ATRI Releases Annual List of Top 100 Truck Bottlenecks

The American Transportation Research Institute today released its annual list highlighting the most congested bottlenecks for trucks in America.

The 2019 Top Truck Bottleneck List assesses the level of truck-oriented congestion at 300 locations on the national highway system.  The analysis, based on truck GPS data from nearly 1 million heavy duty trucks uses several customized software applications and analysis methods, along with terabytes of data from trucking operations, to produce a congestion impact ranking for each location. 

“Congestion is a persistent issue for our industry and our company specifically,” said Rich McArdle, president of UPS Freight. “For UPS, if all of our vehicles are delayed just five minutes a day, every day, it costs our company $114 million a year. In order to combat congestion, many companies must plan operational redundancies to meet their customer needs. Using data like ATRI’s bottleneck report can help both companies and elected officials to make more informed decisions.” 

For the first time since 2014, the intersection of I-95 and SR 4 in Fort Lee, New Jersey is back on top as the Number One freight bottleneck in the country.  The rest of the Top 10 includes:

2.   Atlanta: I-285 at I-85 (North)
3.   Atlanta: I-75 at I-285 (North)
4.   Los Angeles: SR 60 at SR 57
5.   Houston: I-45 at I-69/US 59
6.   Cincinnati: I-71 at I-75
7.   Chicago: I-290 at I-90/I-94 
8.   Nashville: I-24/I-40 at I-440 (East)
9.   Atlanta: I-20 at I-285 (West)
10. Los Angeles: I-710 at I-105

ATRI’s analysis found that year-over-year truck speeds across the top 10 locations dropped by an average of nearly 9 percent as congestion worsened along the nation’s busiest freight roadways. 

For access to the full report, including detailed information on each of the 100 top congested locations, please visit ATRI’s website by clicking here.