This year’s edition highlights the challenging environment that motor carriers dealt with in 2024, but in the end the industry still delivered more than 72% of all domestic freight tonnage in the U.S.
Among the key findings in this year’s report:
- Trucks moved 11.27 billion tons of freight in 2024, down from the 11.41 billion tons hauled the previous year.
- In 2024, the industry saw revenues at $906 billion, down from $1.004 trillion in 2023.
- Trucking employed 8.4 million people in industry-related jobs, including 3.58 million professional drivers in 2024.
- The industry remains one made up of small businesses, with 91.5% of carriers operating 10 or fewer trucks and 99.3% operating fewer than 100 power units.
- Trucks moved 67% of surface trade between the U.S. and Canada, and 85% of goods across the Mexican border in 2024.
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