U.S. freight trucking: share of marginal costs 2008-2020

This statistic depicts the share of freight trucking costs in the United Sates between 2008 and 200, broken down by type. In 2020, driver wages constituted the highest share of total marginal costs at 34 percent.

Distribution of costs in freight trucking in the United States from 2008 to 2020, by type

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November 2021

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United States

Survey time period

2008 to 2020

Supplementary notes

Some values do not total 100 percent due to rounding.
Values prior to 2012 were taken from a previous edition.

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