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Freight Facts and Figures 2010

Table 4-1. Economic Characteristics of Transportation and Warehousing Establishments in Freight-Dominated Modes: 2002 and 2007

The freight industry has many components, encompassing companies large and small. All told there were nearly 220,000 transportation and warehousing establishments in 2007, with more than one-half of those primarily engaged in trucking. Revenue generated by trucking accounts for about 34 percent of transportation and warehousing sector revenue while warehousing accounts for a small percentage of the total.

Table in Excel format | Historical data

NAICS Establishments
2002
Establishments
2007
Revenue (millions of current $)
2002
Revenue (millions of current $)
2007
Payroll (millions of current $)
2002
Payroll (millions of current $)
2007
Paid Employees
2002
Paid Employees
2007
Transportation and warehousing 199,618 219,706 382,152 639,916 115,989 173,183 3,650,859 4,454,383
Rail transportation NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA
Water transportation 1,890 1,721 23,331 34,447 3,194 4,544 66,153 75,997
Truck transportation 112,642 120,390 164,219 217,833 47,750 58,266 1,435,210 1,507,923
Pipeline transportation 2,188 2,529 22,031 25,718 2,477 3,219 36,790 36,964
Support activities for transportation 33,942 42,130 57,414 86,596 16,202 24,579 465,616 608,385
Couriers and messengers 12,655 13,004 58,165 77,877 17,175 20,431 561,514 557,195
Warehousing and storage 12,671 13,938 16,548 21,921 17,183 25,526 565,533 720,451

Key: NA = not available; NAICS: North American Industry Classification System.

Notes:

Total includes air transportation, transit and ground passenger transportation, and scenic and sightseeing transportation. Data are for establishments in which transportation is the primary business. Data exclude transportation provided privately, such as trucking organized "in-house" by a grocery company. Data are not collected for rail transportation nor for governmental organizations even when their primary activity would be classified in industries covered by the census. For example, data are not collected for publicly operated buses and subway systems.

Sources:

2002: U.S. Department of Commerce, Census Bureau, 2002 Economic Census, Transportation and Warehousing, United States, (Washington, DC: 2004), available at www.census.gov/econ/census02/data/us/US000_48.HTM as of June 25, 2010; 2007: U.S. Department of Commerce, Census Bureau, 2007 Economic Census, Transportation and Warehousing, United States (Washington, DC: 2010), available at www.census.gov/econ/census07 as of August 10, 2010.

 


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