Motor Freight Transportation and Warehousing Services -- Revenues, Expenses, and Payroll statistics

[In millions of dollars. Estimates for years 1988-1993 reflect a benchmarking to the results of the 1992 Census of Transportation, Communications, and Utilities. Based on the Transportation Annual Survey, see summary below]


		Operating revenue					Operating revenue					Operating revenue			Operating expenses					Operating expenses					Operating expenses			Annual payroll					Annual payroll					Annual payroll
Kind of business	SIC ¹
	code	1985	1986	1987	1988	1989	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1985	1986	1987	1988	1989	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1985	1986	1987	1988	1989	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997

Motor freight, transportation, and
warehousing services ²	42	92,285	97,322	103,743	115,326	123,520	134,532	134,259	143,793	151,564	165,584	172,727	184,259	195,979	87,643	90,441	98,351	109,009	116,359	125,123	125,246	134,752	141,331	153,203	160,321	172,058	181,332	28,141	29,012	30,987	33,658	35,730	37,257	37,914	39,896	42,258	46,137	49,373	52,522	55,835

Trucking and courier services, except by air ³	421	87,480	92,164	98,422	109,274	116,937	127,314	126,772	135,437	142,547	155,713	161,806	172,743	183,153	83,461	85,965	93,793	103,741	110,669	118,968	118,855	127,687	133,857	145,216	151,628	162,825	170,998	26,772	27,534	29,577	32,042	34,003	35,388	36,012	37,761	39,874	43,544	46,478	49,432	52,438
Local trucking without storage	4212	(NA)	(NA)	(NA)	(NA)	(NA)	31,397	30,890	33,554	36,648	40,903	43,830	46,589	49,972	(NA)	(NA)	(NA)	(NA)	(NA)	28,049	27,887	31,047	33,388	36,455	38,695	41,325	43,871	(NA)	(NA)	(NA)	(NA)	(NA)	7,575	7,521	8,044	8,443	9,213	9,885	10,701	11,624
Trucking, except local	4213	(NA)	(NA)	(NA)	(NA)	(NA)	74,465	73,982	78,358	81,317	89,369	91,675	97,586	103,847	(NA)	(NA)	(NA)	(NA)	(NA)	70,965	70,828	75,061	77,568	84,682	88,061	94,390	98,570	(NA)	(NA)	(NA)	(NA)	(NA)	20,029	20,043	20,975	22,290	24,686	26,635	28,161	29,594
Local trucking with storage	4214	(NA)	(NA)	(NA)	(NA)	(NA)	4,115	4,022	4,191	4,487	4,757	5,154	5,502	5,860	(NA)	(NA)	(NA)	(NA)	(NA)	3,885	3,838	3,930	4,247	4,543	4,817	5,121	5,439	(NA)	(NA)	(NA)	(NA)	(NA)	1,344	1,324	1,346	1,436	1,538	1,633	1,681	1,801
Courier services, except by air	4215	(NA)	(NA)	(NA)	(NA)	(NA)	17,337	17,878	19,334	20,095	20,684	21,147	23,066	23,474	(NA)	(NA)	(NA)	(NA)	(NA)	16,069	16,302	17,649	18,654	19,536	20,055	21,989	23,118	(NA)	(NA)	(NA)	(NA)	(NA)	6,440	7,124	7,396	7,705	8,107	8,325	8,889	9,419

