When it comes to managing electronic logging devices in the back office, “Obviously, the big thing is to monitor for violations,” according to Annette Sandberg, CEO of TransSafe Consulting and a former administrator of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration.
Motivated by people and change, Miller has been involved in fleet for almost four decades in a variety of roles.
"There are quite a few bad ELD vendors out there... They probably should have never been certified, but remember, this is a self-certification process." Find out more about the challenges with ELD devices in this report.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The new ratings program would extend the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety's work toward developing objective tools for evaluating adaptive cruise control and lane-keeping systems.
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.
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.
Once you know what data points are the most important to analytics, the next step is leveraging and utilizing the data to act.
An unquenchable appetite for improved safety and sustainability is driving real change for the fleet management team at Southern California’s Golden State Foods.
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.
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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