The paper is organized into four sections. The first section introduces the data used for the analysis while the second provides a brief synopsis of the role of trucking in the Canadian economy. The third section contains a summary of the changes that have come about, at least partly, due to…
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Product type: Table
Product source: Statistics Canada
Product type: Table
Product source: Statistics Canada
Private carriers are businesses that maintain a fleet of trucks to carry their own goods. The motor carriers of freight, private carriers survey covers those private carriers with at least $1 million in annual operating expenses that can provide separate accounting information for their trucking…
Product type: Table
Product source: Statistics Canada
After the double-digit growth experienced in 1993 and 1994, trucking activity by Canada-based for-hire carriers with annual intercity revenues of at least $1.0 million increased at a more moderate rate in 1995 and 1996.
Transportation/Road transportation/Trucking industry;…
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Product source: Statistics Canada
Sixty-seven Top Canada-based for-hire motor carriers (those with annual revenues over $25 million) posted operating ratios of 0.95 and 0.96 respectively in the third and fourth quarter of 1996. These ratios are identical to those for the same period in 1995. By type of trucking activity, there…
Product type: Reference
Product source: Statistics Canada
This survey collects data on monthly retail sales (in dollars and in units) of new motor vehicles sold in Canada.
Retail and wholesale/Retail sales by type of product;Retail and wholesale/Retail sales by type of store;Transportation/Road transportation/Motor vehicles
Product type: Reference
Product source: Statistics Canada
This study deals with the introduction of the newly developed North American Industry Classification system (NAICS), and its impact on the Trucking surveys at Statistics Canada. This paper provides an overview of the uses and needs of an industry classification system and the processes involved…
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Product source: Statistics Canada
This article will show how the operating ratio of for-hire motor carriers of Freight has improved in the second half of 1997.
Transportation/Road transportation/Trucking industry;Business performance and ownership/Financial statements and performance/Financial performance
Product type: Table
Product source: Statistics Canada
This paper first describes the statistical tools used to make these measurements. We will then present the results obtained by applying these tools to the financial databases for the years 1993 to 1996 derived from the Annual Motor Carriers of Freight Survey, conducted by Transportation Division…
Product type: Analysis
Product source: Statistics Canada
Issues affecting the transportation industry impact on the day to day concerns of Canadians. Changes in policy affecting transportation and trade have altered the landscape for the primary mode of commodity transport, trucking. Economic factors typically affecting the demand for trucking…
Product type: Analysis
Product source: Statistics Canada
If you've got it, a truck brought it." When you stop to think about it, an increasing number of the things we use are transported to market for at least part of the way, by truck. The trucking industry is becoming increasingly important to the transportation sector of the Canadian economy. This…