Table 3-11 Truck Miles by Products Carried: 2002
Monday, January 4, 2016
| Products carried | Millions of miles |
|---|---|
| No product carried | 28,977 |
| Mixed freight | 14,659 |
| Tools, nonpowered | 7,759 |
| All other packaged foodstuffs | 7,428 |
| Tools, powered | 6,478 |
| Products not specified | 6,358 |
| Mail and courier parcels | 4,760 |
| Miscellaneous manufactured products | 4,008 |
| Vehicles, including parts | 3,844 |
| Wood products | 3,561 |
| Bakery and milled grain products | 3,553 |
| Articles of base metal | 3,294 |
| Machinery | 3,225 |
| Paper or paperboard articles | 3,140 |
| Meat, seafood, and their preparations | 3,056 |
| Nometallic mineral products | 3,049 |
| Electronic and other electrical equipment | 3,024 |
| Base metal in primary or semifinished forms | 2,881 |
| Gravel or crushed stone | 2,790 |
| All other agricultural products | 2,661 |
| All other waste and scrape (non-EPA manifest) | 2,647 |
| Plastic and rubber | 2,393 |
| Animal feed and products of animal origin | 2,088 |
| Furniture, mattresses, lamps, etc. | 2,043 |
| Pulp, newsprint, paper, paperboard | 1,936 |
| Fertilizers and fertilizer materials | 1,666 |
| Textile, leather, and related articles | 1,538 |
| Grains, cereal | 1,368 |
| All other chemical products and preparations | 1,351 |
| Fuel oils | 1,232 |
| All other coal and refined petroleum products | 1,172 |
| Logs and other wood in the rough | 1,149 |
| Alcoholic beverages | 1,124 |
| Natural sands | 1,089 |
| Recyclable products | 922 |
| Basic chemicals | 876 |
| Gasoline and aviation turbine fuel | 849 |
| Empty shipping containers | 794 |
| Printed products | 765 |
| Animals and fish, live | 735 |
| Precision instruments and apparatus | 734 |
| All other transportation equipment | 636 |
| All other nonmetallic minerals | 499 |
| Monumental or building stone | 462 |
| Tobacco products | 445 |
| Pharmaceutical products | 305 |
| Coal | 301 |
| Passengers | 274 |
| Products, equipment, or materials not elsewhere classified | 265 |
| Hazardous waste (EPA manifest) | 190 |
| Not applicable2 | 150 |
| Crude petroleum | 132 |
| Metallic ores and concentrates | 45 |
| Total1 | 145,173 |
1 Detail lines may not add to total because multiple products/hazardous materials may be carried at the same time.
2Vehicles not in use. When the survey respondent had partial-year ownership of the vehicle, annual miles were adjusted to reflect miles traveled when not owned by the respondent.
NOTE: Includes trucks registered to companies and individuals in the United States except pickups, minivans, other light vans, and sport utility vehicles.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Commerce, Census Bureau, 2002 Vehicle Inventory and Use Survey: United States, EC02TV-US (Washington, DC: 2004), available at www.census.gov/prod/ec02/ec02tv-us.pdf last released in December 2004.