Public warehousing and storage	422	4,754	5,115	5,255	5,991	6,505	7,147	7,440	8,329	8,980	9,827	10,874	11,463	12,750	4,136	4,442	4,536	5,254	5,667	6,142	6,375	7,041	7,438	7,946	8,652	9,189	10,268	1,349	1,462	1,405	1,612	1,721	1,864	1,896	2,127	2,372	2,579	2,883	3,076	3,376
Farm product warehousing and storage	4221	493	495	586	591	621	625	566	656	709	753	749	688	710	431	419	477	508	508	542	505	573	593	605	595	560	576	121	121	101	109	115	125	116	129	150	165	182	176	179
Refrigerated warehousing and storage	4222	958	1,080	1,171	1,224	1,273	1,469	1,554	1,745	1,756	1,869	2,107	2,203	2,321	832	951	985	1,072	1,131	1,286	1,328	1,482	1,501	1,585	1,747	1,857	1,884	305	340	321	351	362	416	423	464	485	515	588	617	629
General warehousing and storage	4225	(NA)	(NA)	(NA)	(NA)	(NA)	3,257	3,568	3,919	4,633	5,294	6,143	6,522	7,457	(NA)	(NA)	(NA)	(NA)	(NA)	2,774	3,022	3,242	3,754	4,159	4,777	5,030	5,840	(NA)	(NA)	(NA)	(NA)	(NA)	845	885	983	1,204	1,367	1,613	1,710	1,953
Special warehousing and storage ⁴	4226	(NA)	(NA)	(NA)	(NA)	(NA)	1,796	1,752	2,009	1,882	1,911	1,875	2,050	2,262	(NA)	(NA)	(NA)	(NA)	(NA)	1,540	1,520	1,744	1,590	1,597	1,533	1,742	1,968	(NA)	(NA)	(NA)	(NA)	(NA)	478	472	551	533	532	500	573	615

NA Not available. S Figure does not meet publication standards.
1 Standard Industrial Classification.
2 Includes terminal and joint terminal maintenance facilities for motor carrier transportation (SIC 4231) not shown separately.
3 Excludes private motor carriers that operate as auxiliary establish- ments to nontransportation companies and independent owner-operators with no paid employees.
4 Includes household goods warehousing.

Source: U.S. Bureau of the Census, Current Business Reports, Transportation Annual Survey.

http://WWW.CENSUS.GOV/svsd/www/tas.html TRANSPORTATION ANNUAL SURVEY

PURPOSE

To provide national estimates of revenue, expenses, and vehicle fleet inventories for commercial motor freight transportation and public warehousing service industries. The United States Code, Title 13, authorizes this survey and provides for mandatory responses.

COVERAGE

Companies with employment that provide commercial motor freight transportation and public warehousing services (SIC 42). In 1991, the survey size was nearly doubled to provide more industry detail. In 1994, over 110,000 covered employer establishments had an estimated combined operating revenue of nearly $168 billion.

CONTENT

Data collected include operating revenue and operating revenue by source; total expenses and expenses by type; percentage of motor carrier freight revenue by commodity type, size of shipments handled, length of haul, and shipments country of origin and destination; and vehicle fleet inventory. Current and previous year data are requested for the first year of a new sample. In subsequent years, only current year data are requested.

FREQUENCY

Annually since 1985; reported data are for activity taking place during the calendar year. Data collection begins about 3 months after the reporting year and continues for about 4 months. Samples are selected every 5 years and updated annually. Use of the latest sample began in 1992 (for the 1991 reporting year).

METHODS

A mail-out/mail-back survey of some 2,500 selected firms and Employer Identification Numbers (EINs). The sample is drawn from a list of employers contained on the Standard Statistical Establishment List which contains all EINs and locations of establishments for listed businesses. An EIN may represent one or more establishments and firms with payroll may have one or more EIN.

Firms are stratified by total revenue size and kind of business using data from the latest census of transportation. All firms with total revenue above applicable size cutoffs are included in the survey and report for all their industry EINs. In a second stage, unselected EINs are stratified by kind of business and revenue and a simple random sample is taken from each stratum.

The sample is updated annually to reflect "births" and "deaths" in an annual procedure. Companies and EINs that are not active in a survey year are dropped from the sample. New EINs are identified in a birth selection procedure and included in the survey.

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These tables are based on figures supplied by the United States Census Bureau, U.S. Department of Commerce and are subject to revision by the Census Bureau.

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