Miinor change in truck job numbers, bigger shift in warehouses

There were 100 much workers successful motortruck proscription successful July than successful June, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. But determination were a batch less warehouse workers than a period earlier.

The monthly jobs study showed motortruck proscription employment dropping by those 100 positions successful July comparative to June. It besides reflected a downward revision of 1,500 jobs from the archetypal study of motortruck proscription jobs successful June. May was revised downward by 200 jobs.

The extremity effect is that the BLS reported 1,465,100 jobs successful February. In July, the fig of motortruck proscription jobs reported by the BLS was precisely the same.

That isn't the lawsuit for warehouse workers. That fig declined by 9,500 jobs to 1,834,600 jobs. 

While the one-month diminution was large, it wasn't adjacent the biggest successful the past year. Declines of 16,000 jobs and 13,500 jobs were reported for September and October 2025, respectively. The extremity effect is that warehouse jobs are down 34,700 jobs since July 2025, a driblet of 1.8%.

To turn oregon not to grow

Mazan Danaf, the main economist astatine Uber Freight, said carriers are "actively seeking to grow fleets to capitalize connected rising spot rates and strengthening demand," though helium added successful an email to FreightWaves that it was a situation to bash truthful "despite a restrictive regulatory environment."

Danaf besides added that immoderate of the subsector information successful the jobs study was positive, "with long-distance truckload employment increasing for 4 consecutive months done June."

But a antithetic presumption came from David Spencer, vice president of marketplace quality astatine Arrive Logistics. In an email to FreightWaves, helium said the information that employment is holding comparatively dependable adjacent arsenic rates are rising "highlights bearer priorities for replacing aging instrumentality and focusing connected indispensable operator wage increases, alternatively of further maturation astatine this constituent successful the cycle."

Danaf besides took a semipermanent view:  motortruck proscription employment reported by the BLS is 3.2% beneath its 10-year average, "suggesting that a afloat capableness betterment remains a semipermanent prospect."

Up and down couriers

One assemblage that did adhd a important fig of jobs was couriers. They were up to 1,098,00 jobs from 1,083,100 jobs. 

But arsenic autarkic economist Aaron Terrazas pointed out, that looked bully mostly due to the fact that the BLS sharply revised downward its June figure, with the 1.083 cardinal jobs present reported good nether the archetypal study of 1,097,200 jobs.

Terrazas besides noted that not lone were the July numbers for warehouse workers down, but they were revised downward for May and June arsenic well. The extremity effect is that portion the July fig of 1.834 cardinal jobs is much than it was successful the archetypal 3 months of the year, "revisions person erased immoderate consciousness of a summertime rebound successful warehousing employment," Terrazas said.