2024 Facts for Drivers OCR - Copy_23-23.pdf

control for moving their own goods. ‘Their principal business activity is something other than transportation. For-hire carriers are those trucking companies providing transporta- tion of freight owned by another party. For-hire operations are of several types: interstate, intrastate or local. Most...

control for moving their own goods. ‘Their principal business activity is something other than transportation. For-hire carriers are those trucking companies providing transporta- tion of freight owned by another party. For-hire operations are of several types: interstate, intrastate or local. Most intrastate trucking, and even some local operations, will involve interstate commerce, and thus usually come under federal regulation by FMCSA. Traditionally, motor carriers have engaged predominantly in either local or intrastate operations. As a generally accepted rule, a carrier is a local carrier if at least half tts business 1s conducted in metropolitan or commercial zone operations. Interstate carriers transport cargo that has or will cross state lines. Many are also known as line-haul or over-the-road carriers — in almost all cases they also conduct local pick-up and delivery opera- tions. Since 1980, many traditionally local carriers expanded their operations. Similarly, many traditionally “interstate” carriers have acquired local operations. Whether private or for-hire, generally, a motor carrier can be characterized as a truckload (TL) or less than truckload (LTL) carrier. A truckload carrier is one that dedicates trailers to a single shipper's cargo, as opposed to an LIL carrier that transports the consolidated cargo of several shippers and makes multiple deliveries. Currently, regulated freight carriers are classified by FMCSA based on Bross annual revenues: « Class I carriers have gross annual revenues of $10 million or greater; « Class IT carriers have gross annual revenues of between 33 million and $10 million; and « Class II] carriers have less than $3 million in gross annual revenues. The Highway System There are over 4.19 million miles of highways and roads in the United States. These roads are functionally classified as arterials, collectors, 3