Truck congestion has almost doubled compared to congestion for all vehicles since 2019, according to a new report.

The 2025 Urban Mobility Report (UMR) by the Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI) estimates that, on average, Americans lost the equivalent of eight full workdays to traffic – a 16-percent spike in national congestion costs over the last five years.

Truck congestion has spiked some 19 percent since 2019 as rising delivery volumes increase freight traffic while congestion for all vehicles has grown 10 percent during the same time.

All that lost time totals $269 billion annually. The 2025 UMR analyzes travel across almost 500 U.S. urban areas and congestion has been growing in areas of every size.

The overall volume of traffic has returned to pre-pandemic levels but travel patterns have shifted thanks to hybrid work and online shopping. Traffic patterns are no longer confined to traditional weekday rush hours, instead spreading across more hours. Transit agencies have experienced similar ridership shifts toward off-peak hours. Such shifts in traffic patterns can create more unpredictability and make travel harder to plan, researchers said.

Explore an interactive dashboard of the data here. The complete 105-page report is available here.