Avery ViseBusinessIs that headline for real?In my daily trolling for economic indicators this morning, I stumbled upon the following headline of a news release from the National Association of Realtors: “Existing-Home Sales Constrained by Tight Supply in May, Prices Continue to Gain” Seriously? Sales of existing homes fell not due to low demand but rather to lack of supply? That’s […]June 21, 2012BusinessAverage diesel price falls 5.2 cents to $3.729The national average retail diesel price fell 5.2 cents to $3.729 a gallon during the week ended June 11. It was the 10 straight decline. Over the past 10 weeks, the price of diesel has dropped 36.6 cents a gallon, surpassing the 29.9-cent, nine-week run-up from the end of January through late March. The average price is 22.1 cents below the same week last year.June 18, 2012BusinessU.S. diesel price lowest in eight monthsThe national average retail diesel price fell 6.5 cents to $3.781 a gallon during the week ended June 11. The average price is 17.3 cents below the same week last year.June 11, 2012BusinessIt’s those revisions that get youPerhaps you heard the news today: First-time claims for unemployment insurance fell by 12,000 for the week ended June 2 compared to the week before. Finally some good employment news after last week’s report of weak job creation in May. Yeah…not so much. If you just read the headline or heard the sound bite, you […]June 7, 2012BusinessTrucking adds 7,300 jobs in MayFor-hire carriers added 7,300 payroll jobs in May, up from an upwardly revised 2,700-job increase in April, according to the latest estimates released Friday, June 1, from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Payroll employment in trucking was up 0.55% over April and 3.4% over May 2011. Employment is up by 109,100 jobs, or 8.8%, from […]June 1, 2012BusinessAverage diesel price falls 5.9 cents to $3.897The national average diesel dropped 5.9 cents to $3.987 a gallon during the week ended May 28. That’s 5.1 cents below the same week last year.May 29, 2012BusinessCould Housing Surprise Us?For nearly three years, the U.S. manufacturing sector has been growing steadily due mostly to pent-up demand for business investment and exports of high-end components and tooling. To this add more stable consumer demand due to a gradually improving labor market and regional booms due to oil and gas extraction, and our economy has been […]May 24, 2012BusinessAverage diesel price falls to just above $4The national average retail diesel price fell 5.3 cents to $4.004 a gallon for the week ended Monday, May 14, according to the U.S. Department of Energy’s Energy Information Administration. The average price is 5.7 cents below the same week in 2011. If the trend continues, diesel will fall below $4 a gallon on a […]May 14, 2012BusinessForecasting diesel prices — provided they don’t changeForecasting is tricky business, and you as you might imagine, the federal government’s record for accuracy is particularly suspect. Consider, for example, that the Bureau of Labor Statistics in 2002 predicted that there would be nearly 2.1 million heavy truck drivers in 2010. In fact, there were 1.6 million — a miss of nearly half […]May 10, 2012BusinessTrucking returns to job growth in AprilAfter shedding jobs in March for the first time since July, for-hire trucking companies added 1,800 payroll jobs in April, according to the latest estimates released Friday, May 4, from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. BLS revised preliminary March figures downward by 500 jobs, so the drop in March was 2,500 jobs. The overall economy […]May 4, 2012Previous PagePage 9 of 85Next PageTop StoriesDriver coaching and scorecardingDrivers rank camera as top safety tech, as long as it faces outwardTruck drivers ranked a camera, depending on which way it faces, as having a good and bad influence on driver safety.Test DrivesQuick spin: Pete's electric Model 579Recruiting & retentionTrucking's youth movement lagging, but no retirement in sight for most driversTechnologyTransportation a top 10 target of cyberattackers, cases nearly triple last yearFeatured SponsorDownload the Heavy Duty Maintenance Checklist