On Monday Inrix issued auto and truck travel data for the week ended April 3.  Inrix’s gets location reporting on 100 million trips covering 1 billion miles a day.  That’s about 10% of all US car trips.   The highlights.

• Nationwide travel for March 28-April 3 declined by 47% versus a typical pre-covid control week in February as states have put shelter in place restrictions in effect.
• The rate of decline has slowed over the past two weeks.
• The number of trips increase dslightly during the past week but the trips were of shorter duration.
• The states which have had the largest traffic reduction from the pre-covid control week are New Jersey (down 63%), Hawaii (down 62%), Michigan (down 57%) and New York (down 56%).
• The states with the lowest traffic reduction from the pre-covid control week are Wyoming (down 27%) and Arkansas (down 33%).
• Nationwide trucking is only down 6% versus the pre-covid control week.

Insider’s take:  Lots of cars and almost all commercial trucks are still on the road.  You need to communicate this to your clients when they call to say they want to cancel because no one is seeing their billboards.

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