The Trucking Industry’s Top 10 Hours-of-Service continues to dominate concerns in trucking
By Rebecca M. Brewster Guest Writer
For the past decade, the American
Trucking Associations has turned to the American Transportation Research Institute (ATRI) to survey trucking industry stakeholders to identify the top issues of concern. The dynamic shifting of industry priorities over the past ten years demonstrates the complexity of operating in an industry so vital to the economy yet so impacted by forces out- side of our immediate control. In the early years of the survey, the
rising cost and limited availability of fuel registered as a top concern, along with the driver shortage. With the onset of the Great Recession, the economy first emerged as an industry concern in 2008 and spent three years as the number one industry issue from 2009 – 2011. Other issues in the survey’s early years but which have since dropped off the top 10 list include truck security, driver training, insurance costs and environmental issues. While still rep- resenting significant challenges for the industry, these issues have been eclipsed by emerging concerns including the lack of available truck parking, the upcom- ing Electronic Logging Device (ELD) mandate and commercial driver health and wellness. In the survey’s first six years, indus-
try stakeholder concern over the grow- ing scope of federal and state oversight of trucking was captured as one issue, Government Regulations, which peaked in 2009 at the number two spot on the survey. However, that concern disag- gregated into several stand-alone issues in more recent years, among them
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THE HOURS-OF-SERVICE (HOS) RULES CONTINUE TO DOMINATE THE COLLECTIVE INDUSTRY’S CONCERN, AND THAT LEVEL OF CONCERN HAS BEEN CLOSELY TIED TO THE IMPACTS OF FEDERAL RULEMAKING, REGULATION CHANGES, RULE VACATING AND THE MOST RECENT CHANGES TO THE RULES, WHICH WENT INTO EFFECT IN 2013.
hours-of-service and the deployment of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s Compliance, Safety, Accountability (CSA) program. CSA first appeared on the top industry issues list in 2010, ranking second overall, and it has continued to rank in the top five issues since.
One issue has been on the list, and
among the top five concerns annually, since the survey started in 2005. The hours-of-service (HOS) rules continue to dominate the collective industry’s concern, and that level of concern has been closely tied to the impacts of fed- eral rulemaking, regulation changes,
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