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Thanks to clean diesel technology, 60 modern-day trucks put out the equivalent emission of a single truck from 1988.
If you could line up all U.S. trucks, they would reach the moon.
In 2022, the total market size of the truckload industry in the United States is expected to reach over 250 billion U.S. dollars.
Trucks need about 40 percent more stopping time compared to a car – that means they need about three football fields of room to come to a complete stop at highway speeds.
The trucking industry is booming and expected to increase by 21 percent by 2022, and since this is a multi-billion dollar industry with stable pay and job security, it is a worthy career choice to consider for young adults or anyone looking for an exciting career change.
While mud flaps installed behind the wheels of a semi-truck help prevent dirt, mud, and other types of road debris from creating a safety road hazard for vehicles traveling behind the truck, they can also reduce drag. Wind resistance can reduce a semi-truck’s fuel efficiency by as much as one-third.
In the U.S. there are more than 3.2 million long-haul truck drivers that hold Class A driver’s licenses.
The Class A level permits drivers to pilot vehicles with a gross vehicle weight rating of more than 26,000 pounds.

Trucking is the activity of transporting goods from one place to another using trucks. A commercial truck used about 20,500 gallons of fuel per year, compared to about 500 gallons for a standard car. Consider that the next time you feel the pain at the pump!
Trucks haul:
83% of farming and agriculture, 91% of lumber and wood, (22% of canned items and dairy, 65% of pharmaceutical essentials).
Everything you own, use, eat, is brought to you by truck. Without trucks America STOPS!
The average trucker will drive over 100,000 miles per year. That works out to nearly 40 trips across the United States.
7.95 million people work in the trucking industry in some way.
In April 2020, there were a total of 799,342 private carriers on file.
Trucks moved a total of $772 billion worth of freight in 2019.
6.7% of the truck drivers in the U.S are women.
41.5% of the trucking industry drivers are minorities.
The average age of drivers in the trucking industry is 46 years old.
To combat the driver shortage, the industry will need to hire about 1.1 million new drivers for the next decade or an average of 110,000 drivers per year.
Trucking is the most common profession in 29 U.S. states.
The average truck’s engine has between 400-600 horsepower.

The maximum weight an 18-wheeler can hold without special permits is 80,000 pounds.
To put this crazy fact about semis into perspective for you, that’s about 23 small-sized cars, or roughly 450 people.

1 Last-Minute Merging. Trucks aren't small.
2 Being a Sidecar. If you're planning on passing, just do it.
3 Jumping Ahead at the Light. It's always tempting to get ahead of someone at the stop light.
4 Inching Up at Intersections.
5 Breaking After You Pass.
6 Passing on the Right.

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