Trucking employment rebounded from a minor setback in February with a few thousand jobs added in the subsector in March.
Trucking employment went up by more than 3,000 jobs after losing about 800 in February. Preliminary numbers showed a job loss of 4,000 in February. However, revised data puts that number below 1,000. Still, February broke a nine-month streak of trucking jobs increases.
Employment numbers for March and February are preliminary.
The trucking subsector had a net loss of 42,500 jobs in 2020. This is far from the largest annual decrease. In 2009, more than 100,000 trucking jobs were lost, preceded by employment being down by 76,500 jobs in 2008 during the Great Recession. In 2001, another recession year, trucking jobs fell by more than 49,000.
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Trucking employment went up by more than 3,000 jobs after losing about 800 in February. Preliminary numbers showed a job loss of 4,000 in February. However, revised data puts that number below 1,000. Still, February broke a nine-month streak of trucking jobs increases.
Employment numbers for March and February are preliminary.
The trucking subsector had a net loss of 42,500 jobs in 2020. This is far from the largest annual decrease. In 2009, more than 100,000 trucking jobs were lost, preceded by employment being down by 76,500 jobs in 2008 during the Great Recession. In 2001, another recession year, trucking jobs fell by more than 49,000.
Employment in trucking rebounds after modest decrease in February
Employment for the transportation sector in general was great in March, with the trucking sector gaining a few thousand jobs.
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