If you have recently driven on the nation’s highways, then you have probably seen a lot of semis, but there are some surprising facts about national trucking companies that you may not know.
If you added the revenue brought in by national trucking companies together, the total would be greater than the gross domestic product of all the countries in the world, except for the top 33.
Trucks in the United States move more than 10.8 billion tons of freight. If the trucking companies did not keep freight moving, you might be hungry in about three days because the grocery store shelves would be bare. Trucks move over 70 percent of all freight moved in the United States.
Trucking firms employee about 6 percent of the total United States workforce. About 40 percent of all truckers in America are minorities. There are more than 200,000 women truck drivers. The average trucker brings home about $60.,000 annually.
Most truck drivers drive more than 100,000 miles annually. From 1986 to 2009, William Coe Jr. drove 3,001,276 miles in a commercial truck without having a single accident.
There are more than 3.5 million semis on United States highways. On average, those semis move 6.5 miles on a gallon of diesel gas. Most semis last around 15 years, but they need a new engine approximately every 750,000 miles. The legal weight of a semi in most states is 80,000 pounds.
Now that you know these trucking facts, go and tell others because trucking companies are helping build America.
