National Average Price for Regular – Current: $2.934; Month Ago: $2.813; Year Ago: $2.358. National Average Price for Diesel – Current: $3.203; Month Ago: $3.080; Year Ago: $2.504.

“The slow, and choppy, climb off of the bottom continued in October,” said ATA Chief Economist Bob Costello. “Since hitting a low in January of this year, tonnage is up a total of 3%, plus the index is up sequentially in three of the last four months. No doubt the freight market has improved – albeit slowly – over the course of the year.” In October, the ATA advanced seasonally adjusted For-Hire Truck Tonnage Index equaled 114.6 compared with 113.3 in September. The index, which is based on 2015 as 100, equaled the reading from the same month last year. The not seasonally adjusted index, which calculates raw changes in tonnage hauled equaled 121.3 in October, 8.6% above September. The seasonally adjusted increase follows a decline in September, which was revised up slightly from the October 22 press release.

The United States and European Union have penned a framework agreement on transatlantic trade in which they agree US commodities including cattle, soy and wood pose zero deforestation risk. The US has been assigned a "low risk" status along with EU states. A new "neglibible status" is being discussed in Europe. If this status come in to being than the US would seek this status. A product is considered "neglible risk" when due diligence processes find there is no cause for deforestation concern.