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Equipmentby Jack RobertsAugust 29, 2024

The Promise of Powered Trailers

New powered trailers can make diesel-powered tractor trailers cleaner and more efficient than ever before, as well as help with adoption of zero-emission trucks.

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Fleet Managementby Jack Roberts and Deborah LockridgeAugust 28, 2024

What Can Artificial Intelligence Do For Trucking Fleets?

How can AI help your fleet be more efficient? Let HDT count the ways.

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Fleet Managementby Avery ViseAugust 27, 2024

When Consumer Spending on Goods Produces No Freight

Real consumer spending on goods remains at a near-record level. Why isn't that filling up truck trailers?

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Driversby Deborah LockridgeAugust 23, 2024

Q&A: NTI's Leah Shaver on What's Keeping Women Out of Trucking

What can trucking companies do to attract and support more women? The National Transportation Institute’s Leah Shaver has some ideas following a recent survey, including one in particular she's passionate about.

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Fuel Smartsby Deborah LockridgeAugust 22, 2024

15 Ways HDT’s Top Green Fleets Pursue Sustainability

Electric trucks and alternative fuels may get the headlines, but when it comes to trucking fleets reducing emissions and being more sustainable, there are many strategies fleets can adopt, as these takeaways from HDT's Top Green Fleets illustrate.

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Driversby Mark Murrell, President, CarriersEdgeAugust 21, 2024

How to Prevent Administrative Mistakes from Impacting Drivers

In part two of this series, Mark Murrell, CarriersEdge president, looks at why taking care of driver-side issues makes them happier and helps your business in the long run.

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Fleet ManagementCover Storyby Deborah LockridgeAugust 19, 2024

HDT's Top Green Fleets Lead the Trucking Industry in Sustainability

From pushing the aerodynamic envelope to renewable fuels to battery-electric heavy-duty trucking, the 2024 HDT Top Green Fleets are demonstrating how sustainability can lead to trucking success.

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Fleet Managementby Deborah LockridgeAugust 16, 2024

How Trucking Fleets Are Navigating the Post-Pandemic Roller Coaster

Trucking companies are dealing with a landscape that’s one of the most challenging in recent memory. But there is also opportunity, says Brian Holland, president and CEO of Fleet Advantage. How can fleets be prepared for the ups and downs of the cycle?

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Fleet Managementby Mark Murrell, President, CarriersEdgeAugust 15, 2024

Unhappy Drivers? Are Administrative Mistakes to Blame?

Truck drivers have enough problems to deal with. Dumping administrative issues on their shoulders too is a sure-fire way to make them miserable, argues CarriersEdge President Mark Murrell.

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Fleet Managementby Deborah LockridgeAugust 13, 2024

Risks and Roadblocks Facing AI in Trucking

“Success in creating effective AI could be the biggest event in the history of our civilization — or the worst. We just don’t know.”

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