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.
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.
by HDT Staff
November 24, 2016
Thanksgiving postcard circa 1900 showing turkey and football player. Image via Wikimedia Commons
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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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