ALEXANDRIA, Va. (April 28, 2004) –The American Trucking Associations reports that the U.S. trucking industry has hauled over nine billion tons of freight in 2003 — 68.9 per cent of all freight tonnage transported in the U.S.

The industry generated revenues totaling $610 billion. According to estimates to be released later in ATA’s annual Freight Forecast, trucking revenues will likely surpass the $1 trillion mark by 2015 and account for 87.3 per cent of all freight transportation revenue.

In the ATA 2003 freight report, rail moved 12.9 per cent of U.S. freight, 7.7 per cent was waterborne, and 9.4 per cent went by pipeline. Air freight (0.1 per cent) and rail intermodal (0.9 per cent) freight combined equaled just one percent of U.S. freight in 2003.