{"id":981,"date":"2020-07-13T20:33:08","date_gmt":"2020-07-13T20:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hiremaster.com\/trucking-news\/?p=981"},"modified":"2020-07-13T20:33:09","modified_gmt":"2020-07-13T20:33:09","slug":"heavy-hauling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hiremaster.com\/trucking-news\/other-news\/2020\/07\/13\/heavy-hauling\/981\/","title":{"rendered":"Heavy Hauling"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><em>Trucks moved 11.8 billion tons of freight in 2019, generating $791.7B in revenue<\/em><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>As if you really need any convincing that trucking is engine that keeps America\u2019s economy moving, the American Trucking Associations has compiled some impressive numbers to hammer home the idea.<br>\u00a0<br>In 2019, the trucking industry generated $791.7 billion \u2013 with a \u2018B\u2019 \u2013 in revenue, moving 11.84 billion tons of freight, positioning the country in a position to withstand the uncertainty of the coronavirus crisis that was to come.<br>\u00a0<br>The ATA\u2019s American Trucking Trends 2020, the organization\u2019s annual data compendium of all things trucking, laid out several other eye-opening factoids.<br>\u00a0<br>In 2019, trucking\u2019s revenues accounted for 80.4 percent of the nation\u2019s freight bill. Trucks moved 67.7 percent of surface freight between the U.S. and Canada and 83.1 percent of the cross-border trade with Mexico \u2013 a total of $772 billion worth of goods.<br>\u00a0<br>\u201cDespite a challenging year, the data \u2026 shows the industry was in good shape entering the global pandemic,\u201d ATA chief economist Bob Costello said.<br>\u00a0<br>Ask any trucking executive and they\u2019ll tell you their company\u2019s most valuable asset is their people. There were 7.95 million people employed in trucking-related jobs, including 3.6 million professional drivers \u2013 and more are needed. Women make up 6.7 percent of the driving force and minorities account for 45.1 percent of truckers.<br>\u00a0<br>It\u2019s an industry driven by small companies. While the mega-fleets gain most of the attention, 93.1 percent of fleets operate six or fewer trucks and 97.4 percent operate 20 or fewer.<br><br>Asked where he thought the trucking industry would be without the small carrier, one Alabama operator told Wright Media, \u201cit\u2019d be non-existent.\u201d<br>\u00a0<br>\u201cEverybody started as a little company,\u201d said Brian Lindley, owner of LB3, a 20-truck fleet in Wedowee, Ala. \u201cUsually your smaller companies have better service; we\u2019re more of the old-fashioned way of doing business, a handshake and we\u2019re there to serve you (approach).\u201d<br>\u00a0<br>Check out\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hiremaster.com\/jobs\">www.hiremaster.com\/jobs<\/a> to find available truck driving jobs throughout the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trucks moved 11.8 billion tons of freight in 2019, generating $791.7B in revenue As if you really need any convincing that trucking is engine that keeps America\u2019s economy moving, the American Trucking Associations has compiled&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":982,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,6],"tags":[260],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hiremaster.com\/trucking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hiremaster.com\/trucking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hiremaster.com\/trucking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiremaster.com\/trucking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiremaster.com\/trucking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=981"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiremaster.com\/trucking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":983,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiremaster.com\/trucking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981\/revisions\/983"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiremaster.com\/trucking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hiremaster.com\/trucking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiremaster.com\/trucking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiremaster.com\/trucking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}