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Kentucky Trucker 15 KyTrucking.net third in 2019. This is likely attributable to the fact that fleets across the country are responding to the driver shortage by significantly increasing driver pay. It also appears that different driver compensation mod- els are expanding, namely salary-plus, per-load and percentage-of-load. While drivers are benefiting from increased pay, there is concern that driver compensa- tion has not kept pace with inflation and that drivers are not compensated adequately for non-driving duties such as detention wait times. Another first-time issue on ATRI’s annual survey, Detention/Delay at Customer Facilities ranks fourth overall. The impacts of excessive customer detention are numerous and have a direct nexus to many of the other issues among the top 10 including HOS, driver compensation, Truck Parking and the ELD Mandate. In ATRI’s recent study quantifying detention impacts, drivers reported a 27.4% increase in delays of six or more hours between 2014 and 2018. Delays of six or more hours have cascading impacts on a driver’s ability to comply with the HOS rules, negatively affects their earnings, and can force drivers to park in unauthorized or undesignated parking if they run out of available on-duty hours before reaching a safe parking location. Truck parking held on to its fifth-place ranking in 2019. The lack of available truck parking creates a dan- gerous and costly dilemma for truck drivers who are often forced to drive beyond allowable HOS rules or park in undesignated and, in many cases, unsafe loca- tions. The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) is currently updating the 2015 Jason’s Law Truck Parking Survey Results and Comparative Analysis, and more than 25 states have completed or are currently under- taking truck parking studies. The challenges are well documented and concern with Truck Parking kept the issue at the No. 5 position once again in 2019. The remaining issues in the 2019 survey are: #6 driver retention; #7 ELD mandate; #8 CSA; #9 Transportation Infrastructure/Congestion/Funding; #10 Economy. 2019 ATRI Top Industry Issues Truck parking held on to its fifth-place ranking in 2019. The lack of available truck parking creates a dangerous and costly dilemma for truck drivers who are often forced to drive beyond allowable HOS rules or park in undesignated and, in many cases, unsafe locations. The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) is currently updating the 2015 Jason’s Law Truck Parking Survey Results and Comparative Analysis, and more than 25 states have completed or are currently undertaking truck parking studies. The challenges are well documented and concern with Truck Parking kept the issue at the No. 5 position once again in 2019. The remaining issues in the 2019 survey are: #6 driver retention; #7 ELD mandate; #8 CSA; #9 Transportation I frastructure/Congestion/Funding; #10 Economy. 2019 ATRI Top Industry Iss es ATRI’s Top Industry Issues report details the results of the responses from industry stakeholders including employee drivers and owner-operators, motor carrier executives and other trucking 0 100 200 300 400 500 600 700 Most Important Second Most Important Third Most Important continued on page 16