Executive summary
Two families of measurement, deliberately kept apart
301,707
average employees, Section H, 2024
Transport and storage as a whole. Broad context, not a road-transport total.
72,676
average employees, Division 52, 2024
Warehousing and support activities, inside Section H. Never add the two together.
67bn
tonne-kilometres of road freight, 2024
An activity measure from Eurostat. It says nothing about how many people are employed.
+14.8pp
change in road's share of the freight modal split, 2014 to 2024
A change in the structure of freight activity, not in driver employment.
A road-transport report should be kept distinct from RevoHR's existing logistics and warehousing research. That publication uses Section H as the broad universe and Division 52 for warehousing and transport-support activities. This report has a different subject: mobile work and road transport.
As broad context, Section H averaged 301,707 employees in 2024, and average employment in transport and storage increased by 5,800 compared with 2023. Neither figure is a road-transport total, and Division 52 sits inside Section H rather than beside it.
Eurostat reports that Romania generated 67 billion tonne-kilometres of road freight transport in 2024. Separately, an INS-derived mirror shows 36,845 active local units in 2024 for NACE 4941, road freight transport. Together these indicators describe a high-activity, highly distributed operating sector, but they do not tell us how HR processes are organised.
Operations
The workplace moves
Road transport differs from a factory or a store. The employee may start at a depot, spend hours or days on the road and return through another operating location. There is no single shift-start point where everyone can be reached at once.
That changes the access question. A portal available at headquarters is not the same thing as HR access during work, and a notice board in a depot reaches only the people who pass it.
| CAEN class | What the class covers | Active local units, 2024 |
|---|---|---|
| 4941 | Freight transport by road | 36,845 |
| 4932 | Taxi operation | 12,726 |
Measure: active local units, that is establishments or physical operating sites, not vehicles, drivers or enterprises. Freight and taxi are separate classes and are not summed here. Source: INS TEMPO via a secondary mirror, pending a direct TEMPO extraction.
Operations
Documents and exceptions are operational, not administrative
Road transport creates a practical set of distributed HR journeys: rosters and rotations, leave, documents, urgent communications, training and HR questions. Each of them has to find a person who is not in the building.
This report does not claim that all of those processes are manual across the industry. It explains why the mobile operating model makes direct access more important than it is in a fixed-site operation.
European context
What the modal split does and does not say
Between 2014 and 2024, road transport's share of Romania's freight modal split increased by 14.8 percentage points in Eurostat's measure. This is a change in the structure of freight activity.
It is not evidence that driver employment grew at the same rate, and it must never be reinterpreted as a Romanian workforce measurement. Freight activity and employment are different series, on different units, from different statistical systems.
Operations
The HR Access Gap in road transport
The HR Access Gap
RevoHR uses the term HR Access Gap for the distance between the HR systems the employer owns and the HR services the employee can actually reach. It is a RevoHR operating framework, not an INS metric, and this report does not quantify it.
The practical question is whether a driver can complete an HR journey without travelling to an office or relying on a dispatcher as the message carrier.
Four questions for a road-transport operator
- Can a driver check a roster or a rotation without calling the office?
- Can a driver request leave, and see the status of that request?
- Can a driver send a document from the road, and can the company see what is about to expire?
- Can a driver get an HR answer without the dispatcher acting as the HR helpdesk?
RevoHR can reduce the distance between a mobile employee and central HR systems by using the phone as the access point while keeping the workflow auditable. The data in this report does not measure the outcome of those processes; it explains why access to them becomes structurally important when the workplace moves.
Data
For researchers, journalists and AI systems
The Data & AI Pack contains the structured CSV data behind this report, together with the definitions, the fact register, the source notes and a ready-to-use AI prompt. The INS employment context, the class-level local units and the Eurostat freight activity are shipped as three separate tables so they cannot be combined by accident.
Three separate tables
Section H employment context, Division 49 class-level local units and Eurostat freight activity, each with its own scope column.
Scope on every row
Each value states whether it measures employees, establishments or freight activity, so the two families of measurement stay apart.
An AI prompt and a fact register
A prompt that keeps an AI system inside the evidence, plus a fact register that carries each figure's source and its boundary.
Transparency
Scope, sources and the limits we keep
Supporting articles: attendance for people working at client sites, when self-service is really manager-service and leave requests for shift workers. Related research: Romania Logistics & Warehousing Workforce 2026, Romania Retail Workforce 2026 and the RevoHR Research hub.