Table 4-3. Employment in For-Hire Transportation Primarily Serving Freight¹ (Thousands) (Historical)

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	1980	1990	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005
Total U.S. labor force2	90,528	109,487	131,785	131,826	130,341	129,999	(R) 131,435	133,463
Transportation and warehousing	2,961	3,476	4,410	4,372	4,224	4,185	(R) 4,249	4,347
Rail transportation	518	272	232	227	218	218	(R) 226	228
Water transportation	NA	57	56	54	53	55	(R) 56	61
Truck transportation	NA	1,122	1,406	1,387	1,339	1,326	(R) 1,352	1,393
Pipeline transportation	NA	60	46	45	42	40	(R) 38	38
Support activities for transportation	NA	364	537	539	525	520	(R) 535	551
Couriers and messengers	NA	375	605	587	561	562	(R) 557	572
Warehousing and storage	NA	407	514	514	517	528	(R) 558	585

Key: NA = not available; R = revised.

¹Annual averages.
²Excludes farm employment.

Note: These data include workers employed in transportation industries but not necessarily in a transportation occupation, such as a lawyer working for a trucking company. Moreover, these data exclude workers in transportation occupations employed by non-transportation industries, such as a truck driver employed by a retail company.

Source: U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Current Employment Statistics survey, available at www.bls.gov as of May 3, 2006.