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NEW RESEARCH PREDICTS AUTONOMOUS TRUCKS TO
TAKE NEARLY 300,000 JOBS IN NEXT DECADE
An article in the Journal of the American
Association of State Highway and
Transportation Officials (AASHTO) says
new research predicts autonomous
trucks could replace nearly 300,000
long-haul drivers over the next 10 years.
The 73-page research report authored by Steve
Viscelli, a sociologist at the University of Pennsylvania,
and issued by Center for Labor Research and
Education at the University of California, Berkeley,
and Working Partnerships USA on September 5,
projects that autonomous trucks could replace as
many as 294,000 long-distance truck driving jobs
over the next decade, while also fostering the creation
of new highway infrastructure dubbed “autonomous
truck ports” or ATPs.
The report — titled “Driverless? Autonomous
Trucks and the Future of the American Trucker,” added
that while “many other freight-moving jobs will
be created in their place, perhaps even more than
will be lost,” those new jobs will be lower-paying local
driving and last-mile delivery jobs, the Journal
article stated.
“Many industry experts and developers expect
that self-driving trucks will soon be able to drive autonomously
on the highway, but that it will take far
longer — perhaps several decades — before driverless
trucks will be able to routinely navigate local
streets packed with cars, pedestrians, cyclists, road
work, and other unexpected challenges,” Viscelli
noted in the study.
“Humans will also be needed to handle the many
non-driving tasks — coupling tractors and trailers,
fueling, inspections, paperwork, communicating
with customers, loading and unloading, etc. — that
drivers currently perform,” he added. “Therefore,
the most likely scenario for widespread adoption
involves local human drivers bringing trailers from
factories or warehouses to ATPs located on the outskirts
of cities next to major interstate exits. Here,
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they will swap the trailers over to autonomous tractors
for long stretches of highway driving. At the
other end, the process will happen in reverse: A human
driver will pick up the trailer at an ATP and take
it to the final destination.”
Viscelli referenced a 2013 study by investment
firm Morgan Stanley regarding the potential savings
offered by the broader deployment of autonomous
trucks; a savings of $168 billion to the trucking
industry comprised of $70 billion in labor savings,
$35 billion in fuel savings, $27 billion in productivity
gains — largely because autonomous trucks could
operate “around the clock” without the need for rest
and sleep breaks for human drivers — plus $36 billion
in accident reduction savings.
“Analysis like this suggests a strong economic
argument for trucking as a lead sector of autonomous
vehicle technology,” he added. “But even
the most optimistic developers believe we are
still at least several years away from autonomous
trucks operating even in limited highway operations
in anything other than testing programs with
drivers still behind the wheel. Important challenges
in both hardware and computer science need
to be overcome before autonomous trucks are
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able to operate safely and reliably.”
But Viscelli also said that “it is conceivable that
autonomous trucks could double the productivity
of long-haul trucks for highway segments,” which
would also reduce traffic congestion and boost the
efficiency of current road networks — without having
to add capacity, though the use of ATPs, if such
structures came to be built, would create a new set
of transportation infrastructure challenges.
“For many of the scenarios profiled in this report,
autonomous trucking ports were identified as a
critical piece of our country’s evolving logistics infrastructure.
[But] the growth of e-commerce and
regional automated port infrastructure could lead to
more underpaid and overworked drivers working in
unsafe conditions, while adding to traffic congestion
and poor air quality in communities across the nation,”
Viscelli wrote.
“In order to allow local agencies to better protect
their communities and local job quality, greater local
control over port facilities should be codified to
manage air quality and traffic congestion, ensure
drivers are paid livable wages and have safe work
environments, and ensure labor peace to protect
the efficiency of our nation’s logistics system,” he
said. ITJ
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The new ComfortPro electric auxiliary
power unit from Carrier Transicold
provides quiet, emissions-free truck cab
UP AND
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Carrier Transicold’s new electric ComfortPro APU
offers quiet, extra-long run time
cooling while delivering one of the longest
run-times in a battery-powered APU, the
company said in releasing the product.
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The ComfortPro
electric APU is powered
by four absorbent glass
mat batteries that are
charged by the truck’s
alternator, said a Carrier
news release, adding that
the ComfortPro APU
provides 7,500 Btu/h of
air conditioning for up to
11 hours.
“Since it is an engineless
system, the ComfortPro
electric APU provides
air conditioning comfort
without fuel consumption,
idling noise and related
emissions,” said Ryan
Rubly, product manager
of alternative power for
Carrier Transicold. “The
ComfortPro electric APU
also uniquely locates the refrigerant
compressor outside the truck cab, which
contributes to extremely quiet operation.”
