American Transportation Research Institute

ATRI said that this annual analysis, which is now in its 19th year, ranks industry issues overall, as well as provide insights into how critical topics are ranked differently by both motor carriers and professional drivers, while also allowing industry stakeholders to monitor trucking industry issues over time in order to gain a better understanding of which issues are rising, or falling, in criticality.

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg recently pledged the Biden administration’s support for increasing the availability of safe parking options for America’s professional truck drivers through its Trucking Action Plan. That grants funding under the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and increases coordination with state departments of transportation and the trucking industry.

Inflation is one of the headwinds facing the US economy and consumers, and inflation is fueled, to some extent, by the national shortage of truck drivers; this shortage raises truck transportation prices, which show up in higher prices for every product.

Settle, if possible. Don’t take shortcuts on safety. Obviously, avoid truck accidents involving children by any means. And hope that somehow, some way, sensible tort reform is on its way into American courtrooms. Those are some of the suggestions from the American Transportation Research Institute’s (ATRI) new research that confirms that large verdicts against trucking fleets—so-called “nuclear verdicts”—are increasing dramatically, both in number and in size of awards.

Data released this week by the American Transportation Research Institute (ATRI), the trucking industry’s not for profit research organization, focused on the continued impacts of COVID-19 business disruptions on the trucking industry. This follows an ATRI release issued last month.

The American Transportation Research Institute's survey data collected in 2014 and 2018 shows that detention continues to be a significant issue for the trucking industry.

This American Transportation Research Institute report presents the findings of the 2019 annual survey and analysis and compares the findings of previous years’ results, providing insight into both the changing and emerging priorities of the trucking industry.

Embark is working to make the self-driving future a reality, and while most of the spectacle has been around passenger vehicles, Embark believes that commercial trucking, the backbone of the U.S. economy, stands to reap untold benefits by deploying autonomous trucks, particularly during the “long haul” stretches.

The driver of the truck that miraculously avoided plowing into the back of a school bus carrying 20 school girls is being hailed a hero after his quick thinking prevented a catastrophic pile up on Sydney Australia's M5 motorway.

The American Transportation Research Institute (ATRI) CSA research, "Assessing the Impact of Non-Preventable Crashes on CSA Scores" estimates non-preventable crash costs exceed $68 million for the 15 carriers in the analysis.

To address these findings, the industry will need to develop a program that specifically targets younger generations of workers with appropriate messaging, including the benefits of a career in trucking.

Trucks transported nearly 10 billion tons of freight representing over two-thirds of total domestic tonnage shipped, and traveled more than 279 billion miles on the nation’s roadway network in 2014.

Traffic congestion on the U.S. National Highway System added over $49.6 billion in operational costs to the trucking industry in 2014, according to research released by the American Transportation Research Institute.

The American Transportation Research Institute (ATRI) released its latest CSA research, "Assessing the Impact of Non-Preventable Crashes on CSA Scores" - ATRI investigated the impact that excluding non-preventable crashes would have on motor carrier CSA Crash Indicator BASIC measures.

With a combination of retirements and people exiting the industry, carriers need to recruit in roughly 100,000 drivers per year over the next decade to simply keep pace with projected United States freight needs.