Rhode Warrior Issue 2, 2022 featuring Trucking U + Membership Directory

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Volvo Trucks North America Wilco Development LLC Yard Works
Chris Gossler Bill Wilbur Joe Fox
25 Firethorn Lane 300 Jefferson Blvd. Suite 211 1309 Warwick Avenue
Cranston, RI 02920 Warwick, RI 02888 Warwick, RI 02888
(336) 210-4514 - Cell 401-463-6600 401-463-9133
[email protected] [email protected] [email protected]

W William Anthony Excavating, Inc. Yellow Corporation
W.F. Jackson Trans LLC Tony Raposo Mike Kelley
Willie Floyd Jackson 3666 Quaker Lane 10990 Roe Avenue
2560 Pawtucket Avenue North Kingstown, RI 02852 Overland Park, KS 66211
East Providence, RI 02914 401-294-2320 913-696-6121
401-327-3250 [email protected] [email protected]
[email protected] WM Lawton & Son Moving & Storage YMCA of Pawtucket, Inc.
Member:Own/Op William Lawton Charles Clifford
Wampum Transport, Inc. 110 Crescent Avenue 8 Summer Street, Lower Level
Robert Smith Cranston, RI 02910 Pawtucket, RI 02860
PO Box 268 401-861-6699 401-727-7515
North Kingstown, RI 02852 [email protected] [email protected]
401-295-5587 Office Women in Trucking
[email protected] Ellen Voie Z
Warm Heart Trucking LLC PO Box 400 ZCT dba Zeferino Costa
Crisolita Figueiredo Plover, WI 54467 Zeferino Costa
59 Madison Street 888-464-0400 20 Josephine Avenue
Pawtucket, RI 02861 [email protected] Rumford, RI 02916
401-332-0157 Wood & Wire Fence Co Inc 401-497-9227
[email protected] Sue Chaput [email protected]
Warwick Tree Service, Inc. 125 Higginson Avenue Zelano Insurance
Denise Oneppo Lincoln, RI 02865 Tony Zelano
405 Arnold Rd. 401-727-0806 37 Pleasant View Avenue
Coventry, RI 02816 [email protected] Greenville, RI 02828
401-826-8733 Wood's Heating Services 401-949-1550
[email protected] Wendy Wood [email protected]
Waste Tech Disposal Service 88 Boyd Avenue Ziggy's Sons Construction
Dale Sousa East Providence, RI 02914 John Pawluch
567 Winthrop Street 401-434-1487 PO Box 7695
Rehoboth, Ma. 02769 [email protected] Cumberland, RI 02864
508-252-9800 401-658-2828
[email protected] X [email protected]
Wells Fargo Equipment Finance XPO Logistics
Jim Legris Hesse Wegner
6028 Valley Forge Drive 106 New Lombard Road
Coopersburg, PA 18036 Chicopee, MA 01020
215-249-1773 413-594-6162
[email protected] [email protected]
Wesco Oil Inc Xpress Sweeping LLC
Chad Sirois Henry Di Pietro
PO Box 17010 6 Crudale Drive
Esmond, RI 02917 West Warwick, RI 02893
401-231-3681 401-825-6961
[email protected] [email protected]
Westwood Cartage, Inc.
Mark Greene Y
125 Carlsbad Street Y & M Trucking LLC
Cranston, RI 02920 Marleni Figueroa
401-943-0700 146 Wood Street, Apt 1
[email protected] Providence, RI 02909
WHMS Inc 401-323-9615
Edward Faubert [email protected]
337 Main Street, Unit 8 Member:Own/Op
Ashaway, RI 02804 Yankee Tree Service Inc.
401-596-7674 Robert Choiniere
[email protected] 1134 Great Road
Lincoln, RI 02865
401-439-6028
[email protected]

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TRUCKING DRIVES THE ECONOMY

CAREERS COMPETITIVE WAGES

17,520 Total trucking industry wages
paid in Rhode Island in 2020
Trucking industry jobs in Rhode Island exceeded $900 million, with
1 in 22 jobs in the state an average annual trucking
industry salary of $56,591.
(2020)
Heavy and tractor-trailer truck
SMALL BUSINESS EMPHASIS drivers held 3,590 jobs with an
average annual salary of
3,840 $48,910.

Trucking companies located in (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2020)
Rhode Island Rhode Island. Primarily small, locally
TRUCKING FAST FACTS owned businesses, these companies TRANSPORTING THE ESSENTIALS

Rhode Island are served by a wide range of
TRUCKING FAST FACTSsupporting businesses.

(2021)

Percent of manufactured 98.4%
tonnage transported by
trucks in Rhode Island.
38,330 tons per day

(2017)

87.7% of Rhode Island
communities depend exclusively

on trucks to move their goods.

SAFETY MATTERS CONTINUALLY IMPROVING

SAFETY FIRST 2019 U.S. fatal crash rate per 100
Rhode Island Trucking Association million Vehicle Miles Traveled (VMT):
members put safety first through:
Rhode Island: 0.82 | USA: 1.49
Improved driver training
Between 1975 and 67.5%
Investment in advanced safety 2019, the U.S. large
technologies truck fatal crash rate

Active participation in industry has dropped
safety initiatives at the local, state
and national levels

ritrucking.org COMMITMENT TO SHARING THE ROAD ritrucking.org
@RITrucking @RITrucking
The Share the Road program sends a
Updated March 2022 with most team of professional truck drivers to Updated March 2022 with most
recent data available communities around the country to recent data available
teach car drivers about truck blind spots,
|52 RHODE WARRIOR ISSUE 2 2022 stopping distances and how to merge RITRUCKING.ORG
safely around large trucks, all designed to
reduce the number of car-truck crashes.

TRUCKING PAYS THE FREIGHT

THE INDUSTRY INDIVIDUAL COMPANIES Rhode Island
The trucking industry in Rhode Island As of January 2022, a typical five-axle TRUCKING FAST FACTS
tractor-semitrailer combination paid:
paid approximately
$6,496 state highway user
$62 million fees and taxes
in federal and state roadway taxes
(2020) $8,906 federal highway
use fees and taxes
The industry paid 29% of all taxes
owed by Rhode Island motorists … These taxes were over and above the
typical taxes paid by businesses in
… despite trucks representing only 8% Rhode Island.
of vehicle miles traveled in the state.
ROADWAY USE
Miles of public
6,025 roads in Rhode
Island (2020)
Miles driven
on public roads:

All Motorists: 6.9 billion

Trucks: 528 million

DELIVERING A CLEANER TOMORROW

EMISSIONS FUEL CONSUMPTION
49% of U.S. commercial trucks The trucking industry continues to
are now powered by the newest- improve energy and environmental
generation, near-zero emissions efficiency even while increasing the
diesel technology. number of miles driven. In 2020:

Medium- and heavy-duty trucks Combination trucks accounted
contribute just 24.5% of all transpor- for just 18% of the total
tation-related greenhouse gas (GHG) highway transportation fuel
emissions in the U.S. and represent consumed.
only 7% of total U.S. GHG emissions. Combination trucks consumed
nearly 113 billion fewer gallons
PARTNERSHIPS of fuel than passenger vehicles
Through the in the U.S.
U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency’s (EPA) SmartWay ritrucking.org
Transport Partnership, the trucking @RITrucking
industry is working with government and
businesses to quantify greenhouse gas Updated March 2022 with most
emissions and take steps to reduce them. recent data available

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CELEBRATING 20 YEARS OF ATRITHE NATION’S TOP TRUCK

This year ATRI celebrates 20 years of leadership in critical data and analysis to improve the

BOTTLENECKS 2021trucking industry’s safety and productivity. From the truck stop to the executive suite, to the
ANALYSsItSate house and Capitol Hill, ATRI’s reputation for providing objective industry analyses means

data-driven decision making on the industry’s biggest issues.ince 2002, the American Transportation Research Institute

