National Average Price for Regular Unleaded Current: $3.284; Month Ago: $3.072; Year Ago: $3.422. National Average Price for Diesel Current: $4.106; Month Ago: $3.927; Year Ago: $4.534.

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.

“The frustratingly choppy freight environment continued in November,” said ATA Chief Economist Bob Costello. “Since hitting a low in January of this year, tonnage is up a total of 1.1%, but the path has been fraught with nice gains one month only to come back down the next. The good news is that the overall trend this year is up, albeit at a slow rate.” In November, the ATA advanced seasonally adjusted For-Hire Truck Tonnage Index equaled 112.5 compared with 114.6 in October. The index, which is based on 2015 as 100, was down 1% from the same month last year. The not seasonally adjusted index, which calculates raw changes in tonnage hauled, equaled 109.6 in November, 9.6% below October. The seasonally adjusted decrease follows a sequential 1.2% gain in October, which was unchanged from the November 19 press release.