{"id":3609,"date":"2023-10-27T16:20:58","date_gmt":"2023-10-27T16:20:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/congestion-costs-industry-7k-per-truck-atri\/"},"modified":"2025-01-10T16:41:57","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T16:41:57","slug":"congestion-costs-industry-7k-per-truck-atri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/fr\/congestion-costs-industry-7k-per-truck-atri\/","title":{"rendered":"Congestion Costs Industry $7k Per Truck: ATRI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"vertical-align: baseline;\">Highway traffic congestion cost the trucking industry an additional $94.6 billion in 2021, marking the highest level ever recorded by the American Transportation Research Institute (ATRI) in its latest report.<\/p>\n<p style=\"vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 2rem auto;\">Traffic and delays sacrificed 1.27 billion hours in productivity in the US, with average congestion costs calculated at almost $7,000 per truck. (All figures in USD.) More than 6.7 billion US gallons (25.4 billion liters) of diesel were wasted, worth more than $22 billion.<\/p>\n<p style=\"vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 2rem auto;\">The 2021 congestion numbers and costs represent a\u00a027% increase from the report\u2019s baseline year of 2016 \u2013 twice the rate of inflation. \u201cThis level of delay equates to\u00a0more than 460,000 commercial truck drivers sitting idle for one work year,\u201d ATRI says.<\/p>\n<p style=\"vertical-align: baseline;\">Even though congestion-related costs decreased in 2020 due to the pandemic, they rose sharply the next year. This can be explained by several factors, including GDP growth that reached 5.7% in 2021, the highest growth rate since 1984, the institute says.<\/p>\n<p style=\"vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 2rem auto;\">Recovery from the pandemic played a role, too. Consumer spending returned, driving up prices and leading to inflation. Lifting work-from-home requirements caused increased commuter traffic. Diesel prices also increased, just like trucking rates and volumes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"vertical-align: baseline;\">ATRI concluded that California was the state with the highest congestion costs, seeing an 80% increase since 2016. It is followed by Texas, which had the highest costs six years ago.<\/p>\n<p style=\"vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 2rem auto;\">\u201cOver the last several years, our industry has experienced some of the most dramatic increases in operating costs, including fuel, labor and equipment,\u201d\u00a0said\u00a0Michael Lasko, vice-president of EHS and quality at Boyle Transportation, in a press release.<\/p>\n<p style=\"vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 2rem auto;\">\u201cImagine how those costs are magnified by sitting still in traffic. We all should keep in mind that those costs are passed down directly to consumers resulting in higher prices for goods and services throughout the economy.\u00a0 Hopefully, we can leverage the new infrastructure spending to get our supply chains moving again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"vertical-align: baseline;\">Access the full <a href=\"https:\/\/truckingresearch.org\/2023\/10\/cost-of-congestion-to-the-trucking-industry-2023-update\/\">report here<\/a>:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Highway traffic congestion cost the trucking industry an additional $94.6 billion in 2021, marking the highest level ever recorded by the American Transportation Research Institute (ATRI) in its latest report&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":677,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[252],"tags":[88,399,89,59,298],"class_list":["post-3609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-infrastructure","tag-atri","tag-congestion","tag-costs","tag-highways","tag-traffic"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3609\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}