Transportation Modes
Trucking-Freight Systems
Trucking Research

Basic equipment required on all trailers

Study regarding the highly controversial and multifaceted truck size and weight (TS&W) issue

Lighting, conspicuity requirements for trucks in the USA

Dealing with road salt and corrosion

Federal regulations regarding truck-mounted auxiliary fuel tanks

Answers to common questions

Report estimates annual multifactor productivity in truck transportation in the USA from 1987 to 2003.

Integrates data from a variety of sources to estimate commodity flows and freight transportation activity.

What is needed to calculate long-term benefits of highway-freight infrastructural investment on a regional level.

Volume, value, productive patterns, safety and energy use information.

Use interactive map to identify national truck route priorities for truck stop electrification.

A study to determine the causes of, and contributing factors to, crashes involving commercial motor vehicles

Overview of large truck crash data by trends, vehicles, drivers, and crash environment.

Information regarding the safety of large trucks weighing more than 10,000 pounds

Trucks that pull several trailers, known as "longer combination vehicles" or LCVs

List of research papers and reports on international trade and freight movement.

Results of a comprehensive examination of issues surrounding current Federal TS&W) limits and potential changes

Industry data on estimate revenue, revenue sources and expenses.

Commercial trucking documents - Bureau of Transportation Statistics library documents

List of reports on freight analysis, freight operations