Trucks carried $109 billion (yaani about 10,900 crore dollars) of freight between the United States and its two neighbours in August 2026, up 29.8% from August 2025, according to the U.S. Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) transborder freight release.

Source: U.S. Bureau of Transportation Statistics

Total transborder freight by all modes was valued at $160.6 billion (yaani about 16,060 crore dollars) in August, up 22.6% from a year earlier. Trucks moved roughly two-thirds of that total by value, and their growth rate was more than triple that of rail.

Mexico is the bigger border, Canada the second lane

Freight between the U.S. and Mexico totalled $94.3 billion in August, up 26.7% from a year earlier, while U.S.–Canada freight was $66.3 billion, up 17.1%, the BTS figures show. On the Mexican border, trucks moved $73.9 billion of the total — about 78% — while on the Canadian border trucks moved $35.2 billion, about 53%, with pipelines, rail and vessels carrying a larger share in the north.

Source: Gain Consulting analysis of BTS data

TheTrucker, reporting the same BTS release on October 22, summarised it as: trucks hauled $109 billion in freight across the United States' borders with Canada and Mexico in August 2026, a 29.8% increase compared with the same month a year earlier.

Source: TheTrucker

Why it matters for Punjabi truckers

For the many Punjabi-origin owner-operators and fleet drivers who run cross-border lanes — especially through Detroit, Buffalo and Laredo, named by BTS among the top truck ports in earlier releases — a near-30% jump in truck freight value means fuller order books but also tighter capacity, rate pressure and direct exposure to diesel prices and a smaller driver pool, as the Gain analysis of the BTS data notes. These are current-dollar merchandise values, not inflation-adjusted figures, and they measure the value of goods moving, not the number of truck crossings.