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Trucking rates have been rising for nearly a year amid supply-chain snarls and a spending comeback.
What goes up must come down, and trucking goes through a crunch every few years.
Analysts said structural changes to the industry will cause bankruptcies whenever the market cools.
Trucking is riding high, or as Morgan Stanley analysts recently put it, soaking up the sun. The sun, in this case, is hot, hot pricing, which is warming the balance sheets of nearly every kind of trucking company.
ATRI outlines research priorities for 2021
The American Transportation Research Institute will focus its research this year on under-21 truck drivers, electric trucks, marijuana decriminalization, driver-facing cameras and zero-emission trucks. The ATRI Board of Directors approved the list of research topics at a recent meeting.
ATRI’s Research Advisory Committee selected research topics that examine workforce, infrastructure, legal and operational issues, which align with multiple top concerns identified in ATRI’s annual Top Industry Issues survey. Additionally, given the heightened attention on electric vehicles, two of the top priority studies will examine specific trucking impacts arising from increased deployment of electric trucks.