modified_gmt":"2022-03-01T15:53:26","slug":"american-truck-tonnage-index-rose-0-6-in-january","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/american-truck-tonnage-index-rose-0-6-in-january\/","title":{"rendered":"American truck tonnage index rose 0.6% in January"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The American Trucking Associations&#8217; (ATA) advanced seasonally adjusted (SA) For-Hire Truck Tonnage Index rose 0.6% in January after increasing 0.9% in December. In January, the index equaled 115.5 (2015=100) compared with 114.9 in December.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;January&#8217;s gain was the sixth straight totaling 4.4%,&#8221; said ATA Chief Economist Bob Costello. &#8220;The index, which is dominated by contract freight with only small amounts of spot market truck freight, is off 3.9% from the all-time high in August 2019 and only 1.5% below March 2020 when the pandemic hit.<\/p>\n<p>In January, truck tonnage was helped by rising retail sales and factory output. While housing starts fell last month, which is another important driver of truck tonnage, it remained at high levels.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Compared with January 2021, the SA index increased 1.2%, which was the fifth straight year-over-year gain. In December, the index was up 1.5% from a year earlier. In 2021, compared with the average in 2020, tonnage was up 0.3%. In 2020, tonnage was off 4% compared with 2019.<\/p>\n<p>ATA calculates the tonnage index based on surveys from its membership.<\/p>\n<p>Source: ATA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The American Trucking Associations&#8217; (ATA) advanced seasonally adjusted (SA) For-Hire Truck Tonnage Index rose 0.6% in January after increasing 0.9% in December. In January, the index equaled 115.5 (2015=100) compared with 114.9 in December.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":643,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[173],"types-de-nouvelles":[],"class_list":["post-4131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-freight-news","tag-american-trucking-associations-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4131"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4132,"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4131\/revisions\/4132"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4131"},{"taxonomy":"types-de-nouvelles","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types-de-nouvelles?post=4131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}