With a simpler design than enginedriven
APU systems and only a few
moving parts, there is less to service with
a ComfortPro electric APU — there is no
engine-related maintenance such as oil,
fuel or air filter changes, Rubly said.
As an air conditioning system, the
ComfortPro electric model offers an
economical path to APU ownership and is
relatively easy to install, the release said.
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“Carrier Transicold offers various options
to expand capabilities for heating, power
for hotel loads, shore power connectivity
and truck engine preheating, allowing
users to customize the unit to meet
individual needs.”
When providing cab climate control
and other functions, APUs reduce truck
engine idling, helping drivers comply with
local and regional anti-idling regulations
while saving fuel and reducing wear
and tear on their truck engines, Rubly
said, adding that the emissions-free
performance can help drivers and fleets
in California, where additional exhaust
treatment is generally required for dieselpowered
APU applications.
Assembled by Carrier Transicold in
Athens, Georgia, the new ComfortPro
electric APUs are installed and supported
by Carrier Transicold’s dealer network.
Additional details on ComfortPro
electric APUs can be found in a new
12-page brochure, available online
from Carrier Transicold at carrier.com/
comfortpro-electric.
For more information, or to schedule
an installation, turn to the experts in
Carrier Transicold’s North America
dealer network.
Carrier Transicold is a part of UTC
Climate, Controls and Security, a unit of
United Technologies Corp.
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ATRI study: Using flexible split sleeper
berth saves drivers time, money, is
more restful
Having a little wiggle room can come in handy.
The “Urban Dictionary” defines wiggle room as “flexibility,”
and a “reduction or elimination of a burden
that makes things hard.”
The American Transportation Research Institute
(ATRI) says their new study finds that a little wiggle
room in the Hours of Service regulations will save
truck drivers both time and money, not to mention
provide more restful operations.
Researchers at ATRI, an arm of the American
Trucking Associations, began with the premise that
under the current HOS, drivers who take a break to
avoid congestion lose valuable work hours. But being
able to split sleeper berth time into 7/3, 6/4 or 5/5
periods to avoid congestion could let them get needed
rest and avoid slow-moving traffic at peak travel times
— a win-win.
The analysis compares two trip scenarios, each
traveling 585 miles from North Carolina to Alabama
and each going through the 40-mile freight-heavy
urban corridor that is Atlanta, a city Southern Living
columnist Rick Bragg says, “has sent more truck drivers
to the cardiologist than Little Debbie.”
Driver A used the current HOS while Driver B used
a more flexible model allowing for a four-hour rest
period to avoid the congestion.
For the study, ATRI researchers not only wanted
a highly congested area, but one that had limited
alternate routes, one that had both free-flowing traffic
and stop-and-go traffic, and one that was “freight
significant.”
They used truck GPS data to identify a sample of
3,600 truck trips that traversed the 40-mile congestion
corridor, calculating average speeds and travel times
by hour of day for each truck trip and “quantified
significant congested periods that last[ed] well beyond
two hours.”
Also, “lost time and operational costs were calculated
for each hour of the day,” and the peak period
calculations “were found to be more than double the
time and cost of off-peak travel.”
No surprise, there.
Also not surprisingly, they found morning and
afternoon rush hours had the lowest average speeds
and highest travel times across the 40-mile congested
area.
Using their own previous study, “Analysis of the
Operational Costs of Trucking,” which found the
average cost per hour is $63.68, ATRI’s flexible HOS
research showed that the lowest cost was $42.32 for
trips that began between 1 and 1:59 a.m., and the
highest was $99.11 for trips that started between 4
and 4:59 p.m., right in the rush-hour crunch. The cost
difference between the trips at those two times of day
was $56.79.
The cost-per-trip per hour was multiplied by 1,000
trips distributed across the day, with congestion adding
estimated costs of $15,496 per 1,000 trips.
Then, assuming there are 250 non-holiday weekdays
per year, the annual congestion cost was figured
to be $3.8 million, with drivers spending an added
60,185 hours of driving annually, researchers found.
They said if only 25 trucks per day were able to
avoid the congestion in the study corridor, commercial
truckers would have to spend 4,700 fewer hours in
traffic and save $300,000 in operational costs per year.
And, they estimated that a more flexible HOS
could reduce a “conservative” 2.3 million hours of
drive time annually for truckers.
