Skip navigation
Newswire

US highway travel in June up 2 pct vs year ago-Govt

WASHINGTON, Aug 21 (Reuters) - U.S. highway travel was up 2.0 percent in June compared with a year ago, rising 4.9 billion miles to 256.7 billion miles, the U.S. Transportation Department said on Friday.

However, the department revised down its estimate for highway travel for May, from a 0.1 percent increase to a 0.2 percent decline in miles traveled during the month from a year earlier.

(Reporting by Tom Doggett)