* DC - Report: Dollar value of goods moved on freight network ‘greater than ever before’
-- In a new report, the Department of Transportation says the dollar value of goods moved on the nation’s freight network is greater than ever before... Trucks remain the most commonly used mode to move freight, transporting 64 percent of the weight and 71 percent of the value in 2012 — compared to 65 percent of the value in 2007... DOT’s Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) and Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) today released the first product from the newest version of the “Freight Analysis Framework” which they say is the most comprehensive publicly available data set of freight movement... The new data show an increase in the dollar value of goods moved on the transportation network... The newly baselined Freight Analysis Framework estimates show that in 2012, nearly 17.0 billion tons of goods worth about $17.9 trillion were moved on the transportation network, which equates to 47 million tons of goods valued at more than $49 billion a day moved throughout the country on all transportation modes compared with $45 billion per day in 2007...
(Photo: Our economy can't grow if shipper can't goods to and from ports) -- Washington, DC, USA - The Trucker News - 20 Oct 2015Labels: transport and logistics reports, trucking statistics
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