TORONTO — According to TransCore Link Logistics Canadian Freight Index truckers hauled 11 percent less freight in November compared to the previous month, but year-over-year, November 2014 freight volumes were up 19 percent. 

“Outbound and inbound cross-border loads increased year-over-year by 52 percent and 12 percent, respectively,” TransCore claims.

Seventy percent of all loads came from across the border and 25 percent from within Canada. 

TransCore found that loads into Western Canada spiked to 41 percent in November from 37 percent in October and 33 percent in September. Loads out of Western Canada rose 48 percent in November from 44 and 43 percent in October and September, respectively.