ATA Truck Tonnage Index

The ATA Truck Tonnage Index is a monthly indicator of freight hauled by US motor carriers, published by the American Trucking Associations since the 1970s.

Headline monthly readings are free to view, while the full Monthly Truck Tonnage Report is a paid product.

In this catalog it appears concretely: - American Trucking Associations' ATA Economics and Industry Data Hub issues 12 monthly Truck Tonnage Index press releases a year; the tonnage series dates to the 1970s. - licensing notes: headline tonnage press releases are freely viewable while the full Monthly Truck Tonnage Report is paid — "sold via ATA's shop". - dataset (tagging) — "tonnage-index, freight, freight-revenue, economic-indicators". - ata-american-trucking-associations-truck-tonnage-index-trend — "free monthly Truck Tonnage Index press release (advanced seasonally adjusted For-Hire Truck Tonnage Index, base 2015=100)".

A label on a listing is not a deliverable. Teams that license on the strength of a product-name match routinely find the shipped files cover a narrower slice than they assumed, and backfilling history afterwards costs more than the license ever did. The failure mode is concrete: the label appears in a listing, the delivered files tell a different story, and the gap surfaces mid-project when fixing it is most expensive. You rarely have to take a vendor's word for it.

Treat every claim of this attribute as testable:

1. Open American Trucking Associations' ATA Economics and Industry Data Hub issues 12 monthly Truck Tonnage Index press releases a year; the tonnage series dates to the 1970s and compare its listing against the delivered artifact before paying for a commercial equivalent. 2.

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