This week I went to Manifest in Las Vegas to cover truck technology. The conference didn’t disappoint: Representatives from Torc Robotics, Outrider, Bot Auto and other key players in the industry were among over 6,000 participants. Below are some of my initial thoughts.
FreightLiner shows off kitted Cascadia and fleet support
One conversation I had at the conference was with an analyst at...
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ATRI’s ‘Critical Issues in the Trucking Industry’ report spotlights parking woes
The American Transportation Research Institute recently released its report outlining what over 3,700 industry stakeholder respondents across North America see as the most critical issues facing the trucking industry. The report remarks, “among respondents represented were motor carrier executives and personnel (45.9%), professional truck drivers (31.3%) and other industry stakeholders (22.8%),...
The 2024 survey of the top issues in trucking, undertaken each year by the American Transportation Research Institute, once again finds that what drivers think are the big issues aren’t the same as those of the industry as a whole.
Laying the results of what drivers say are the key issues in trucking against the results of the overall survey – in which driver submissions are part of the final ranking – shows that in 2024, only two issues made it on both the overall top 10 lists and the top 10...
Costs and Consequences of Truck Driver Detention: A Comprehensive Analysis
The American Transportation Research Institute recently released a report detailing the impacts and costs associated with truck driver detention. ATRI’s report defined detention as, “any time spent at a customer facility in which a driver is waiting for active operations to commence or resume is operationally considered detention, this research follows a standard industry definition of detention as any dwell...
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Everything is bigger in Texas, including traffic jams for truckers, according to the American Transportation Research Institute (ATRI).
ATRI released its 13th annual list Tuesday highlighting the most congested roadways for tractor-trailers across the country, and 13 Texas locations made the top 100, including nine in the Houston metropolitan area.
“Texans are no strangers to traffic congestion,” John D. Esparza, president and CEO of the Texas Trucking Association, said in a news release....
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/texas-again-has-highest-number-of-traffic-bottlenecks-for-truckers
A report released Monday by the American Transportation Research Institute (ATRI) examines the costs and potential impacts associated with California’s push for zero-emission vehicles. This report is a companion to a December 2022 ATRI report titled “Charging Infrastructure Challenges for the U.S. Electric Vehicle Fleet.” Both reports highlight that full vehicle fleet electrification would require substantially more...
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ATRI: Cost of congestion to trucking hits $94.6 billion
On Wednesday the American...
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