HDT Announces Top 20 Products for 2019
Heavy Duty Trucking magazine announced its 2019 Top 20 Products, highlighting the most innovative, significant, and useful new product announcements from last year.

The 2019 Top 20 Products award highlights the most innovative, significant, and useful new product announcements from last year.
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Heavy Duty Trucking magazine has announced its 2019 Top 20 Products, highlighting the most innovative, significant, and useful new product announcements from last year.
The winners are published in the February issue. Awards will be presented during individual ceremonies at the American Trucking Associations' Technology & Maintenance Council annual meeting at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta March 18-21.
Each year, HDT editors spend a lot of time going to press conferences and combing through news releases on the latest new products for trucking. At the end of the year, they embark on a process to identify the very best of the past year’s introductions for the Top 20 Products.
Editors sifted through all of the new product announcements that appeared in the magazine or on the Truckinginfo.com website over the course of 2018 to winnow down the list. Products are chosen based on the level of innovation, ability to address significant industry issues, and potential benefit to the bottom line.
HDT editors then consulted with the HDT Editorial Advisory Board, made up of executives and managers representing fleets of a variety of sizes and types, to arrive at the final 20.
Entire vehicles are not included, and products must be commercially available or scheduled to become commercially available this year.
The resulting Top 20 products are listed in alphabetical order by company name:
Bendix Intellipark
Carrier Transicold Vector 8611MT
CIMC Intermodal Equipment Revere premium-spec intermodal chassis
Continental ContiPressureCheck Solo
Cummins Filtration FleetguardFit
Doran YardCheck 360 Wireless Gate Reader TPMS
EKA Solutions Omni-TMS
ENow Electric, solar-powered refrigerator unit
Hendrickson Brake wear indicator tool
ID Systems LV Series
Lanehub Backhaul Assist
Michelin Energy Guard
Peterson PetersonPulse
Phillips Industries Qwik-Check
Rotary R5000HD Alignment Machine
Roush Cleaner Propane Autogas Engine
SAF Holland Tire Pilot Plus
Stemco ABS TrailerTail Deployment
Trimble PeopleNet Display.5
Xstream Trucking TruckWings
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