There have been only one,000 extra truck transportation employees being counted by the Bureau of Labor Statistics in June in comparison with the quantity the company counted in April.
In 4 of the final 5 months, the variety of truck transportation jobs reported by the BLS fell, together with a 1,300 decline for June, reported Thursday morning by the company.
However in April, truck transportation jobs rose by 5,100. Mix that with modifications earlier within the 12 months and the top result’s that the June determine of 1,466,600 jobs was simply 1,000 larger than what was reported in January.
It additionally implies that the variety of employees within the truck transportation sector has not been capable of recuperate from a brutal 2025, when the determine opened the 12 months at 1,493,100 jobs and closed it at 1,467,200 jobs, barely larger than the place they stand at this time.
David Spencer, vp of market intelligence at Arrive Logistics, mentioned the gradual progress in truck transportation employment has been a number of years within the marking.
“The decline in trucking employment amid the elevated price atmosphere illustrates the lasting influence a number of years of poor trucking situations has had on carriers,” Spencer mentioned in an electronic mail to BigRig. “Elevated regulatory stress is including gasoline to the fireplace, creating actual driver availability issues. Elevated working prices and a shifting panorama are limiting carriers’ potential to develop. The challenges are actual, and continued price will increase could also be wanted to facilitate service’s having the ability to generate sufficient cashflow for carriers to recruit, rent and retain drivers.”
Aaron Terrazas, an unbiased economist with a background in trucking, famous that the month-to-month decline of truck transportation jobs recorded for June–down 1,300 jobs–took place primarily due to downward revisions for April and Could.
“The patron financial system has been resilient however fragile — with retail spending higher than worst-case eventualities, however it’s largely being supported by non-discretionary spending,” he mentioned in an electronic mail to BigRig.
The general figures had been detrimental, however Terrazas downplayed their long-term significance.
“After a string of upside surprises via the spring, June’s jobs numbers got here in nicely under expectations: Payroll positive factors had been half the consensus forecast, and the prior two months had been revised modestly downward,” Terrazas mentioned. “However don’t panic but: job positive factors are nonetheless trending safely in impartial territory given slower inhabitants progress.”
That has occurred even with the background of upper oil costs. “Power costs have normalized in current days, however I think many companies will soar again into progress mode solely with warning,” Terrazas mentioned.
Latest energy in warehouse
In the meantime, warehouse jobs are making a major comeback in 2026.
During the last three months, that class has risen by a complete of 18,100 jobs, including, respectively, 4,900, 8,100 and 5,100 jobs throughout that interval.
Warehouse jobs are nonetheless lower than they had been a 12 months in the past, with a June whole of 1,850,600 jobs notably lower than the 1,871,900 jobs they had been at in June 2025.
In different notable knowledge from the report:
- Regardless of the energy in intermodal markets, rail jobs proceed to remain under the place they had been a 12 months in the past. The June determine of 149,900 jobs was 200 jobs greater than they had been in Could, and 400 jobs greater than the ultimate determine for April. However they’re 5,300 jobs lower than they had been a 12 months in the past.
- The typical variety of hours labored in truck transportation in Could–that knowledge is on a one-month lag–was 41.2 hours. For the reason that finish of the pandemic, that determine has been at 41.2 hours twice since October 2022, the 2 highest figures recorded for all of 2023 via Could 2026. Within the final ten years, that quantity has been above 42 hours a number of instances, however you’ve acquired to return to 2021 to seek out any months at that degree.
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