While U.S. non-farm payrolls swelled by 287,000 jobs in June, the most since October, the number of trucking jobs fell for the fifth straight month, according to a new U.S. Labor Department report issued on Friday, July 8. For-hire trucking employment fell by 6,300, for a loss of nearly 12,700 jobs since January, while the wider transportation and warehousing sector saw a loss of 9,400 jobs during June. Despite an overall increase that beat Wall Street expectations by far, the nation's unemployment rate moved up 0.2 of a percentage point from May to 4.9% in June as more people were looking for employment.
