4.Average Trip Length Will Be Reduced
By truckers report we can also see that this situation is already visible now at this moment. While before OTR trucking companies were able to find a load that is 2000 miles long lately over the last years or so it is not easy to find one at all. When you find a single load that has 2000 or even more miles in a row you consider yourself happy.
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By adapting to the newly made changes in trucking business companies are able to reduce the average length of trips. By reducing the average length of the trip trucking companies at the same time are reducing the costs and are improving their services. This way they have achieved to satisfy both- the customers and the truck drivers. Truck drivers were waiting for this change to happen for years.
On the positive side trucking companies will ease their work and will make the deliveries in smaller amounts.
Trucking business is one of the most important if not the most important in USA, there are around 3 million people that is in the trucking sector, so reducing the length of the trip and keeping everybody satisfied is of a great importance.
Reason for this is that companies and rental truck chains changed the way they run business in a big way. All of their effort is now invested into reducing costs and optimizing performance. That by consequence has that they put a lot of pressure on trucking companies in the area of good delivery requesting a lot more often but smaller deliveries which then impact the load length.
Instead of going one long they take few shorter trips and truckers report will be easier to get prepared.
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Thereupon, by going on few shorter trips instead of going on one long trip will also reduce traffic accidents and will improve the safety of truck drivers and other passengers on the road.
Although there are rules and regulations about the drive time for truck drivers, there are some that are not respecting that in order to earn more money. And by reducing the trips from longer to shorter, truck drivers even if they don’t want to they will have to make breaks between the trips. So we can see reducing the trip length can bring us only positive things.