In the study ATRI used another of its own reports
on the country’s worst bottlenecks showing that going
through Atlanta, the best average speed was 58.5
mph. The worst average speed was 16.7 mph, and the
time it took to navigate through the congestion added
25.74 minutes.
Columnist Bragg calls traveling through Atlanta
moving at the speed of warm lead.
On a more scientific note, “If a driver can move
freight from point A to point B along an urban highway
at an average speed of 58.5 mph rather than 16.7
mph, he or she will spend less time behind the wheel
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to travel the same distance,” researchers concluded.
In a flexible HOS scenario, a driver spent from 9 to
10:29 a.m. in trip preparation, drove from 10:30 a.m.
to 3:29 p.m., stopped to rest during peak congestion
from 3:30 to 7:29 p.m. (getting four hours of rest);
drove on in post rush-hour traffic from 7:30 p.m. until
12:29 a.m., got six more hours of rest from 12:30 to
6:59 a.m., and had “extra rest” time to use at will —
from 6:30 to 8:59 a.m. Then it was time to start day
two of driving.
Using the current rules scenario, the driver began
on-duty status at 9 a.m., conducted pre-trip and loading
activities for an hour and a half and rolled out of
Burlington, North Carolina, at 10:30 a.m.
Averaging 58.4 mph for the first 3 ½ hours of
driving, he started looking for a rest stop and took his
mandatory 30-minute rest break from 2 to 2:29 p.m.
after five hours on-duty.
He started driving again at 2:30 p.m., which put
him entering the congested Atlanta area at 4:30 p.m.
when the average speed is 25.8 mph and the added
cost because of delay is $53.00. It took him about 1
½ hours to navigate the 40-mile stretch of stop-andgo
traffic.
He ended his driving at 9:45 p.m. with a preplanned
stop at a rest area near Boligee, Alabama,
with 1 hour and 14.5 minutes of drive time left, shaving
it close had he encountered a wreck, construction
or other delay.
Then he had to start out again at 9 a.m. to reach his
delivery appointment on time.
ATRI concluded that both the 7/3 and 5/5 sleeper
berth splits ensure that trucks traveling through the
congested corridor could maintain travel speeds of at
least 49 mph instead of the 25.8 mph average with the
current HOS, and allow the trip to be completed in
less than an hour.
Goodyear Tire & Rubber opens nominations
for annual Goodyear Highway Hero Awards
Do you know a professional truck driver who has
performed a heroic deed during the course of his or
her daily work?
The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company wants to
hear about it.
Goodyear is accepting nominations for its annual
Highway Hero Award through November 29.
Established in 1983, the Goodyear Highway Hero
Award honors truck drivers who have put themselves
in harm’s way to help others.
“As we join the trucking industry in celebrating
National Truck Driver Appreciation Week (NTDAW),
we recognize truck drivers and the role they play
in keeping our economy and way of life rolling,”
Gary Medalis, Goodyear marketing director, said in
making the announcement during NTDAW. “But
these professionals deliver more than just goods and
services. They are often first responders to on-highway
incidents, even before emergency crews arrive on the
scene — taking decisive action to save lives.”
To nominate a candidate for the Goodyear
Highway Hero Award, go to goodyeartrucktire.com/
newsroom/highway-heroes/nominate, fill out the
nomination form, and press the submit button, which
will send the nomination directly to Goodyear.
Past Goodyear Highway Hero Award winners
include a truck driver who rescued a law enforcement
officer who was being strangled by a prisoner he was
transporting, a truck driver who dove into a pond to
pull a child from a sinking car, and others.
This year’s Goodyear Highway Hero Award
winner, Frank Vieira, saved the life of a motorist who
suffered a severe injury after crashing his vehicle into
the back of a truck.
Goodyear will announce the next recipient of its
Highway Hero Award in March 2019.
The award winner will receive a special ring, a cash
award and a congratulatory trophy. Each of the other
Goodyear Highway Hero Award finalists will receive
a cash prize and other items.
To be considered for the Goodyear Highway Hero
Award, candidates must meet the following criteria:
• Must be a full-time truck driver
• Must reside in the U.S. or Canada
• The heroic incident must have happened in the
U.S. or Canada
• Nominee’s truck must have had 12 wheels or
more at the time of the incident
• Nominee must have been on the job — or on the
way to or from work, in his or her truck — at the time
of the incident, and
• The incident must have taken place between
November 16, 2017, and November 16, 2018.
A panel consisting of members of the trucking
industry trade media will select the next Goodyear
Highway Hero. ITJ
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