Unemployment in the transportation sector was lower than overall unemployment. BLS reports that the U.S. unemployment rate, not seasonally adjusted, in April 2025 was 3.9% or 0.3 percentage points above the transportation sector rate. Seasonally adjusted, the U.S. unemployment rate in April 2025 was 4.2%. (However, this was before the chaotic Trump tariff pandemic started by his executive order – AutoCrat.)

Seasonally adjusted, employment in the transportation and warehousing sector rose to 6,794,500 in April 2025 — up 0.4% from the previous month and up 2.3% from April 2024. Employment in transportation and warehousing grew 21.0% in April 2025 from the pre-pandemic April 2019 level of 5,617,200.