Washington — Truck drivers who spend time ready for cargo to be loaded or unloaded at buyer amenities – often known as “detention time” – are extra seemingly to journey at larger speeds than drivers who aren’t detained.

That’s in accordance to a latest research from the American Transportation Research Institute, the analysis arm of the American Trucking Associations, which represents employers.

Researchers analyzed GPS knowledge for giant vehicles at numerous buyer amenities. Findings present that drivers who have been detained drove 14.6% quicker on common than those that didn’t encounter detention time. Additionally, drivers drove quicker when heading to amenities the place they have been detained, “indicating that truck drivers know which firms and facilities will likely detain them,” an ATRI press launch states.

Driver-reported knowledge shows that truckers have been detained on 39.3% of all stops in 2023, with frequency larger for these transporting refrigerated trailers (56.2%).

Drivers have been detained between 117 and 209 hours every year, relying on their sector. For-hire truckers skilled greater than 135 million misplaced hours in 2023.

“Detention is so common that many industry professionals have accepted it as inevitable without realizing the true extent of its costs,” Chad England, CEO of trucking firm C.R. England, stated within the launch. “ATRI’s report puts real-world numbers to the true impact that truck driver detention has on trucking and the broader economy.”

Driver detention/delay ranked ninth within the 2023 version of ATRI’s annual survey on probably the most vital points going through the trucking business.