ATA has announced that they issued annual report of Truck industry in USA, this report telling 2023 overview.
They show only summary as below
- Preliminary figures indicate that trucks moved 11.18 billion tons of freight in 2023, down from the 11.46 billion tons hauled the previous year.
- Preliminary figures indicate that the industry saw revenues grow to $987 billion, up from $940.8 billion in 2022.
- Trucking employed 8.5 million people in industry-related jobs, including 3.55 million professional drivers in 2023.
- The industry remains one made up of small businesses, with 95.5% of carriers operating 10 or fewer trucks and 99.6% operating fewer than 100 power units.
- Cross-border trade remained a robust source of freight for motor carriers, with trucks moving 66.5% of surface trade between the US and Canada, and 84.5% of goods across the Mexican border in 2023.
https://www.trucking.org/news-insights/ata-american-trucking-trends-2024
You have to pay for getting ” ATA American Trucking Trends 2024″ at ATA document shop.
JTA truck industry 2023
We can get Trucking industry report 2023 by JTA for free.
Look to both US and Japan, we can find that Amount of business is different between US and Japan, but most of situation and issues are same ,
like “Driver shortage”, ” Parking shortage” ” Women in Truck” “Salary of Truck driver”
” Small business player” ” Indepedent driver ” ….