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For-hire trucking industry loses 9,300 jobs the past two months

Oct 07, 2019 at 08:29 AM CST

WASHINGTON — The for-hire trucking industry has lost 9,300 jobs the past two months, according to the Department of Labor’s monthly job report released Friday, which showed that overall, U.S. employers added a modest 136,000 jobs in September, but enough to help lower the unemployment rate to a new five-decade low of 3.5%.