Rebecca Brewster

The American Transportation Research Institute (ATRI) launched a driver survey to better understand the impacts of state laws legalizing marijuana on the trucking industry and its workforce. ATRI first deployed this survey in-person at the Mid-America Trucking Show in Louisville, KY last week where...

A recent study conducted at state Universities of Tennessee, Arkansas and Iowa showed that U.S. recreational cannabis legalization reduced the number of heavy truck accidents by 11% in the eight states studied. The researchers looked at a state-level panel of...

It seems the growing popularity of cannabis in the U.S. represents a complex issue for the trucking industry. With trucking being federally regulated, cannabis remains prohibited under federal workplace drug testing programs for the over 3.5 million drivers who haul our shipments back and forth...