March 4, 2014
While some trucking companies have added short-haul rail intermodal dray services to their mix of options, some shippers are looking to cut down the amount they spend on drayage by building distribution centers right alongside rail facilities.
Tags: Intermodal, Shippers, Railroads
Author: Deborah Lockridge | Posted @ Tuesday, March 4, 2014 12:00 AM | » Comments(0)
February 28, 2014
At our company, it’s annual review time. Part of the process involves setting goals for the coming year, which are supposed to be “attainable with a stretch” – challenging, but reachable.
Tags: DOT, FMCSA, ATA, HOS
Author: Deborah Lockridge | Posted @ Friday, February 28, 2014 12:00 AM | » Comments(1)
February 20, 2014
Corporate anniversaries are often marked with special parties for employees, customers and communities. But Love's celebrated its 50th anniversary on Valentine's day with hundreds of employees volunteering in the community.
Tags: Love's Travel Stops, Truckstops, Image, Community Outreach, Charity
Author: Deborah Lockridge | Posted @ Thursday, February 20, 2014 12:00 AM | » Comments(0)
February 11, 2014
The under-representation of women in the trucking industry is a special interest of Editor in Chief Deborah Lockridge, whether it's behind the wheel or in the board room. Her "All That's Trucking" blog post highlights three companies who are actively recruiting women drivers.
Tags: Drivers, Recruiting, Women in Trucking, MATS 2014
Author: Deborah Lockridge | Posted @ Tuesday, February 11, 2014 12:00 AM | » Comments(4)
February 5, 2014
Twitter and Facebook are a valuable way of sharing information that becomes especially apparent in the hazardous winter weather we've been facing, says Deborah Lockridge in her "All That's Trucking" blog.
Tags: Twitter, Winter
Author: Deborah Lockridge | Posted @ Wednesday, February 5, 2014 12:00 AM | » Comments(0)
February 3, 2014
Can a man in a rusted old 1949 Hudson help bring attention to the nation's crumbling infrastructure and help grow interest in funding improvements? Editor in Chief Deborah Lockridge introduces you to Dan McNichol and his Dire States project in her "All That's Trucking" blog.
Tags: infrastructure, Highways, Infrastructure Funding
Author: Deborah Lockridge | Posted @ Monday, February 3, 2014 12:00 AM | » Comments(3)
January 15, 2014
Trucking today runs on information as much as it does diesel fuel. The days of sending a truck out and not knowing where it was unless the driver found a pay phone and called in to tell you are long behind us. Today we can not only know where that truck is, we can know if the driver’s speeding, if the trailer’s at the right temperature, even if a tire is low on air.
Tags: telematics, technology, Hotline, Information Technology, HDT
Author: Deborah Lockridge | Posted @ Wednesday, January 15, 2014 12:00 AM | » Comments(0)
December 31, 2013
A new image campaign was announced at ATA’s annual Management Conference and Exhibition. Are you yawning? Another one, you say? What’s so special about this one? Read on.
Tags: ATA, OOIDA, Teamsters
Author: Deborah Lockridge | Posted @ Tuesday, December 31, 2013 12:00 AM | » Comments(0)
December 16, 2013
How does Santa do what he does? It's a source of speculation among kids of all ages every Christmas season. What if Santa used an intelligent location platform to plan his route around the world?
Tags: Information Technology
Author: Deborah Lockridge | Posted @ Monday, December 16, 2013 12:00 AM | » Comments(0)
December 13, 2013
Volvo Trucks has had good success with its series of viral videos illustrating the precision steering on its European trucks, but it hit the ball out of the park with its most recent effort, "The Epic Split," which became the most viewed automotive commercial on YouTube ever.
Tags: Volvo, In the Media, Global
Author: Deborah Lockridge | Posted @ Friday, December 13, 2013 12:00 AM | » Comments(1)
November 27, 2013
Phil Byrd, the new chairman of the American Trucking Associations, may offer a little different perspective as an executive with a relatively small company, according to a report in his local paper.
Tags: ATA, Leadership, South Carolina
Author: Deborah Lockridge | Posted @ Wednesday, November 27, 2013 12:00 AM | » Comments(1)
November 25, 2013
"Lana R. Batts and trucking are joined at the axle." So reads the opening sentence of a profile of Batts in DC Velocity, a magazine for distribution center managers and executives, where she talks about trucking and her latest endeavor, driver screening.
Tags: Drivers, ATA, In the Media, TCA, Women in Trucking, EEOC
Author: Deborah Lockridge | Posted @ Monday, November 25, 2013 12:00 AM | » Comments(0)
Senior Editor Tom Berg offers this guest commentary in remembrance of the 50th anniversary of the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
November 21, 2013
What were you doing 50 years ago, when you heard that JFK had been assassinated? If you’re age 55 or older, you probably remember that moment clearly, sociologists say. Senior Editor Tom Berg, who’s now 70, recalls how news of the event directly affected his part-time truck-driving job.
Tags: History
Author: Tom Berg | Posted @ Thursday, November 21, 2013 12:00 AM | » Comments(2)
A guest post from HDT Senior Editor Tom Berg
November 19, 2013
The “Hiring Military Veterans” feature in the current issue of Heavy Duty Trucking was an easy assignment for me to take on, because I was in the Army from 1965 to ’67 and afterwards went to work “in the real world” – anywhere outside the service. Jobs were plentiful for a while, so no complaints from me. And I appreciate the service and experience of millions of other vets, then and now.
