{"id":10848,"date":"2021-09-02T18:22:02","date_gmt":"2021-09-02T18:22:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/?p=10848"},"modified":"2021-09-07T18:25:05","modified_gmt":"2021-09-07T18:25:05","slug":"u-s-study-examines-driver-employment-choices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/u-s-study-examines-driver-employment-choices\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. study examines driver employment choices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The American Transportation Research Institute (ATRI) has launched a study to better understand the motivating factors for being an owner-operator, independent contractor, or company driver.<\/p>\n<p>Drivers are asked to provide input through an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.research.net\/r\/ATRI-OO-IC-Survey\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">online data collection<\/a> form that measures what job-related factors contributed to becoming an owner-operator, independent contractor, or company driver and whether those expectations have been met.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis ATRI data collection initiative will be critical to understanding why drivers choose the type of employment they do,\u201d said Tom Weakley, OOIDA Foundation Director of Operations and a member of ATRI\u2019s Research Advisory Committee.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe motivations behind these choices and their level of satisfaction are important for understanding what types of employment opportunities drivers are looking for and why.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The research was identified by ATRI\u2019s Research Advisory Committee as a top research priority in 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The American Transportation Research Institute (ATRI) has launched a study to better understand the motivating factors for being an owner-operator, independent contractor, or company driver. Drivers are asked to provide input through an online data collection form that measures what job-related factors contributed to becoming an owner-operator, independent contractor, or company driver and whether those [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":10849,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-driving-for-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10848\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}