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.

This data set contains weekly average grain hopper rates for 13 major routes important for grain transportation.

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 chart shows average weekly hopper rates for select routes for trips that originated and terminated within 150 miles of the origin and destination cities. Use the filters on the right to choose a specific date, origin state, origin city, destination state and destination city.

This story shows Brazilian transportation costs of moving grain from inland elevators to ports and for export to Europe and China.

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.

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 dataset contains data on original and post-calibration mileposts, Traffic Message Channel location codes (TMC), Truck Travel Time Reliability Index, Travel Time Index (TTI), TMC mileage, and corridor identification segment for the destination to origin direction of the National Performance Monitoring Research Data Set (NPMRDS) network.

This dataset contains data on selected annual performance characteristics for the study corridors in the Importance of Highways to U.S. Agriculture Report. The dataset includes through lanes, annual average daily traffic (AADT), pavement condition, functional class of vehicles, National Highway System (NHS) designation, urban /rural designation, route number and corridor segment identification. The Volpe Center derived this study specific dataset from the Federal Highway Administration's (FHWA’s) Highway Performance Monitoring System (HPMS) data.

Weekly on-highway diesel prices (dollars per gallon) from the Department of Energy's Energy Information Administration. This data includes the average diesel fuel price for the U.S. and five Petroleum Administration for Defense Districts (PADDs) (including PADD subcomponents). There are ten variables in total: "U.S."; "East Coast" (PADD1), broken out further by "New England" (PADD1A), "Central Atlantic" (PADD1B), and "Lower Atlantic" (PADD1C); "Midwest" (PADD2); "Gulf Coast" (PADD3); "Rocky Mountain" (PADD4); and "West Coast" (PADD5), broken out further by "West Coast excluding California" and "California." See link below for the states included in each region.