The Colorful 100-Year History of Cummins
Cummins has turned 100 years old this year, a rarity in any industry, and a journey back through its ten decades reveals a colorful history.
Cummins has turned 100 years old this year, a rarity in any industry, and a journey back through its ten decades reveals a colorful history.
Not everyone’s cut out for the world of hauling flatbed, oversized, and extreme over-dimensional freight. But at Lone Star Transportation, it’s a challenging and satisfying career for a handful of women drivers – and the company is recruiting more.
Every winter impacts the economy in some way, but this season was especially tough and could have led to a slowdown in truck freight.
Truck age is an important factor in total cost of ownership/life cycle cost calculations. The longer you keep a truck, the more it costs in maintenance and repairs.
Truck manufacturers are moving to a business model that centers on maximized product uptime, or repairing equipment before it ever breaks down. Commentary by Aftermarket Contributing Editor Denise Rondini.
A larger, specialized flatbed trailer means more product hauled in fewer trips for the Minn-Dak Farmers’ Cooperative.
Ryder System's senior director of advanced vehicle technology and global fuel products, Chris Nordh, spoke with HDT about the prospect of commercial electric vehicles and future technologies for transportation.
Many fleets say 2018 was one of their best years ever, but smaller carriers (1-100 trucks), while growing, struggle with challenges such as drivers, high fuel and insurance costs, government regulations and fierce competition. HDT has an exclusive first look at a new survey by Bibby Financial Services.
As it gets closer to announcing the availability of commercial truck platooning, Peloton Technologies laid out the details of how its two-truck platooning system, PlatoonPro, works to ensure safety and security in a new report.
The heavy-duty segment is an important segment for General Motors. While designing the 2020 Silverado HD, GM made sure to take in fleet input and parlay that input into features that made it into the final product.
Dana hosted a test drive of trucks outfitted with its latest technology at TMC’s annual meeting in Atlanta.
Kenneth Calhoun, newest chairman of the Technology & Maintenance Council of the American Trucking Associations, has long been an advocate of embracing new technology. Now, he’s doing just that to bring more positive change to the trucking industry.
From Uber drivers to scooter users and pedestrians buried in their cell phones, fleet drivers navigating medium-duty trucks in the big city face an entirely different reality than their suburban or rural counterparts.
An array of new and updated solutions in 2019 will help fleet managers reduce risky driver behavior like never before.
Total cost of ownership for vocational truck fleets is trending upward, primarily due to higher fuel prices, increased maintenance costs due to higher labor rates and parts prices, and commodity-driven increases in tire prices.
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