Highlights

• Trucking Facts
• National Transportation Week
• The Canadian Truck Market 2002: A Report from Today's Trucking
• Canada's Top 100 Carriers

About the Trucking Industry

The trucking sector consists of those companies that move goods by means of road transport (carriers). It includes firms that undertake the transport of goods for compensation (for-hire carriers), the trucking operations of firms that maintain their own fleets of vehicles (private carriers), and the businesses of owner-operators who haul trailers or other equipment using their own trucks (either leased or owned).

Truck transportation services are a large and vital part of the Canadian economy, employing close to 400,000 people, and with revenues estimated to be close to $43 billion annually. For-hire trucking alone accounts for close to 40% of the transportation component of GDP.