Canadian truckers account for 90% of shipping industry
CANADA – Canadian truckers account for a large majority of the goods and products that are shipped across, out of and into Canada each day.
The Canadian Trucking Alliance (CTA) is a federation of provincial associations, representing a broad cross-section of the trucking industry of roughly 4,500 carriers, owner-operators and industry suppliers.
According to the CTA, it is estimated that over 90 per cent of all consumer products and food are shipped by truck, either solely or in part.
Trucking in general is a $65-billion industry overall.
Canadian for-hire carriers move over 225 billion tonne-kilometres of freight and over 80% of total tonnage shipped intra-provincially.
Typically, over 10 million trucks cross the Canada-U.S. border each year with the value of goods increasin.
