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ATRI Shows Operating Costs in the Trucking Industry Have Gone Down

The American Transportation Research Institute has released its 2020 update of “An Analysis of the Operational Costs of Trucking.” This tool gives insightful details about the finances of the trucking industry. This new update shows a slowdown of freight in the second half of 2019 along with a decrease in…


ATRI Releases Annual Top Industry Issues Report

The American Transportation Research Institute has released its 16th Critical Issues in the Trucking Industry report. 2020 was a year for the books when it comes to challenges within this industry, and ATRI has put together the top issues out there. The driver shortage has once again topped the main…




ATRI Asking Motor Carriers to Participate in Annual Report

The American Transportation Research Institute has put a call out for motor carriers to participate in their Operational Costs of Trucking report. This is ATRI’s 12th year of putting out this report and is one of their most requested. ATRI is asking for fleet metrics including driver pay, insurance premiums,…


ATRI Lists the 2020 Top Research Priorities

The American Transportation Research Institute Board of Directors has approved and released the 2020 Top Research Priorities. The following list of topics is made up of the current top industry issues. Click the link below to learn more about each one of these topics. Impact of Small Settlements on the…


Data Showing what COVID-19 is Doing to the Trucking Industry

The American Transportation Research Institute has put out some numbers regarding how COVID-19 has affected the trucking industry since early February. In that time period, across six states, there was a spike in truck activity at the very beginning of this ordeal to fill the response of high consumer demand….


ATRI Gives us GPS Truck Data Showing Changes in Truck Speeds

The American Transportation Research Institute has given us some numbers to show how trucks are doing out there on the roads during this health crisis. By using GPS from over 1 million trucks, their data shows that trucks are still moving, and they are moving faster than usual. With the…


ATRI Tells us Where the Top 100 Truck Bottlenecks are

The American Transportation Research Institute has put out a list of the Top 100 Truck Bottlenecks in the country for 2020. Since 2002, ATRI has been collecting data at specific locations by way of truck GPS to compile a dataset of freight movement on our nation’s highways. This data can…


Help the MAASTO Assess Truck Parking in the Midwest

The Mid America Association of State Transportation Officials would like to understand the truck parking situation in the Midwest. With help from the American Transportation Research Insititute, there is a survey at the link below to get trucker perspectives on the Truck Parking Information Management System installed throughout the states…