Truck Transportation Employment

Year-over-year change in payrolls in the truck transportation sector — a leading proxy for freight activity and goods-sector health. Trucking is the backbone of physical supply chains; sustained YoY declines signal softening goods demand before it appears in wider payroll data. Often cross-checked with ISM manufacturing PMI to gauge industrial momentum.

Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics, accessed via ALFRED (Archival FRED). ALFRED archives each data point exactly as it was first published on release day — before any revision by the reporting agency. The figures shown here are what investors, traders, and policymakers were actually looking at when the data came out. Economic releases like payrolls, GDP, and inflation are often revised significantly in subsequent months; ALFRED lets you see the real-time picture.