With a volatile market impacted by COVID-19, growth in last-mile delivery, and changing needs for alternative-fuel trucks, the truck tire industry is looking forward to a positive future.
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Most major freight indexes continued to advance last month, but the economy may not be as healthy as we would hope.
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused the absence of fleet drivers when exposed to SARS-CoV-2 and quarantined. When fleet vehicles are idle during driver absence, proper maintenance ensures their performance when they are active again.
If you’re still using pencils, paper, and binders to track your tire management, you’ve already fallen behind.
Last-mile operations place special demands on the tires used on light- and medium-duty delivery vehicles.
Whether you think they are a necessary evil or run a brokerage business yourself, there’s little doubt that freight brokers and third-party logistics providers are an integral part of the transportation and logistics industry.
Fleet adoption of medium- and heavy-duty electric vehicles means more than just acquiring the trucks. It also means having places to charge those trucks — and it’s not as simple as plugging a Nissan Leaf into a port in your garage or a parking space at Whole Foods.
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The novel coronavirus and its spread throughout the globe have shined a bright light on the importance of a strong and healthy immune system, as well as on the crucial role truck drivers play in our logistics system.
Trucking-related decisions often revolve around trucks, loads and drivers, but some fleets believe the strength of an invisible thread – in the form of telematics data – will decide which businesses grow and scale.
Interested in electric trucks? You might want to research the related charging infrastructure long before they roll off an assembly line.
In a session packed with information for HR professionals, Katharine Weber, a principal with law firm Jackson Lewis, offered a breakdown of how to plan and brace for COVID-19's continuing effect on the trucking industry’s human resources departments.
These are hard times. To be precise, it’s a “hard market” when it comes to sourcing insurance coverage in the trucking industry.
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It has been fun and a learning experience for me. It is the best job I have ever had.” That’s what Tim Kraus told me in an interview about his upcoming February 2021 retirement as president and COO of the Heavy Duty Manufacturers Association.
How fuel-cell-equipped trucks could put to work otherwise unexploited clean energy.
While batteries and hydrogen fuel cells get headlines, renewable natural gas is quietly slashing carbon emissions for its users.
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