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Table 1
Trucking and Railroad Share of the Major Commodity Shipments in the United States: 1997

(Commodity Flow Survey Data Only)

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SCTG code	Top 10 commodity groupings	All modes	Trucking	Rail	Trucking share (%)	Rail share (%)
	By value ($billions)
	All commodities	6,944	4,982	320	71.7	4.6
35	Electronic, electrical equipment, and office equipment	870	484	3	55.7	0.3
36	Motorized and other vehicles (including parts)	571	367	77	64.2	13.5
40	Miscellaneous manufactured products	421	268	3	63.7	0.6
34	Machinery	417	320	6	76.7	1.5
30	Textiles, leather, and articles of textiles or leather	379	293	0.47	77.4	0.1
7	Other prepared foodstuffs and fats and oils	346	319	13	92.2	3.8
32	Base metal in primary or semifinished forms	286	242	26	84.7	9.1
24	Plastics and rubber	279	219	21	78.5	7.6
29	Printed products	260	178	0.27	68.4	0.1
41	Mixed freight	230	219	–	95	–
	By tonnage (millions)
	All commodities	11,090	7,701	1,550	69.4	14
12	Gravel and crushed stone	1,815	1,672	51	92.1	2.8
15	Coal	1,217	217	687	17.8	56.5
17	Gasoline and aviation turbine fuel	963	518	5	53.8	0.6
31	Nonmetallic mineral products	910	860	23	94.5	2.5
2	Cereal grains	490	189	142	38.5	29.1
18	Fuel oils	482	244	7	50.7	1.4
19	Coal and petroleum products, n.e.c.	475	281	62	59.2	13
11	Natural sands	443	413	11	93.4	2.5
7	Other prepared foodstuffs and fats and oils	397	348	32	87.6	8.1
25	Logs and other wood in the rough	371	349	7	94	2
	By ton-miles (billions)
	All commodities	2,661	1,024	1,023	38.5	38.4
15	Coal	542	9	439	1.7	81
2	Cereal grains	201	18	116	9.1	58
20	Basic chemicals	137	34	69	24.7	50.8
17	Gasoline and aviation turbine fuel	137	29	3	21.5	2.1
7	Other prepared foodstuffs and fats and oils	124	79	34	63.5	27
32	Base metal in primary or semifinished forms	117	68	36	57.5	30.9
26	Wood products	97	52	36	53.9	36.7
12	Gravel and crushed stone	93	58	11	62.8	11.8
31	Nonmetallic mineral products	91	64	14	69.7	15.4
27	Pulp, newsprint, paper, and paperboard	84	44	35	52.3	42.3

NOTE: – = data do not meet publication standards because of sampling variability or other reasons; n.e.c. = not elsewhere classified; SCTG = Standard Classification of Transported Goods.

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Transportation, Bureau of Transportation Statistics and U.S. Department of Commerce, U.S. Census Bureau, 1997 Commodity Flow Survey, United States, EC97TCF-US (Washington, DC: 1999).

Table 1 Trucking and Railroad Share of the Major Commodity Shipments in the United States: 1997

Table 1
Trucking and Railroad Share of the Major Commodity Shipments in the United States: 1997