ATRI Seeks Enter on Predatory Towing Practices – Fleet Administration
Recognizing persistent adverse affect of predatory towing practices on the trade, ATRI’s Analysis Advisory Committee recognized the necessity to higher perceive this downside as a prime analysis precedence.
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The American Transportation Analysis Institute issued a name for motor carriers and drivers to take part in a survey on the affect of predatory towing within the trucking trade.
Recognizing persistent adverse affect of predatory towing practices on the trade, ATRI’s Analysis Advisory Committee recognized the necessity to higher perceive this downside as a prime analysis precedence earlier this yr.
The survey asks fleets to share which varieties of predatory towing they cope with most continuously, what charges or delays they think about predatory, and through which states they’ve encountered predatory tows.
It additionally seeks members for a second spherical of extra detailed information assortment that can permit ATRI to quantify the frequency and operational affect of every sort of predatory occasion.
All information collected might be stored utterly confidential, in response to an ATRI press launch.
“Everyone knows that predatory towing is a matter, but till now there was no sturdy evaluation on how, when, and the place it occurs or the affect of laws designed to manage these predatory practices,” stated Cargo Transporters Vice President of Security Shawn Brown. “By collaborating in ATRI’s data-driven analysis, carriers might be serving to to reply these questions and description options.”
