ATRI’s Annual High Business Points Survey Underway

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The American Transportation Analysis Institute has launched its annual High Business Points Survey, asking stakeholders to rank their high considerations together with potential methods for addressing them.

In its 18th yr, the 2022 survey not solely ranks the problems total but additionally gives insights into how essential matters are seen in another way by motor carriers {and professional} drivers.

The survey additionally permits stakeholders to observe points over time to higher perceive which of them are rising, falling and most pressing. The outcomes will probably be launched Oct. 22 as a part of American Trucking Associations’ Administration Convention & Exhibition in San Diego.

“The annual High Business Points Survey has lengthy been an important a part of understanding the problems dealing with our nation’s provide chain,” stated ATA Chairman Harold Sumerford, Jr., CEO of J&M Tank Traces Inc. “ATRI’s analysis gives an opportunity for hundreds of trucking business professionals, from drivers to executives, to weigh in on a very powerful matters that have an effect on trucking and collectively resolve on the most effective methods for addressing every,”

Steve Fields, an America’s Highway Crew captain {and professional} truck driver for Yellow, stated, “I encourage my fellow drivers to take a couple of minutes and full the High Business Points Survey. Whether or not your high challenge is truck parking, driver compensation, detention, site 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 business know what drivers are most involved about.”

The survey (https://www.analysis.web/r/2022-High-Business-Points) will stay open by Oct 7.

Final yr, for the fifth yr in a row, the worsening scarcity of drivers led ATRI’s record of high business considerations.

In line with the 2021 ATRI report, considerations over the driving force scarcity garnered greater than 4 occasions as many first-place votes because the No. 2 challenge, driver retention. Rating third was driver compensation, adopted by lawsuit abuse reform in fourth and the dearth of obtainable truck parking in fifth. The scarcity of diesel technicians made the record for the primary time, touchdown in tenth place.

As soon as once more, respondents are requested to pick out their three high selections from a listing of 28 or they will supply points that aren’t included. The sum whole of factors for every challenge is used to generate a prioritized record of high business considerations.

Greater than 600 responses had been collected Sept. 7, the primary day of the survey, ATRI Senior Vice President Dan Murray stated.

“One of the crucial highly effective facets of the survey is that it’s an vital barometer for what’s coming and what’s going, what’s rising and falling,” he stated. “It additionally offers truckers concepts of the place they need to put their cash. So it turns into an important device for us in that regard. There’s sufficient chaos within the market proper now that I feel individuals need to vent, they need to remark.”

Greater than 2,500 business stakeholders throughout North America weighed in with their opinions on a very powerful points affecting trucking in 2021. The respondents represented motor provider personnel, business truck drivers and different stakeholders.

Proposed methods voiced by members included advocating for expedited launch of the DRIVE Secure Act pilot program to develop interstate CDL eligibility for 18- to 20-year-olds, creating outreach initiatives focused towards highschool college students and younger adults and advocating for enlargement of the U.S. EB-3 Everlasting Work Authorization allow to recruit certified candidates from different international locations.

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