Maryland Motor Trucking Association

The trucking industry drives Maryland's economy, delivering the goods and creating good jobs for our citizens.

• The trucking industry employs 148,000 people in Maryland—one out of every seventeen workers.
• Trucking pays over $6.9 billion annually in wages and salaries—an average of $46,475 for each employee, far higher than the state's overall average wage.
• Maryland has over 170,000 CDL holders.

• Trucks move 90% of the manufactured freight moving in and out of Maryland each year.
• Every business day, trucks move 533,000 tons of essential goods, such as clothing, electronics, farm supplies, and household necessities.
• Trucking serves every community in Maryland. Over 93% of all Maryland communities depend exclusively on trucks for freight service, making our state one of the most truck-dependent states in the country.

• Continuing efforts by the Maryland trucking industry to improve safety for all highway users through better regulation and enforcement, as well as public education and driver training, have succeeded. Heavy trucks in Maryland are involved in less than 10% of all accidents.

• Maryland law enforcement officers inspect over 95,000 trucks each year.
• The national fatal accident rate for heavy trucks is at its lowest point since the U.S. Department of Transportation began keeping these statistics in 1975.

• An operator of a typical five-axle tractor trailer pays $15,872 in state and federal highway user taxes. That includes $6,913 paid directly to the state of Maryland.
• The Maryland trucking industry pays $552 million in state and federal taxes and fees each year, or 31 percent of all taxes and fees paid by all motorists, even though trucks represent only 7.7% of the vehicle miles traveled in the state.