Employment growth numbers so far this year have shown a strengthening Economy, with an unemployment rate of 6.1%. Employers added 288,000 jobs in June, 17,000 of those jobs were in the Transportation and Warehouse industries.

"That's good for consumers, that's good for consumer spending and it's good for trucking," said American Trucking Associations Chief Economist Bob Costello in a Tweet.

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