Hours of Service: Trucking’s Top Concern – Again
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Industry Asked to Rank Top Concerns
Arlington, VA – The American Transportation Research Institute (ATRI), the trucking industry’s not-for-profit research organization, today launched the 2015 Top Industry Issues Survey. The annual survey, commissioned by the American Trucking Associations (ATA), asks trucking industry stakeholders to rank the top issues of concern for the industry along with appropriate strategies for addressing each issue. The survey is in its 11th year and participation by trucking stakeholders has grown each year.
“In complex times like this it is critical that we do our part to help ensure a thriving future for the trucking industry,” said ATA Chairman Duane Long, Chairman of Longistics. “With your participation, we can speak with a collective industry voice on the issues most important to us.” The results of the 2015 survey will be released at the ATA Annual Management Conference and Exhibition, to be held October 17-20, 2015 in Philadelphia.
Industry stakeholders are encouraged to complete the survey from the website by clicking here.
ATRI is the trucking industry’s 501(c)(3) not-for-profit research organization. It is engaged in critical research relating to freight transportation’s essential role in maintaining a safe, secure and efficient transportation system.
There is Still Time to Complete ATRI’s Operational Costs of Trucking Survey
The American Transportation Research Institute’s 2015 Operational Costs of Trucking survey is still open for response. Through a brief online survey, ATRI seeks to capture basic cost information from for-hire carriers such as driver pay, fuel costs, insurance premiums and lease or purchase payments. Carriers are asked to provide full year 2014 cost per mile and cost per hour data.
There has been a great response from carriers so far and we would like to thank everyone who has completed the survey. I
f you have not submitted your information yet, please take a few minutes to complete the confidential survey online at www.atri-online.org.
For-Hire Motor Carriers Asked to Participate in Operational Costs Survey
Arlington, VA – The American Transportation Research Institute (ATRI) today launched its annual data collection to update the 2014 Operational Costs of Trucking report. The brief on-line survey seeks to capture basic cost information from for-hire motor carriers such as driver pay, fuel costs, insurance premiums and lease or purchase payments. Carriers are asked to provide full-year 2014 cost per mile and cost per hour data.
The results of this survey, combined with the previous Operational Costs of Trucking reports, will yield seven full years (2008 – 2014) of trucking cost information derived directly from fleet operations. This research provides carriers with an important high-level benchmarking tool and government agencies with real world data for future infrastructure improvement analyses.
For-hire motor carriers are encouraged to provide confidential operational cost data through ATRI’s survey, available online at www.atri-online.org. The results of this study will be available later this year.
ATRI is the trucking industry’s 501(c)(3) not-for-profit research organization. It is engaged in critical research relating to freight transportation’s essential role in maintaining a safe, secure and efficient transportation system.
ATRI lists top US truck freight congestion locations
The American Transportation Research Institute (ATRI) released the findings of its 2014 Congestion Impact Analysis of Freight-Significant Highway Locations. The research, which assesses the level of truck-oriented congestion at 250 locations on the national highway system, uses several customized software applications and analysis methods, along with terabytes of data from trucking operations to produce a congestion impact ranking for each location.
The data is also used in conjunction with the Federal Highway Administration-sponsored Freight Performance Measures (FPM) initiative. The locations detailed in this latest ATRI report represent the top 100 congested locations.
The number one spot on the ATRI list this year is the George Washington Bridge that connects New York and New Jersey. It surpassed the perennial first-place holder, Chicago’s Circle Interchange (#2 on the list). ATRI’s analysis points to construction on the top deck of the George Washington Bridge which created significant delays for trucks in 2013.
The top ten on ATRI’s list are, in rank order:
1. Fort Lee NJ: I-95 AT SR 4
2. Chicago IL: I-290 AT I-90/I-94
3. Atlanta GA: I-285 AT I-85 (NORTH)
4. Cincinnati OH: I-71 AT I-75
5. Houston TX: I-45 AT US 59
6. Houston TX: I-610 AT US 290
7. St Louis MO: I-70 AT I-64 (WEST)
8. Los Angeles CA: SR 60 AT SR 57
9. Louisville KY: I-65 AT I-64/I-71
10. Austin TX: I-35
“ATRI’s identification of congestion impacts at freight-significant locations is a critical tool in the transportation planning toolbox,” said Matt Hart, president of the Illinois Trucking Association and a member of ATRI’s Research Advisory Committee. “Better-informed decisions mean more targeted infrastructure investment at critical freight nodes. Here in Illinois, we’re seeing first-hand how ATRI’s identification of the Circle Interchange as the number one freight bottleneck in previous studies led to a significant state investment to fix the chokepoint.”
For access to the full report, including detailed information on each of the 100 top congested locations, visit www.atri-online.org.