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New Jersey Trucking Facts |
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* 86% of New Jersey communities are served exclusively by trucks.
* Truck -dependent industries employ 43% of New Jersey's workers.
* In 2000, 252,559 people in New Jersey - one out of every 14 workers - were employed in trucking occupations at private and for-hire motor carriers.
* Freight transportation providers, warehouses and distribution centers employ over 484,000 New Jersey workers.
* The average annual wage paid to the state's trucking industry workers was $39,096 and the total annual payroll was $9.1 billion.
* Over 20,369 family-owned and corporate trucking businesses with interstate operations are based in the state.
* In 1998, 260.1 million tons of manufactured freight was transported into and out of New Jersey by truck.
* 67% of the freight tonnage originating in New Jersey - stays in New Jersey
* On a daily basis, trucks moved an average of 519,416 tons of inbound freight and 481,085 tons of outbound freight.
* Trucks carry 80% of all manufactured freight transported in New Jersey.
* Trucks move most of the state's goods, yet medium and large trucks account for less than 2% of vehicle registrations.
* Color New Jersey trucks green -less than 6% of trucks failed the New Jersey Diesel Emission Test
* New Jersey's truck fatal accident record of .09 per million miles traveled fell below the national average of 1.5 between 1996 to 1999.
* Over 80% of truck accidents were caused by a passenger vehicle in 1999.
 TRUCKS DELIVER NEW JERSEY
Trucks deliver goods to:
* 12,370 manufacturing companies
* 50,180 retail stores
* 27,130 wholesale companies
* 100% of New Jersey's fruit and vegetable shipments in 1999
– 78 million pounds
In New Jersey, the primary commodities carried by trucks are as follows:
* Building Materials * Farm Products
* Mixed Cargoes (general freight) * Transportation Equipment
* Processed Foods * Household Goods
* Machinery * Petroleum
TRUCKS AND TAXES
Businesses in New Jersey are subject to state corporate income taxes (9.0% flat rate) and state sales taxes (6.0%). In addition, private and for-hire motor carriers pay the following highway user taxes:
In 2000, the trucking industry in New Jersey paid approximately $544 million in Federal and state roadway taxes and fees, or 31 percent of all taxes and fees paid by all motorists.
The trucking industry paid 31 percent of all federal and state roadway user fees and taxes in while only traveling six percent of all vehicle miles.
In 2004, a typical five-axle tractor-semitrailer combination paid $,4910 in state highway user fees and taxes. This ranks New Jersey 42nd in the nation in terms of state fees and taxes.
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