HAUL OF FAME

If you’re moving goods from A to B, you’re almost certainly doing it on 18 wheels: More than 90% of all transportation of products within the United States is by truck. Those big rigs hemming you in on I-95? They’re likely full of laptops, cans of tuna, thresher parts, bagged salad, gasoline and automobiles. (Not all in the same truck, presumably.)

Top Freight Shipped by Dollar Value, 2017

1. Motorized vehicles (complete cars, pickups, car and truck bodies, truck cabs): $903.9 bil

2. Electronics (personal computers, servers, laptops, mainframes): $587.6 bil

3. Gasoline: $586.8 bil

4. Misc. Foodstuffs (fruits, vegetables, dry goods, canned goods): $585.9 bil

5. Machinery (farm and construction equipment, oil/gas machinery, woodworking/paper equipment): $510.6 bil

Sources: Bureau of Transportation Statistics; Federal Highway Administration’s Freight Analysis Framework.