Data from AMS Market News Specialty Crops Program, including weekly refrigerated truck rates and availability by origin, destination, and commodity. The Transportation Services Division assigns a broader region to the origins in order to join to refrigerated truck rate and availability data.

This data derives from USDA/AMS/Market News/Specialty Crops Program movement data, including only truck and import modes at domestic origins. It includes daily fruit and vegetable refrigerated truck volumes by origin district and commodity (from 2000 to 2010, data is weekly). The Transportation Services Division assigns a broader region to the origins in order to join to refrigerated truck rate and availability data.

The data is collected by AMS market reporters. Truck shipments for all commodities and origins are not available. Those obtainable are reported, but should not be interpreted as representing complete movements of a commodity. Truck shipments are collected at shipping points and include both inter and intrastate movements. They are obtained from various sources, including Federal marketing orders, administrative committees, Federal State inspection service and shippers. Methods used include telephone interviews, faxes, emails, and access to other data sources. The movement data is subject to adjustment as new information becomes available. The latest data will generally be under-reported until revisions are made. Updates to Market News Movement data can happen daily, weekly, monthly, and can happen at any time during the season. The Transportation Services Division updates our data from Market News weekly, including historical revisions.

This page shows visualizations from the "The Importance of Highways To U.S. Agriculture" report with a focus on commodity flows movements on key highway segments and the condition and performance of select highway corridors.

This data set contains current national and regional truck use indices which compare use in the current quarter to the same quarter last year. Current truck use is ranked on a scale of 1 to 5, with 1 being the lowest use and 5 being the highest use compared to same quarter last year.

Bar chart showing the top 20 refrigerated truck volume commodities over the past 30 days. Commodity totals are broken down by origin, and it includes filters for date and district.

This view is a query from the full refrigerated truck rates and availability dataset. The query calculates average truck rates by week and region, and by binning shipment distances into 0-500 miles, 501-1500 miles, 1501-2500 miles, and 2500+ mile groups.

Line chart showing a weekly aggregation of daily refrigerated truck volumes over time. Filterable by region and commodity.

Weekly aggregation of daily refrigerated truck volumes using Tuesday to define the week ending date in order to match with Refrigerated Truck Rate data.

The truck availability index tracks the trends in perceived ease of hiring a truck in the current quarter, compared to the same quarter last year as reported by grain elevators. An index of 1 indicates truck hiring is very easy compared to the same quarter last year while an index of 5 indicates truck hiring is very difficult compared to the same quarter last year.

This dataset contains data on bridge conditions and clearance for the study corridors in the Importance of Highways to U.S. Agriculture Report. The Volpe Center derived this study specific dataset from the Federal Highway Administration's (FHWA’s) National Bridge Inventory (NBI) data.