Snapshots of US Commercial Trucking: Trends in For Hire & Private Carriage Between 1977-2021

Location

Oyate Hall

Event Website

https://2026undergraduateresearchsy.sched.com/event/2Ix9E/snapshots-of-us-commercial-trucking-trends-in-for-hire-private-carriage-between-1977-2021

Start Date

15-4-2026 6:00 PM

End Date

15-4-2026 8:00 PM

Description

This project leverages the quinquennial Vehicle Inventory and Use Survey (VIUS), conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau, to produce descriptive statistics on the composition and characteristics of the US commercial trucking fleet from 1977 to 2021. Our project expands on prior work utilizing VIUS, incorporating additional data collected in 2002 and 2021. We integrate new waves of observations by transforming data collected in prior years to reflect changes in economic classification systems which occur between 1997 and 2002 and again between 2001 and 2021. Our work enables a detailed descriptive analysis of long-run trends in the utilization of private and for hire shipping and provides a foundation for future research in the evolution of productivity in commercial trucking.

Publication Date

2026

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Snapshots of US Commercial Trucking: Trends in For Hire & Private Carriage Between 1977-2021

Oyate Hall

This project leverages the quinquennial Vehicle Inventory and Use Survey (VIUS), conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau, to produce descriptive statistics on the composition and characteristics of the US commercial trucking fleet from 1977 to 2021. Our project expands on prior work utilizing VIUS, incorporating additional data collected in 2002 and 2021. We integrate new waves of observations by transforming data collected in prior years to reflect changes in economic classification systems which occur between 1997 and 2002 and again between 2001 and 2021. Our work enables a detailed descriptive analysis of long-run trends in the utilization of private and for hire shipping and provides a foundation for future research in the evolution of productivity in commercial trucking.

https://digitalcommons.morris.umn.edu/urs_event/2026/posters/4