SAN DIEGO, Oct. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Today, the American Transportation Research Institute, the trucking business’s not-for-profit analysis group, launched its 18th annual Top Industry Issues report, figuring out the main business considerations together with gas costs, the driving force scarcity, truck parking, driver compensation, the economy and for the primary time, pace limiters.
“ATRI’s list is a true reflection of what it was like to be a trucker this year,” stated ATA Chairman Harold A. Sumerford Jr. “High fuel prices and finding drivers were two of our industry’s biggest challenges – challenges made more difficult by the economy and the continued lack of truck parking. Thankfully, ATRI doesn’t just tell us what the issues are, it provides a number of possible solutions that decision makers can use to address them.”
In a 12 months that noticed record-high gas prices, Fuel Prices had been ranked as the highest business concern, changing the Driver Shortage, which had been the primary challenge for 5 years in a row. This 12 months, the Driver Shortage was the second-ranked challenge, adopted by the dearth of accessible Truck Parking. Rounding out the highest 5 this 12 months had been Driver Compensation and the Economy.
With the discharge earlier this 12 months of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s Notice of Intent to enter right into a pace limiter rulemaking in 2023, Speed Limiters ranked within the prime ten this 12 months for the primary time, coming in ninth total and fifth amongst industrial driver respondents.
Over 47 % of the survey respondents had been skilled truck drivers and 39 % had been motor provider executives. Among driver respondents, Truck Parking, Fuel Prices and Driver Compensation had been the highest three considerations, whereas motor carriers ranked the Driver Shortage, Driver Retention and Fuel Prices as their prime three considerations.
More than 4,200 trucking business stakeholders participated on this 12 months’s survey, together with motor carriers, truck drivers, business suppliers, driver trainers, legislation enforcement, and others.
“This year’s survey had the highest number of responses to date, showing how committed our industry is to identifying the most critical concerns and more importantly, figuring out how we collectively deal with each issue,” stated ATRI President and COO Rebecca Brewster.
The full outcomes of the annual survey had been launched as a part of 2022 American Trucking Associations’ Management Conference and Exhibition. The full report might be discovered at ATRI’s website here.
ATRI is the trucking business’s 501(c)(3) not-for-profit analysis group. It is engaged in essential analysis regarding freight transportation’s important position in sustaining a protected, safe and environment friendly transportation system.
SOURCE American Transportation Research Institute
