Freight Index rises second consecutive month

Ok, so it was only a 0.1% increase from May to June, but it’s still a positive sign - two consecutive months:

For the first six months of 2008, the freight index advanced 2.9 percent, its largest increase for the first six months of the year since 2002. In 2007, the freight index dropped 0.4 percent in the first half of the year before rising about the same amount in the last six months to finish virtually unchanged for the year.

Here’s a link to the actual data.