TC study updates trucking landscape

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TC study updates trucking landscape
6/15/07

OTTAWA -- Heavy trucks accounted for 21.5 billion vehicle kilometers in 2005 and 13 percent of those were empty hauls -- compared to six billion kilometers for medium-sized trucks, according to a new Transport Canada study released this week.
In its annual report, Transportation in Canada 2006, Transport Canada also found, not too surprisingly, that Canadian for-hire trucking firms carried over 80 per cent of total tonnage shipped intraprovincially.

Trucking also accounted for 61 percent of trade with the United States, while rail managed 17 percent, pipeline 13 per cent, air five percent and marine four percent.
However, heavy truck activity across the Canada–U.S. border fell about one percent in 2006 to 12.9 million two-way trips.
The Ontario Trucking Association has complied a list of some more trucking-specific highlights. Among them:
-- Truck carriers with annual revenues of $12 million or more accounted for 55.2 percent of the trucking revenues generated by trucking firms with at least $1 million of annual revenues.

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