Turnover accelerates among truckers.

The driver turnover rate among truckload carriers increased during the third quarter of 2006, following improvements during the first and second quarters of the year, the American Trucking Associations said.

Large truckload carrier line-haul driver turnover increased to 121 percent from 110 percent in the second quarter. Small truckload carrier turnover, meanwhile, jumped to 114 percent from 100 percent.

Line-haul driver turnover among less-than-truckload carriers was 14 percent. Small truckload carrier driver turnover exceeded 100 percent during the last four consecutive quarters for the first time since the ATA began collecting driver turnover statistics in …