While other parts of the U.S. economy stagger along the road to recovery, the trucking industry is cruising along, performing better than the economy at large.
What matters more than a difference of a few tenths of a percentage point in growth from quarter to quarter is whether Chinese leaders are allowing the private sector to flourish by reducing the role of state industry in the economy, said Ben Simpfendorfer, managing director of Silk Road Associates, a consulting firm in Hong Kong.