Thanksgiving Holiday
HDT is closing its offices for the Thanksgiving Holiday weekend, please enjoy some of our best long-form features, photo galleries, and commentary from the past few months.
Thanksgiving postcard circa 1900 showing turkey and football player. Image via Wikimedia Commons
Thanksgiving postcard circa 1900 showing turkey and football player. Image via Wikimedia Commons
The Heavy Duty Trucking staff will be at home with their families on Thursday and Friday for the Thanksgiving Day holiday but we’ll be back covering the day’s trucking news on Monday.
However, many of our readers will still be working hard, so we have filled our newsletter with some of the most popular online articles.
Our editors not only put in hard work to publish our print magazine, but also produce great online content, all of which is written and edited to help improve your fleet business as well as provide various thoughts on every aspect of the industry.
Please enjoy some of our best features, photo galleries, and videos from the past few months. They cover a wide range of topics from future trucking technology, green and sustainable practices, and maintenance, to new vehicle reveals, infrastructure reform, and in-depth interviews with important industry people.
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Kodiak Lines Up Fleets for Driverless Trucking
An agreement for 75 trucks, a new Texas freight lane, and progress on safety validation move Kodiak closer to its planned driverless highway launch.
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ITS Logistics Settles Religious Harassment Case
The Nevada-based logistics firm agreed to pay more than $396,000 to settle a religious harassment charge involving an employee's Jewish identity.
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Your Trucks Are Busy. That Doesn’t Mean They’re Winning.
High utilization doesn’t always mean strong margins. Looking beyond the current load can help fleets make better dispatch decisions and get more value from each truck’s time.
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Why This Trucking Recovery Is Different
Freight demand remains sluggish, but rising costs and tougher enforcement have taken enough capacity out of the market to change the outlook for motor carriers.
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Platform Science Adds Dispatch and Safety Tools
Four additions to PS Fleet help fleets monitor loads, manage driver coaching, share truck locations and adjust video system settings.
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PrePass Intelligence Mines Fleet Bypass, Toll and Safety Data
PrePass Intelligence helps fleets measure bypass savings, flag potential toll overcharges, and spot suspicious transactions by combining data from separate systems.
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Motive Adds AI Agents for Fleet Operations
New tools automate follow-up on fleet data, from maintenance work orders to driver alerts, with two-way voice conversations planned for later this year.
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Can You Beat Our Trucking Trivia Challenge?
Test your truck knowledge with 19 trivia questions from Heavy Duty Trucking Exchange. Can you keep up with the fleet pros?
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BeyondTrucks Adds Rules Checks to Dispatch
New Compatibility Engine checks driver qualifications, equipment requirements and fleet policies before loads are dispatched.
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Diesel Prices Hijack Trucking’s Worry List
ATRI’s annual survey finds cautious optimism about freight, but diesel costs, litigation, and insurance continue to squeeze fleets. Drivers have different priorities on several issues.
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