02.13.08
The Lucrative Business of Freight Hauling
Business just astounds me sometimes. I love learning about how things got started; what was the driving force behind innovations and advancements. I just recently learned some interesting things about the trucking/freight hauler business. I first found all of this when I was looking up “Utah Transport”.
In the 1900s, trains were the mode of product transportation. Trains were efficient, effective, and could haul a great amount of product. The only problem was that trains could only deliver to centralized urban centers. From there, the product was then delivered to its final destination by horse-drawn vehicles.
A few years later, during World War II, the military needed new ways to transport supplies to the troops because the railroads were already so backed up. This is where they started experimenting with long-distance shipments using trucks with rubber tires.
By 1920, there was over a million freight trucks on the American roads. Then in 2006, there was an estimated 26 million freight trucks in the United States. Now that is a lucrative business.