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American Trucking Associations’ advanced seasonally adjusted For-Hire Truck Tonnage Index declined 1.2% in April after decreasing 2.2% in March. In April, the index equaled 111.7 (2015=100) compared with 113.1 in March. “The truck freight market remained soft in April as seasonally adjusted volumes fell for the second straight month,” said American Trucking Associations Chief Economist Bob Costello. “With a rebound in freight remaining elusive, it is likely that additional capacity will leave the industry in the face of continued softness in the market.” March’s decrease was revised down slightly from our April 23 press release. Compared with April 2023, the index fell 1.5%, which was the fourteenth straight year-over-year decline. In March, the index was down 1.3% from a year earlier.

Authorities have recovered and identified all 11 workers killed in Tuesday’s catastrophic chemical tank implosion at the Nippon Dynawave Packaging plant, ending a grueling five-day search through the wreckage of the Longview mill. Officials announced Saturday that crews found the body of the final missing worker and released the names of all 11 workers killed, including one man who had not previously been publicly identified. The victims were identified as Gilbert Bernal, 52, of Kelso; Tyler Covington, 29, of Castle Rock; Brad Covington, 27, of Castle Rock; Robert Wilson, 48, of Clatskanie, Oregon; Dale Miller, 54, of Portland; Jared Ammons, 35, of Longview; Braydon Finkas, 38, of Cathlamet; Clinton “CJ” Doran, 26, of Kelso; John Forsberg, 51, of Longview; Norman Barlow, 58, of Vancouver, Washington; and Dillon Miller, who died after being transported to a Portland hospital.