over 80 percent of all communities in the us rely exclusively on trucks to deliver all of their fuel, clothing, medicine, and other consumer goods. the trucking industry employs 10 million people (out of a total national population of 300 million) in jobs that relate directly to trucking. the trucking industry is the industry of small business, considering 93 percent of interstate motor carriers (over 500,000) operate 20 or fewer trucks.