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Number of Trucks by Weight

Embedded Dataset Excel:

Dataset Excel:

table_01_22a_082624.xlsx (20.2 KB)

Notes:

Average vehicle weight is the empty weight of the vehicle plus the average load of the vehicle.

Excludes vehicles owned by Federal, state, or local governments; ambulances; buses; motor homes; farm tractors; unpowered trailer units; and trucks reported to have been sold, junked, or wrecked prior to July 1 of the year preceding the 1992 and 1997 surveys and January 1, 2002 for the 2002 survey.

Description:

KEY: lb = pound.

Source:

1992, 1997: U.S. Census Bureau, 1997 Economic Census: Vehicle Inventory and Use Survey: United States, EC97TV-US (Washington, DC: 1999).  

2002: U.S. Census Bureau, 2002 Economic Census: Vehicle Inventory and Use Survey: United States, EC02TV-US (Washington, DC: 2004).

2021: U.S. Census Bureau, Vehicle Inventory and Use Survey (VIUS), VIUS211A, available at https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/vius/data/tables.html as of Aug. 12, 2024.

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