Highlighted Research
Hours-of-Service Research
- Costs and Consequences of Truck Driver Detention: A Comprehensive Analysis 09/2024
- Driver Detention Impacts on Safety and Productivity 09/2019
- ATRI Hours-of-Service Flexibility Technical Memo 08/2018
- Quantifying Impacts from the 34-hr Restart Provision – April 2015 04/2015
- ATRI Technical Memorandum on the FMCSA Field Study 04/2014
- Operational and Economic Impacts of the New Hours-of-Service 11/2013
- Assessing the Impacts of the 34-Hour Restart Provisions 06/2013
- Hours-of-Service Rules Safety Impacts: 2010 Analysis 05/2010
- Safety and Health Impacts of the New Hours-of-Service 03/2006
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ATRI Launches Research on Regulatory Benefit-Cost Models
Washington, D.C. – The American Transportation Research Institute (ATRI), the trucking industry’s not-for-profit research organization, has commenced research to develop a framework for assessing the impacts of trucking industry regulations. The framework development will initially be focused on Assessing the Costs and Benefits of Hours-of-Service (HOS) and the Electronic Logging Device (ELD) Mandate. Industry stakeholders, including motor carriers, truck drivers, and law enforcement, are all encouraged to take the HOS / ELD survey.

New Research Documents Substantial Financial and Safety Impacts from Truck Driver Detention
The American Transportation Research Institute (ATRI) today released a new report that quantifies the major consequences that truck driver detention at customer facilities has on industry productivity and safety. The research quantifies the direct costs for fleets, truck drivers and supply chains in general. It also corroborates previous research that detained trucks drive faster both after, and before, a detained trip occurs.

ATRI Issues Call for Truck Drivers to Participate in Detention Survey
The American Transportation Research Institute today issued a call for truck drivers to provide data on their detention experiences at customer facilities. This latest data collection is part of a larger ATRI study examining the effects of detention on the trucking industry.

