Warehousing and storage revenues grew 12 percent over 2001 to $15 billion. Truck transportation revenues were $198 billion in 2002, and courier and messenger services remained about the same as 2001, with revenues of $56 billion in 2002.

    The report, 2002 Service Annual Survey: Truck Transportation, Couriers and Messengers, and Warehousing and Storage, showed these highlights for employer firms:

• General freight trucking made up 65 percent of all trucking revenue, with $111 billion in revenues in 2002. Trucks transporting specialized freight (requiring equipment, such as flatbeds, tankers or refrigerated trailers) accounted for the remainder of revenue, at $59 billion.
  

• For-hire, long-distance general freight trucking reported revenues increased 2 percent to $95 billion in 2002.
  

• Long-distance, specialized freight trucking revenues dropped 7 percent to $19 billion.
  

• For-hire truck transporters reported that two-thirds, or $106 billion, of their motor carrier operating revenues came from long-distance trucking.
  

• Revenues for general warehousing and storage services increased 18 percent to $9 billion.
  

• Truck transportation excludes private motor carriers that operate as auxiliary establishments of nontransportation companies. Results of the survey also provide estimates for the cost of purchased transportation and inventories of revenue-generating equipment.

    Estimates in this report are based on data from the 2002 Service Annual Survey. They contain sampling and nonsampling errors. To keep the identity of an individual firm confidential, some estimates may be suppressed. Users making their own estimates, based on the survey estimates, should cite the U.S. Census Bureau as the source of the original estimates only. See <http://www.census.gov/econ/www/servmenu.html> for measures of sampling variability and other survey information.

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