The American Transportation Research Institute (ATRI) is conducting its annual for-hire motor carrier data collection initiative to obtain truck-related operational costs for ATRI’s Operational Costs of Trucking report, the industry's leading public benchmarking tool. ATRI is seeking cost data for 2025 associated with operating a truck. Please note that the questions below are focused on TRACTOR-TRAILER combos only (not straight trucks).
All responses will be kept strictly confidential. Carriers with multiple operating fleets may submit data separately for each fleet. Owner-Operators will be linked to a new, streamlined form tailored to their operations.
All participants submitting a completed data collection form will receive a confidential, customized report that compares their costs and operations to an anonymized peer group of the same sector and size. New in 2026, customized reports for multi-year participants will also include year-over-year comparisons to more directly evaluate trends over time.
All responses will be kept strictly confidential. Carriers with multiple operating fleets may submit data separately for each fleet. Owner-Operators will be linked to a new, streamlined form tailored to their operations.
All participants submitting a completed data collection form will receive a confidential, customized report that compares their costs and operations to an anonymized peer group of the same sector and size. New in 2026, customized reports for multi-year participants will also include year-over-year comparisons to more directly evaluate trends over time.
Again, all collected data will be kept completely confidential. Personal, organizational, and/or financial information will never be released for public use under any circumstance. The final published report will only be presented in an aggregated, non-identifying format. As needed, ATRI will sign a confidentiality agreement.
For any of your costs that were equal to zero in 2025, please explicitly enter “0” in the submission box. If you have any questions, please contact Alex Leslie at aleslie@trucking.org or 651-641-6162 ext. 2.