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Trucks Carry The Most Freight By Weight And Value
Trucks carry three-fourths of the value of freight shipped in the United States and two-thirds of the weight, according to revised numbers released today by the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Bureau of Transportation Statistics.
The revised numbers from BTS’ Commodity Flow Survey (CFS) show that trucks moved more than $6.2 trillion and 7.8 billion tons of manufactured goods and raw materials in 2002.
Based on ton-miles, a measure combining weight and distance, rail and trucking each accounted for 40 percent of freight. A ton-mile is one ton moved one mile.
Multiple mode shipments using more than one form of transportation were second to trucking in value, at $1.1 trillion for a 13 percent share, while carrying only 216 million tons or 2 percent by weight.
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