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TABLE
18 Number of Trucks by Vehicle Weight:
1992 and 1997
(Thousands of trucks)
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| Light trucks (< 6,001
lb) |
50,545.7 |
62,798.4 |
| Medium trucks (6,001 to
19,500 lb) |
5,906.5 |
6,737.1 |
| Light-heavy trucks
(19,501 to 26,000 lb) |
732.0 |
729.3 |
| Heavy trucks (>
26,000 lb) |
3,074.5 |
3,986.9 |
KEY: lb = pound
NOTES: Weight is the empty weight of the vehicle
plus the average vehicle load.
Excludes vehicles owned by federal, state, or local governments;
ambulances; buses; motor homes; farm tractors; unpowered trailer units; and
trucks reported as sold, junked, or wrecked prior to July 1 of the year
preceding the survey.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Transportation,
Bureau of Transportation Statistics, National
Transportation Statistics 2002 (Washington,
DC: 2002), table 1-21, also available at http://www.bts.gov/, as of April
2003. The original source of these
data is the U.S. Census Brureau's Vehicle
Inventory and Use Survey (VIUS). The truck categories in National Transportation Statistics and this report differ from those in VIUS, which has the
following categories: light trucks-10,000 lbs or less; medium trucks-10,001
lbs-19,500 lbs; light-heavy trucks-19,501 lbs-26,000 lbs; and heavy-heavy
trucks-26,001 lbs or more.
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