The U.S. trucking industry will continue to expand in the coming 11 years, after a dip during the financial crisis, as shippers shift their focus from rail to trucks, a trade group projected.

Trucking will comprise 70 percent of total freight tonnage in 2022, compared with 67 percent in 2010, according to the forecast published by the American trucking Associations (ATA) in collaboration with IHS Global Insight and Martin Labbe Associates.

Rail transport's share of the freight economy will fall to 14.6 percent in 2022 from 15.3 percent last year, the forecast added.

Domestic waterborne transportation will show very modest growth in the coming 11 years, with a 2-percent-a-year rise until 2016 which will dip to a 0.2 percent growth rate in the remaining six years, ATA said. (Reuters)