| "> | | | | reported in the for-hire trucking industry, there were |
| The vast Canadian country consists of miles of | | | | more than a quarter million truck drivers and overall |
| highway-road networks, airports, river docks and | | | | nearly half a million workers (including drivers) involved |
| railway lines purpose-built for the transportation of | | | | with trucking companies and freight forwarding |
| consumer and industrial goods as well as food grains | | | | businesses currently employed full-time within the |
| and raw material for the vastly spread Canadian | | | | trucking industry. There are approximately 10,000 |
| production industry. The most extensive and | | | | trucking companies operating in Canada which provide |
| comprehensive coverage in Canadian transportation is | | | | services to a variety of clients and these alone |
| provided by the Canadian trucking industry, which | | | | collect annual revenues amounting to nearly 30 Billion |
| consists of a network of overland freight forwarding | | | | dollars a year; while this number is closer to 70 billion |
| service providers tied in with a multitude of trucking | | | | dollars a year when non-hire (private / dedicated |
| companies which provide services throughout Canada | | | | trucking) systems, belonging to producers |
| from end-to-end. | | | | themselves, are included. To support transportation, |
| Overview | | | | there are over 900,000 Km of roads and over |
| In a verbal report to the House of Commons | | | | 40,000 Km of national highway spread across the |
| Standing Committee on Agriculture and agri-foods this | | | | country. |
| year (June 2nd 2009), The Canadian Trucking Alliance | | | | |