The Daily. Monday, August 27, 2001

For-hire trucking, commodity origin and destination

Canada-based long-distance for-hire carriers hauled more than 278 million metric tonnes of freight in 2000, an increase of 3.4% from 1999.

Although domestic activities accounted for 73% of the total tonnage and 78% of the total shipments, transborder movements generated 47% of the total revenues earned and 49% of the total tonne-kilometres for these carriers.

Preliminary data are now available from the For-hire trucking (Commodity Origin and Destination) Survey for all quarters of 2000.

Available on CANSIM: table 4030001 and matrix 143.

As of September 14, Daily releases will refer only to CANSIM II table numbers. CANSIM II contains more than 2 million data time series depicting economic and social conditions in Canada. Data are updated on the day that new values for these series are released. Real-time access to CANSIM II is available on Statistics Canada's Web site (http://www.statcan.gc.ca) from the Our products and services page. For more information, contact Louis Boucher (613-951-8906; louis.boucher@statcan.gc.ca).

For more information, or to enquire about the concepts, methods and data quality of this release, contact Robert Laroque (613-951-2486; laroque@statcan.gc.ca) or Yves Gauthier (613-951-0188; fax: 613-951-0579; yves.gauthier@statcan.gc.ca), Transportation Division.