Truck tonnage has fallen almost 1 percent in May from the figured reported in April. This reflects a slowing economy not a stalled one which was the major worry across the land. Not all the reports coming out are bad as a matter of fact the freight tonnage index was almost 4 percent higher than this same period last year. In a time when there are some major acquisitions from ABF Freight taking over Panther Expedited and other LTL leaders such as YRC improving their delivery speed across more than 24000 lanes shows that the competition for your business is higher than ever before.