Equipment
Business
Regulations
Life
Custom Rigs
Gear
Tag: congestion
Channel 19
Appreciation of a truck-parking joke — what’s it worth?
$5 — and a whole lot of wonder at the state of camaraderie among the nation’s truckers on the road today. A follow-up on the time Mike “Mustang” Crawford got $5 for a parking spot he was about to leave.
July 29, 2019
Overdrive Extra
When celebrating, don’t become a memorial yourself
Clifford Petersen reflects on the challenges of the holiday weekend — marked increase in motorist traffic, irresponsible on-highway moves and so much more. “Don’t let it be your last weekend as a professional because of poor judgement. Don’t become a memory for others to celebrate next year.”
May 27, 2019
Overdrive Extra
No time left for you: Bottlenecks and detention
Due to the recent findings in the ATRI study on the worst freight bottlenecks, it should be no surprise that infrastructure is a hot topic once again.
February 27, 2019
Business
George Washington Bridge leads 10 most congested freight bottlenecks in U.S.
Check out American Transportation Research Institute’s updated 2019 Top Truck Bottleneck List and see how traffic congestion impacts trucking on Overdrive.
February 12, 2019
Business
Highway congestion cost trucking $74.5 billion, 1.2 billion hours in 2016
ATRI’s Cost of Congestion to the Trucking Industry update found that congestion costs grew by $377 million in 2016 when compared to 2015.
October 19, 2018
Business
Georgia eyes trucks-only lanes on I-75 near Atlanta
The proposed lanes would allow trucks and other commercial vehicles to travel in barrier-separated lanes from four-wheel traffic. The preliminary proposal has the lanes going northbound only from approximately the I-75/I-475 interchange near Macon to the McDonough area just south of Atlanta.
February 21, 2018
Business
Atlanta leads 10 most congested freight bottlenecks in U.S.
Other junctions that appear in the top 10 include the George Washington Bridge, the Circle Interchange in Chicago, I-75/I-285 in Atlanta and more.
January 25, 2018
Business
TomTom: Five most congested cities cost fleets $1.7B annually
Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York, Seattle and San Jose are the five most traffic-congested cities in the U.S., according to TomTom Telematics research.
December 15, 2017
Business
This is why we can’t have celestial events
“It will be a blessing to be unable to view giant spaceships, as they descend upon us. It’s been nice knowing all of you. Give my rock collection to the children aliens, they’ll enjoy it.”
August 18, 2017
Channel 19
Extra amateur day on the roads for total eclipse, particularly in these areas
Will you be in the “zone of totality,” as the scientist-types are saying, this coming Monday for the solar eclilpse? More than one trucking company shutting down for the day anticipating an influx of that most unpredictable of highway users: the four-wheeled one.
August 15, 2017
Business
Cost of congestion for trucking in 2015: 1 billion hours, $63 billion
At the state level, Florida and Texas accounted for the most congestion with each totaling over $5 million in total cost of congestion. The two states combined to account for 16.5 percent of the nation’s total congestion cost.
May 16, 2017
Business
I-85 lanes closed indefinitely in Atlanta, causing major traffic disruptions
All lanes of I-85 north and south are closed indefinitely from the downtown connector to Georgia Highway 400. While most trucks are required to use I-285 to go around the city, the closure of one of the main thoroughfares out of Atlanta will cause backups on other routes.
March 31, 2017
Page 1 of 4
Next Page
