Most people probably know the basics of what goes on in the trucking industry, but there are a ton of interesting facts about the industry that you might not know. So here are some fun facts about the trucking industry:
- Did you know that the top transferred goods in America are clothing, food, furniture, electrical goods, and machinery goods?
- Small business trucking companies make up 90% of the entire trucking industry.
- Thanks to the latest technology, 60 modern-day trucks put out the equivalent emission of a single truck from 1988.
- If you lined up every single truck in the United States, they would reach the moon.
- Speaking of the moon, if you added the annual distance covered by every truck in the United States (average 115,000 per driver), it would equal 300 billion miles or 651,000 trips around the moon.
- Trucks need about 3 football fields of room to come to a complete stop if they are going highway speeds.
- Approximately 1 out of every 14 jobs in the U.S. is created or directly affected by the trucking industry.
- 90% of the food Americans eat is hauled by refrigerated trucks.
- Over-the-road trucks are designed to travel over 1 million miles before being retired.
- 10% of truck drivers are women, but only 4% of diesel technicians are women.
These are just a few of the most interesting facts about the trucking industry. Did you learn something today?
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