{"text":"More trucking firms have shut down during the first six months of 2019 than in all of 2018, a result of a softer freight market and the broader effects of tariffs on imported goods, a freight market expert said.\n\n“Tariffs are terrible taxes,” Donald Broughton, principal of Broughton Capital of Missouri, told Transport Topics on Sept. 5. “They are one of many if not the largest negative factors in our economy.”\n\nRead more: https://www.ttnews.com/articles/2019-trucking-company-closures-so-far-have-doubled-all-2018 ","videos":"[]","link":"{}","pics":"[]","canComment":true}