Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS)
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Table 3-6 :  Truck Shipments from Pennsylvania by Commodity: 1997

(Descending order by weight)

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Commodity (2-digit commodity code) Value ($ millions) Weight (thousand short tons)
Gravel and crushed stone (12) 766 108,566
Nonmetallic mineral products (31) 6,747 59,786
Coal (15) 1,033 43,845
Coal and petroleum products, n.e.c. (19) 2,635 21,211
Other prepared foodstuffs and fats and oils (07)                                                21,768 17,690
Gasoline and aviation turbine fuel (17)                                                      4,480 16,159
Base metal in primary or semifinished forms and in finished basic shapes (32) 17,988 14,706
Fuel oils (18)                                                                                  3,090 14,228
Natural sands (11) 94 10,677
Waste and scrap (41) 1,850 8,399
Articles of base metal (33) 10,826 6,097
Wood products (26)                                                                              3,796 7,255
Other agricultural products (03)                                                                4,580 7,247
Paper or paperboard articles (28)                                                               6,512 4,697
Printed products (29)                                                                          18,123 4,694
Mixed freight (43) 8,198 4,560
Pulp, newsprint, paper, and paperboard (27) 5,474 4,536
Plastics and rubber (24) 11,035 4,108
Basic chemicals (20) 4,097 4,041
All other commodities 87,547 66,114
Total, all commodities 220,639 428,616

KEY: n.e.c. = not elsewhere classified.

NOTE: There are 41 two-digit Standard Classification of Transported Goods (SCTG) commodity codes.

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Transportation, Bureau of Transportation Statistics and U.S. Department of Commerce, U.S. Census Bureau, 1997 Commodity Flow Survey, Washington, DC: 2000, data from CD-ROM, CD-EC97-CFS.



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