4 September 2026
Big jump in truck transportation jobs in latest BLS report
With the overall jobs report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics showing a surprisingly big jump in employment, truck transportation participated in that rebound. The monthly report showed truck transportation employment rising 4,800 jobs to 1,470,300. It’s the highest level of jobs in the sector since October. But with employment since then mostly trending down each month, the number of jobs in the sector is still about 10,000 jobs less than it was a year ago. “A single month trend does not in itself indicate that conditions are beginning to shift,” David Spencer, vice president of market intelligence at Arrive Logistics, said in a comment supplied to FreightWaves.
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