TRUCKING DRIVES THE ECONOMY • EMPLOYMENT: In 2013, the trucking industry in Nebraska provided 63,150 jobs or one out of 12 in the state. Total trucking industry wages paid in Nebraska in 2013 exceeded $2.7 billion, with an average annual trucking industry salary of $43,677. Te U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported in May 2013 that truck drivers, heavy, tractor-trailer and light, delivery drivers, held 30,550 jobs with a mean annual salary of $35,290.
• SMALL BUSINESS EMPHASIS: As of April 2014, there were 9,330 trucking companies located in Nebraska, most of them small, locally owned businesses. Tese companies are served by a wide range of supporting businesses both large and small.
• TRANSPORTATION OF ESSENTIAL PRODUCTS: Trucks transported 76 percent of total manufactured tonnage in the state in 2010 or 155,303 tons per day. 48 percent of Nebraska communities depend exclusively on trucks to move their goods.
TRUCKING PAYS THE FREIGHT • AS AN INDUSTRY: In 2013, the trucking industry in Nebraska paid approximately $298 million in federal and state roadway taxes. Te industry paid 46 percent of all taxes owed by Nebraska motorists, despite trucks representing only 12 percent of vehicle miles traveled in the state.
• INDIVIDUAL COMPANIES: As of January 2014, a typical five-axle tractor-semitrailer combination paid $5,553 in state highway user fees and taxes in addition to $8,906 in federal user fees and taxes. Tese taxes were over and above the typical taxes paid by businesses in Nebraska.
• ROADWAY USE: In 2013, Nebraska had 93,770 miles of public roads over which all motorists traveled 19 billion miles. Trucking’s use of the public roads was 2.3 billion miles.
* Manufactured tonnage data provided by IHS Global Insight. Updated March 2015 with most recent data available
20 NEBRASKA TRUCKER — ISSUE 2, 2015 —
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