The longest detention time for truckers, by city

• Truckers lose $ 1.3 billion annually in warehouse wages.
• On average in 2018, truck drivers waited 2.5 hours per job at an expedition dock, according to data from FreightWaves SONAR.
• This highlights inefficiencies in the trucking industry, Dean Croke, head of badysis at FreightWaves.

As a long-haul truck driver in Australia, Dean Croke, Head of Analysis at FreightWaves, spent most Sundays waiting six to seven hours to race.

"You hear people complaining about the shortage of drivers," Croke told Business Insider, but they do not examine the trucking industry's major inefficiency: the hours per week that truck drivers spend wait for charges.

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One way to look at detention times is to badyze where truckers wait the longest. On average in 2018, truckers waited 2.5 hours per shift at the shipping docks, according to data from FreightWaves SONAR from its 135 markets. This average wait reached 5.5 hours in Fresno, California.

According to a survey conducted by the freight market, DAT Solutions, among the drivers of 257 trucking companies, only 3% of truckers reported receiving a retention allowance for at least 90% of their claims to shippers.

Here are the cities with the worst 10 detention times, according to FreightWaves: