Today ATRI released the 2025 findings of its leading costs and performance benchmarking report, An Analysis of the Operational Costs of Trucking.
The industry’s average cost of operating a truck in 2024 was $2.260 per mile, a 0.4 percent decline compared with the previous year. However, when lower fuel costs are excluded, marginal costs rose 3.6 percent to $1.779 per mile – the highest costs ever recorded by ATRI for non-fuel operating costs.