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Table 3-5 and 3-5M. Truck Miles by Products Carried: 20021

Trucking is primarily about moving freight. About 80 percent of the travel by trucks, excluding panels, pickups, vans, minivans, and government-owned vehicles, is for the movement of goods.

Table 3-5 (standard units)
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Products carried Millions of miles
Total2(R) 145,173
Animals and fish, live 735
Animal feed and products of animal origin 2,088
Grains, cereal 1,368
All other agricultural products 2,661
Basic chemicals 876
Fertilizers and fertilizer materials 1,666
Pharmaceutical products 305
All other chemical products and preparations 1,351
Alcoholic beverages 1,124
Bakery and milled grain products 3,553
Meat, seafood, and their preparations 3,056
Tobacco products 445
All other products foodstuff 7,428
Logs and other wood in the rough 1,149
Paper or paperboard articles 3,140
Printed products 765
Pulp, newsprint, paper, paperboard 1,936
Wood products 3,561
Articles of base metal 3,294
Base metal in primary or semifinished forms 2,881
Nometallic mineral products 3,049
Tools, nonpowered 7,759
Tools, powered 6,478
Electronic and other electrical equipment 3,024
Furniture, mattresses, lamps, etc. 2,043
Machinery 3,225
Miscellaneous manufactured products 4,008
Precision instruments and apparatus 734
Textile, leather, and related articles 1,538
Vehicles, including parts 3,844
All other transportation equipment 636
Coal 301
Crude petroleum 132
Gravel or rushed stone 2,790
Metallic ores and concentrates 45
Monumental or building stone 462
Natural sands 1,089
All other nonmetallic minerals 499
Fuel oils 1,232
Gasoline and aviation turbine fuel 849
Plastic and rubber 2,393
All other coal and refined petroleum products 1,172
Hazardous waste (EPA manifest) 190
All other waste and scrape (non-EPA manifest) 2,647
Recyclable products 922
Mail and courier parcels 4,760
Empty shipping containers 794
Passengers 274
Mixed freight 14,659
Products, equipment, or materials not elsewhere classified 265
Products not specified 6,358
Not applicable3 150
No product carried 28,977

Key: R = revised.

1Excludes pickups, panels, minivans, sport utilities, and station wagons.
2Detail lines may not add to total because multiple products/hazardous materials may be carried at the same time.
3Vehicles not in use. When the respondent had partial-year ownership of the vehicle, annual miles were adjusted to reflect miles traveled when not owned by the respondent.

Source: U.S. Department of Commerce, Census Bureau, Vehicle Inventory and Use Survey 2002: United States (Washington, DC: 2004), available at http://www.census.gov/svsd/www/02vehinv.html as of July 26, 2007.


Table 3-5M (metric units - million kilometers)
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Products carried Millions of kilometers
Total2(R) 233,728
Animals and fish, live1,182
Animal feed and products of animal origin3,360
Grains, cereal2,202
All other agricultural products4,283
Basic chemicals1,410
Fertilizers and fertilizer materials2,681
Pharmaceutical products491
All other chemical products and preparations2,174
Alcoholic beverages1,808
Bakery and milled grain products5,717
Meat, seafood, and their preparations4,918
Tobacco products717
All other products foodstuff11,954
Logs and other wood in the rough1,849
Paper or paperboard articles5,053
Printed products1,231
Pulp, newsprint, paper, paperboard3,115
Wood products5,731
Articles of base metal5,301
Base metal in primary or semifinished forms4,637
Nometallic mineral products4,906
Tools, nonpowered12,487
Tools, powered10,425
Electronic and other electrical equipment4,866
Furniture, mattresses, lamps, etc.3,288
Machinery5,190
Miscellaneous manufactured products6,449
Precision instruments and apparatus1,181
Textile, leather, and related articles2,475
Vehicles, including parts6,186
All other transportation equipment1,024
Coal484
Crude petroleum212
Gravel or rushed stone4,490
Metallic ores and concentrates73
Monumental or building stone744
Natural sands1,753
All other nonmetallic minerals802
Fuel oils1,983
Gasoline and aviation turbine fuel1,366
Plastic and rubber3,851
All other coal and refined petroleum products1,886
Hazardous waste (EPA manifest)306
All other waste and scrape (non-EPA manifest)4,261
Recyclable products1,484
Mail and courier parcels7,660
Empty shipping containers1,278
Passengers440
Mixed freight23,591
Products, equipment, or materials not elsewhere classified426
Products not specified10,232
Not applicable3 241
No product carried46,653

Key: R = revised.

1Excludes pickups, panels, minivans, sport utilities, and station wagons.
2Detail lines may not add to total because multiple products/hazardous materials may be carried at the same time.
3Vehicles not in use. When the respondent had partial-year ownership of the vehicle, annual miles were adjusted to reflect miles traveled when not owned by the respondent.

Note: 1 mile = 1.61 kilometers.

Source: U.S. Department of Commerce, Census Bureau, Vehicle Inventory and Use Survey 2002: United States (Washington, DC: 2004), available at http://www.census.gov/svsd/www/02vehinv.html as of July 26, 2007.


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