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TRUCKING INDUSTRY STATISTICS * USA - U.S. Commercial Trucks Cover 94 Billion Miles in 2007
Transportation and Warehousing Revenues Grow
Washington,DC,USA -MarketWatch -Jan 08, 2009: -- Truck transportation, couriers and messengers, and warehousing and storage revenues increased 3.5 percent to $325 billion in 2007, according to the U.S. Census Bureau... The report, 2007 Service Annual Survey: Truck Transportation, Couriers and Messengers, and Warehousing and Storage, provides estimates of revenue, size of shipments, revenue by commodity shipped, and origin and destination of shipment and inventories of revenue-generating equipment for firms with paid employees... "As the trucking industry moves toward expanding its services to include warehousing and storage, the Service Annual Survey is an important vehicle for measuring these industry changes," said Mark Wallace, Chief of the Census Bureau's Service Sector Statistics Division... Truck transportation revenues saw a 3.2 percent increase from 2006, reaching $229 billion in 2007. General freight trucking contributed approximately two-thirds of all trucking revenue: $153 billion in 2007. The remaining $76 billion in revenue was from trucks transporting specialized freight that required equipment such as flatbeds, tankers or refrigerated trailers... Specialized freight trucking increased 4.7 percent in revenue in 2007. Local specialized freight (excluding used goods) accounted for $33 billion...
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