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In 2013, we undertook a one-off project to capture the size, diversity and economic importance of the trucking industry by presenting a broad collection of relevant data from as wide a variety of sources as we could identify. That first "Trucking by the Numbers" was a project that took months of research, analysis and simple hard work, but it proved so popular that we quickly decided to make it an annual event. "Trucking By the Numbers 2016" - our fourth installment-is our longest report yet, filling 17 pages with statistically based information drawn from an expanded pool of sources.
Despite the amount of research involved, what follows is not intended to be the type of focused study produced by the industry's many professional and academic analysts, nor does it offer...