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Figures - Canada - Stats Can updates Canadian trucking pool
Ontario home to third of small carriersOTTAWA,BC,Canada -Today's Trucking (CAN) -7 July 2006: -- There were 44,400 firms active in the truck transportation industry in 2003... Overall, 35000 firms identified themselves as owner-operators, followed by 5900 small for-hire carriers, or those with less than $1 million in revenue, and 3,500 for-hire carriers above that threshold, Stats Canada reports... Small for-hire carriers generated total operating revenues of $1.63 billion, for a $273,000 per carrier average... For these carriers, intra-provincial movements were responsible for almost three-quarters of the total operating expenses. Geographically, Ontario was home to almost a third (31%) of these small for-hire carriers, followed by Quebec with 26 percent... Meanwhile, owner operators generated total revenue of $6.80 billion or about $194,000 per carrier... Intra-provincial movements accounted for 67 percent of the total operating revenues generated by owner operators ($4.55 billion). On a distinctive note, 53 percent of these carriers specialized in long distance transportation. However, their geographic distribution was similar to the one observed for small for-hire carriers, according to Stats Canada... (Photo: Intra-provincial hauls make up about 75 percent of operating expenses for small carriers)
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