The American Transportation Research Institute (ATRI) is asking fleets to participate in its Operational Costs of Trucking report. The online survey seeks to capture basic cost information from for-hire carriers such as driver pay, fuel costs, insurance premiums and lease or purchase payments. Carriers are asked to provide full year 2012 cost per mile and/or cost per hour data.
The results of the ATRI survey, combined with previous Operational Costs of Trucking reports, will yield five full years (2008-2012) of trucking cost information derived directly from fleet operations. Operational cost data that for-hire motor carriers provide will be kept strictly confidential.