S(ATRI) has collected and processed truck GPS data in support
truck GPS dataset, ATRI found average truck speeds at some of the
worst truck bottlenecks improve by 100% or more as car drivers
of numerous U.S. DOT freight mobility initiatives. Using truck GPS sheltered in place and trucks kept moving to deliver essential goods.
data from over 1 million freight trucks, ATRI develops and monitors In a separate analysis in April 2020, ATRI found state-level truck
a series of key performance measures on the nation’s freight activity increased in early February as panic-buying drove consumer
transportation system. Among many GPS analyses, ATRI converts demand, followed by a decrease in truck activity as more businesses
its truck GPS dataset into an ongoing truck bottleneck analysis that were closed. However, by April and into May, ATRI’s Truck Activity
is used to quantify the impact of traffic congestion on truck-borne Index began to improve across the states analyzed, signaling a
freight at over 300 specific locations. While other datasets may return to pre-pandemic freight demand.
identify congested corridors, no dataset available today specifically
identifies granular chokepoints in the nation’s truck freight An additional impact on traffic congestion in 2020 was the number IMPROVING SAFETY
transportation system. of roadway construction projects that were able to commence and/ AND LOWERING RISK
or advance at a faster pace due to fewer vehicles on the road during
ATRI’s annual Top Truck Bottleneck Analysis uses a full year of the pandemic. Once traffic levels increased in the second half of
truck GPS data to calculate the top chokepoints. However, 2020 2020, those construction projects became even more congested.
was by all definitions a different year with pandemic-related impacts As such, this year’s Top Truck Bottleneck list reflects a rise in
intersecting with traffic patterns. In a March 2020 analysis using its ranking in a number of locations impacted by roadway construction.

2021 TOP TRUCK BOTTLENECKS • BY THE NUMBERS On topics as wide-ranging as predicting future crash
involvement to safety technology cost-benefit analyses to

AVERAGE PEAK 33.9%up year-over-year TOP 100 BOTTLENECKS 25% 29NUMBER OF STATES obstructive sleep apnea, ATRI’s research provides a blueprint
WITH AVERAGE TRUCK for managing risk and improving roadway safety.
43.0HOUR TRUCK WITH AT LEAST ONE
mphSPEED: SPEEDS <45 MPH: TOP 100 BOTTLENECK:

WA

9# Rye, NY OPERATIONAL DATA
1-95 at I-287 YOU CAN COUNT ON

NY Whether you’re looking to route your drivers around congestion or
CT benchmark your costs against your peers in the industry, ATRI’s
analyses combine real-world data with a deep understanding of
6# Chicago, IL PA industry operations.
I-290 at I-90/I-94
LEADING WITH DATA,
1# Fort Lee, NJ NOT EMOTION
1-95 at SR 4
ATRI’s research uses data and analyses to dissect the true
CA 2# Cincinnati, OH impacts of policies and regulations across a range of critical
I-71 at I-75 topics including Hours-of-Service, autonomous vehicles, CSA,
8# St. Louis, MO tolling, and nuclear verdicts.
I-64/I-55 at I-44

10# San Bernardino, CA 7 TN
I-10 at I-15 # Chattanooga, TN 3# Atlanta, GA
I-75 at I-24 I-285 at I-85 (North)

GA

STATES WITH THE 4# Atlanta, GA
HIGHEST NUMBER OF I-20 at I-285 (West)
TOP 100 BOTTLENECKS: TX

Texas.................. 12 Georgia ................ 7 5# Houston, TX
California ............. 8 Pennsylvania....... 7 I-45 at I-69/US 59
Washington ......... 8 New York .............. 6
Connecticut......... 7 Tennessee ........... 6

For more information on ATRI’s Top Truck Bottleneck analysis, including a detailed description of the methodology, visit www.TruckingResearch.org.

WHERE THE RUBBER
MEETS THE ROAD

ATRI has a long history of research focused on the issues and
concerns of professional truck drivers. From involvement in over
40 national, state, and regional truck parking studies to quantifying
the impacts of detention, ATRI’s analyses provide a key input to
advancing the safety and productivity of the industry’s workforce.

We rely on YOU to make our research successful. Help secure ATRI’s future for
the next 20 years with a charitable contribution from you or your organization!

Visit us today online at TruckingResearch.org
to learn more about our research and commit to
supporting ATRI through a charitable contribution.

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