Here's How Stuff Gets Shipped Across America
There are many ways to track U.S. economic activity. Billionaire Warren Buffett likes to follow railroad traffic.
However, rail isn't the only means by which goods get transported around the country. In fact, you could argue that trucking is a much more sensitive to the economy.
The Bureau of Transportation statistics runs the Commodity Flows Survey every five years (most recently in 2012), tracking what kinds of goods are shipped around the country and how they get from place to place.
We took a look at how shipping breaks down among the different types of transportation.
Trucking dominates freight movement by total dollar value of all goods shipped, with just over $10 trillion out of the total $13,625,059 worth of goods moved around the country:
Bureau of Transportation Statistics
Trucks also account for most of the total weight of goods shipped, with rail in a distant second:
Bureau of Transportation Statistics Bureau of Transportation Statistics Bureau of Transportation Statistics
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