ATRI asks trucking trade to rank prime issues of 2023
Is dear gasoline nonetheless a much bigger concern for trucking than an absence of accessible drivers, driver retention or driver compensation? The American Transportation Analysis Institute desires to know.
ATRI this week rolled out its annual survey on probably the most urgent issues confronting the trucking trade.
The 2023 Prime Trade Points Survey will probably be open till Sept. 29, in keeping with ATRI, the analysis arm of the American Trucking Associations.
The survey outcomes will probably be revealed in an Oct. 14 presentation on the 2023 ATA Administration Convention & Exhibition in Austin, Texas.
Final yr’s survey noticed a significant upset within the rankings of trucking’s chief issues. After rating the driving force scarcity on the prime for 5 straight years, respondents reported excessive gasoline prices have been the trade’s largest downside in 2022.
The annual survey is essential to the trade’s understanding of the challenges dealing with the nation’s provide chain, Dan Van Alstine, ATA Chair and Ruan Transportation Administration Methods president and COO, stated in an announcement.
“ATRI’s analysis gives a chance for hundreds of trucking trade professionals, from drivers to executives, to weigh in on a very powerful subjects that have an effect on trucking and collectively resolve on the most effective methods for addressing every,” Van Alstine stated.
As a result of the survey asks respondents to determine their position within the trade, ATRI additionally places out separate lists of drivers’ and carriers’ prime issues. In 2022’s survey, drivers picked truck parking as their prime concern for the third straight yr, whereas driver points remained carriers’ largest issues.
Ken Duncan, an America’s Street Workforce Captain who drives for Walmart Transportation, inspired fellow drivers to fill out the survey in an announcement.
“Whether or not your prime problem is truck parking, driver compensation, detention, visitors congestion or one thing else, it solely takes a couple of minutes to make your voice heard and for us collectively to let the trade know what drivers are most involved about,” Duncan stated.
