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 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.

Quarterly average refrigerated truck rates ($/mile, $/truckload) from origin shipping areas to destination receiving city.

Quarterly totals of refrigerated truck load volumes (tonnage) from U.S. origin shipping areas and cross-border movements from Mexico and Canada for individual fruit and vegetable varieties.

Note: Entries marked zero tons were registered commodity movements, but the sum of all shipment volumes totaled less than 1 ton.

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

Bar chart showing the most recent availability by district. It is based on query from the full refrigerated truck rate and availability dataset, filtered to include only the latest week of data.

Query from the full refrigerated truck rate and availability data, filtered to include only the latest week of data.

This filtered view joins the refrigerated truck rate and volume data to calculate a weighted average rate per mile (rpm). Quarterly average rates are weighted by regional volume shares in that quarter. Mileage categories are: a) local–500 miles and less, b) short distance–between 501 and 1,500 miles, c) medium distance–between 1,501 and 2,500 miles, and d) long distance–greater than 2,500 miles.

Weekly spot market availability for refrigerated truck movements at origin shipping areas for individual commodities. Availability is represented numerically as 1 = “Shortage”, 2 = “Slight Shortage”, 3 = “Adequate”, 4 = “Slight Surplus”, 5 = “Surplus”.