Tags: Ryder System, Veterans, XL Hybrids
Author: Tom Berg | Posted @ Tuesday, November 19, 2013 12:00 AM | » Comments(0)
November 8, 2013
The right parts and service decisions can help you meet on-time delivery goals with customers, improve your cost per mile, reduce downtime, improve utilization, better your CSA scores, even help retain drivers and cut turnover.
Tags: Parts & Service, Aftermarket, Maintenance
Author: Deborah Lockridge | Posted @ Friday, November 8, 2013 12:00 AM | » Comments(0)
November 5, 2013
Editor in Chief Deborah Lockridge recently caught up with a former HDT Truck Fleet Innovator during a luncheon at the American Trucking Associations' recent Management Conference and Exhibition. Find out what was on his mind in her "All That's Trucking" blog.
Tags: ATA, HDT Truck Fleet Innovators
Author: Deborah Lockridge | Posted @ Tuesday, November 5, 2013 12:00 AM | » Comments(0)
Guest post from Evan Lockridge, Senior Contributing Editor
October 24, 2013
Guest writer Evan Lockridge wonders if a new image campaign could accomplish not only more than previous campaigns, but also a more united trucking front, in this On the Road blog post.
Tags: Drivers, ATA, Image, ATA2013
Author: Evan Lockridge | Posted @ Thursday, October 24, 2013 12:00 AM | » Comments(3)
October 23, 2013
All That's Trucking Blog: Could we see a re-emergence of Class 8 cabovers in the U.S. and Canada? A couple of Canadian fleets appear to be interested in them for improved freight efficiency, but an exec from the one company that's still making them doesn't think drivers would stand for it.
Tags: Canada, Class 8, Fuel Economy, Cabovers
Author: Deborah Lockridge | Posted @ Wednesday, October 23, 2013 12:00 AM | » Comments(11)
October 14, 2013
A race truck built from an old R Model Mack by students from Lincoln Educational Services' South Plainfield, N.J., campus took first place in its class at the 2013 Diesel Nationals in Englishtown, N.J., last month.
Tags: Training, New Jersey, Technicians
Author: Deborah Lockridge | Posted @ Monday, October 14, 2013 12:00 AM | » Comments(1)
October 11, 2013
More than 600 fleet managers and fleet stakeholders took part at last week's Green Fleet Conference & Expo, held Oct. 1-2 at the Phoenix Convention Center. The exhibition hall had nearly 70 exhibitors, and while there were plenty of interesting things to see, Editor in Chief Deborah Lockridge picks out three of the most intriguing to write about for her "All That's Trucking" blog.
Tags: Natural Gas, Green Fleet Conference, EVs, Alternative Fuels, Events
Author: Deborah Lockridge | Posted @ Friday, October 11, 2013 12:00 AM | » Comments(0)
October 8, 2013
In Europe, they're partway through the seventh Blue Corridor Natural Gas Vehicle Rally, where natural-gas-powered vehicles are driving from St. Petersburg, Russia, around the Baltic Sea with stops along the way in Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia to demonstrate the benefits of using natural gas in transportation.
Tags: Natural Gas, Alternative Fuels, Global
Author: Deborah Lockridge | Posted @ Tuesday, October 8, 2013 12:00 AM | » Comments(0)
October 7, 2013
Everyone's familiar with the Goodyear blimp. But new, high-tech blimps are on the way, and Goodyear will be retiring its Ohio-based Spirit of Goodyear blimp, reports Deborah Lockridge in her All That's Trucking blog.
Tags: Goodyear, Tires
Author: Deborah Lockridge | Posted @ Monday, October 7, 2013 12:00 AM | » Comments(0)
October 4, 2013
The low-hanging fruit when it comes to fuel economy has all been picked. Now truck and engine makers are examining every part and component of the truck in exacting detail to figure out where they can cut the smallest amount of drag or the small parasitic loss of power that drag down fuel economy. Deborah Lockridge offers two examples in the "All That's Trucking" blog.
Tags: MPG, Freightliner, Daimler Trucks North America
Author: Deborah Lockridge | Posted @ Friday, October 4, 2013 12:00 AM | » Comments(0)
October 1, 2013
Senior Contributing Editor Evan Lockridge must have been watching way too much TV Monday as we approached a government shutdown, because he decided the impasse needed its own song -- sung to the music of the 1975 hit "Movin' On," because Congress is certainly NOT movin' on. Read more, if you dare, in the "All That's Trucking" blog.
Tags: Government
Author: Deborah Lockridge | Posted @ Tuesday, October 1, 2013 12:00 AM | » Comments(2)
September 30, 2013
With the government shutdown on one coast, the stranglehold of emissions regulations on the other, and a look at trucking efforts to thwart drug smugglers, trucking's been in the general media this past week. Read more in the "All That's Trucking" blog.
Tags: California, Economy, Regulations
Author: Deborah Lockridge | Posted @ Monday, September 30, 2013 12:00 AM | » Comments(0)