For-Hire Trucking (Commodity Origin and Destination) Survey

Tonnage carried by Canada-based long-distance for-hire carriers amounted to 305 million metric tonnes of freight in 2003, up 3.9% from 2002.

Although domestic activities accounted for 72% of the total tonnage and 78% of the total shipments, transborder movements generated 48% of the total revenues earned and 52% of the total tonne-kilometres for these carriers.

Preliminary data are now available from the For-Hire Trucking (Commodity Origin and Destination) Survey for 2003.

Available on CANSIM: table 403-0001.

Definitions, data sources and methods: survey number 2741.

For more information, or to enquire about the concepts, methods or data quality of this release contact Ron Chretien (613-951-8774; fax: 613-951-0579; ron.chretien@statcan.gc.ca) or Jan Patenaude (613-951-4889; fax: 613-951-0579; jan.patenaude@statcan.gc.ca), Transportation Division.