Where our numbers come from.

Drivers average 119 minutes per pickup or drop-off waiting to be loaded or unloaded.

FreightWaves, SONAR wait-time data. Rachel Premack, "The surprising reasons why truck drivers wait hours unpaid," January 26, 2024. freightwaves.com

Each 15-minute increase in average dwell time increases the average expected crash rate by 6.2 percent.

U.S. Department of Transportation, Office of Inspector General. "Estimates Show Commercial Driver Detention Increases Crash Risks and Costs, but Current Data Limit Further Analysis," Report ST2018019, January 31, 2018. oig.dot.gov (PDF)

Detention is associated with $1.1 billion to $1.3 billion in lost annual earnings for truckload drivers.

USDOT Office of Inspector General, Report ST2018019, January 31, 2018. Same report as above. oig.dot.gov (PDF)

Detention cost the for-hire trucking industry $3.6 billion in direct expenses and $11.5 billion in lost productivity, more than 135 million hours, in 2023.

American Transportation Research Institute (ATRI), driver detention research, published September 2024. Reported by TruckingInfo, September 10, 2024.

Drivers experienced detention at 39 percent of stops, and more than two hours of detention at about 1 in 10 stops (9.9 percent).

ATRI, driver detention research (2023 data), September 2024. Reported by TruckingInfo, September 10, 2024.

Long-haul truck drivers average about 6.5 hours of driving per working day, out of 11 legally available driving hours.

MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics, Freight Lab (Dr. David Correll), analysis of roughly 4,000 over-the-road drivers' working hours, 2016 to 2019. MIT News, April 25, 2022; MIT CTL.

Less than one-third of shippers have access to drop-and-hook today.

NoDwell estimate, based on 22 years of operating experience with hundreds of shippers in truckload freight. Not an independent study.