Hello friends,
How is your day going? Our whole team has been living interesting days as well. Today we have gathered 15 facts that will make you proud to be a part of the transportation industry in any and all capacities. Always remember that we are here for you to provide solutions for your daily logistics operations.
- If the trucking industry was a nation it would be ranked 33rd in GDP.
- The trucking industry in the United States accounts for roughly $700B in revenue annually.
- The average truck driver travels 150,000 miles a year, enough to drive around the entire Earth 6 times.
- The trucking industry uses 55 billion gallons of fuel each year, the equivalent of 4 trillion bottles of water.
- The US trucking industry accounts for more than 5% of all the full-time jobs in America.
- Trucks move 71% of all the freight in America.
- In 2017, trucks moved 10.8 billion tons of freight.
- Most grocery stores would run out of food in just three days if long-haul truckers stopped driving.
- The American Trucking Association believes the trucking industry needs to hire 900,000 more drivers to meet the growing demands put on the industry.
- Trucking makes up the largest portion of the American transportation industry – about 27%.
- Businesses choose tricks for $0.82 out of every dollar they spend on shipping.
- A fully loaded truck weighs about 80,000 pounds with an engine that can go up to one million miles.
- The average daily run for long-haul drivers is 500 miles.
- Trucking exclusively serves over 80% of all communities in the U.S.
- The world’s largest truck stop, Iowa 80 serves 5,000 customers per day who use 55 miles of toilet paper per month, drink 2 million cups of coffee each year and consume 17 million eggs each year, enough to stretch from Washington D.C. to Atlanta, Georgia.
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Corporate Summary:
We’RControl (www.wercontrol.us) in Austin, TX is the newly established US subsidiary of Recurso Confiable with 8 offices in the USA, Mexico, Central America, and Southern America. Recurso Confiable (https://recursoconfiable.com/ ), established in Mexico City 22 years ago as a background checking service for the trucking industry, has evolved into the industry standard in Latin America for Logistics Management Software with over 50% of the Fortune 500, more than 90 GPS/ELD partners, millions of tracked trips per year, and over 2B tracked GPS pings annually. More than 3,000 customers depend on our Logistics Solutions including: Walmart, Home Depot, Kellogg, Unilever, DHL, Bayer, Nestle, Transplace, Colgate, Bayer, Kimberly Clark and others.
Sources:
http://livetrucking.com/useless-trucking-facts-that-may-amaze-you/
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