Despite the recent slowdown in tractor and trailer orders, the trucking industry is still going strong in 2015. Now that the record orders of last fall are fulfilled, fleet managers are putting equipment to work. The American Trucking Association's advanced seasonally adjusted For-Hire Truck Tonnage Index increased 1.1% in March, following a revised drop of 2.8% during the previous month. Compared with March 2014, the SA index increased 5%, which was above the 3.3% gain in February but below January's 6.7% year-over-year increase. During the first quarter, tonnage was unchanged from the previous quarter while increasing 5% from the same period in 2014. The non-seasonally adjusted index, which represents the change in tonnage actually hauled by the fleets before any seasonal adjustment, equaled 139.7 in March which was 17.2% above the previous month (119.2).
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