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Driversby Deborah LockridgeAugust 27, 2018

Longtime Truck Driver Reflects on Being a Woman on the Road

When Stephanie Klang’s then-husband taught her to drive a truck in 1980, allowing her to escape the poverty she grew up in, she never expected that one day her likeness would be one of four women drivers featured on a special CFI tractor.

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ELD Lessons Learned So Far, Part 1: Roadside

With active enforcement of the ELD mandate in effect across the country, it is critical that drivers understand what is expected of them in a roadside inspection.

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Fleet Managementby Deborah LockridgeAugust 20, 2018

Q&A: Fenn Church on ELDs, Infrastructure, and Trucking in Alabama

Mandatory ELDs may level the playing field, but it's still a battle to get some customers to understand the constraints that the hours of service rules play. That's just one challenge facing Fenn Church, president of Church Transportation, as he leads the Alabama Trucking Association this year.

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Driversby Jack RobertsAugust 16, 2018

Q&A: Finn Murphy, Truck Owner-Operator and Author of 'The Long Haul'

Finn Murphy, author of "The Long Haul, a Trucker's Tales of Life on the Road," looks back over three decades of driving and the future of trucking.

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Maintenanceby Todd Mouw, Roush CleanTechAugust 16, 2018

Top 3 Maintenance Tips for Propane Vehicles

Technicians don’t need to worry when they hear the word “propane.” Aside from a few differences, propane autogas vehicles are much like gasoline-fueled models when it comes to keeping them running.

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Equipmentby Jack RobertsAugust 8, 2018

Quick Spin: Peterbilt Model 567

Quiet, cool and capable: All good things to have in a truck you’re driving in some of the most inhospitable country in North America, writes Senior Editor Jack Roberts about putting the Peterbilt Model 567 vocational truck through its paces.

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Fleet Managementby Evan LockridgeAugust 8, 2018

Commentary: 12 Things I Learned in 20 Years with HDT

What has Evan Lockridge learned in 20 years with HDT? He shares a list in his last column for the magazine – some about trucking and the economy, some not.

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Fleet Managementby Deborah LockridgeAugust 7, 2018

Q&A: U.S. Xpress' Eric Fuller on Going Public, the Driver Shortage and More

Truckload giant U.S. Xpress recently went public again. HDT's Deborah Lockridge talks to President and CEO Eric Fuller about the IPO, its first quarterly financial report, the driver shortage and other challenges and opportunities facing the carrier and the industry.

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Aftermarketby Denise RondiniAugust 6, 2018

Commentary: Learn How the Best Fleets Manage Maintenance

In a recent survey, most fleets averaged a breakdown every 9,136 miles but the best-in-class fleets had breakdowns every 33,809 miles. So what are they doing different?

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Safety & Complianceby Rolf LockwoodAugust 3, 2018

Commentary: The Fatal Uber Crash Revisited

Armed with more information, executive contributing editor Rolf Lockwood revisits the fatal crash of an autonomous Uber vehicle in Arizona to determine who or what was really at fault.

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