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David Cullen

[Former] Business/Washington Contributing Editor

David Cullen has been covering trucking for top-tier media platforms continuously since 1981. He served as executive editor of Heavy Duty Trucking from 2015 to 2020. Prior to that was executive editor of a fleet-focused magazine, where he was on staff from 1989 to 2015. He launched his career in 1981 with DES (Diesel Equipment Superintendent), where he served as managing editor from 1985 to 1989.

Cullen is known for his coverage of legislative and regulatory issues affecting the trucking industry, as well as fleet business related topics.

Cullen is a recipient of several Jesse H. Neal Awards for Outstanding Journalism and numerous ASPBE AZBEE Awards for Excellence in business-to-business journalism, as well as ASPBE's Annual Stephen Barr Award for Individual Feature Writing.

Newsby David CullenOctober 29, 2019

Volvo Grows Regional Class 8 Truck Lineup

The OEM said its new VNR 660 is aimed at truck operations seeking to increase payload capacity while remaining within certain federal or state length and weight restrictions.

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Newsby David CullenOctober 29, 2019

Navistar Unwraps Electric Truck

The OEM revealed a prototype for a battery-electric drive version of its International MV medium-duty truck, dubbed the eMV, which is slated to come to market by early 2021.

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Newsby David CullenOctober 28, 2019

Great Dane Rolls Out Smart Trailer System

Great Dane calls FleetPulse “the first and only trailer telematics system developed by a trailer OEM."

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Newsby David CullenOctober 25, 2019

Daimler to Offer Carbon Neutral Trucks by 2039

Within just 20 years, the world's biggest truck maker wants to offer only CO2-neutral trucks in the U.S. and elsewhere.

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Photo Galleriesby David CullenOctober 18, 2019

Mexico's Mega Truck Show [Photos]

HDT Executive Editor David Cullen takes you inside Expo Transporte, Mexico’s biggest truck and bus show, held October 16-18, 2019, in Puebla, Mexico.

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Newsby David CullenOctober 10, 2019

Ray Martinez Stepping Down as FMCSA Chief

Ray Martinez, Administrator of the Federal Motor Carrier Administration, will be leaving his agency post by the end of this month to take on a different position within the Department of Transportation.

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Newsby David CullenOctober 9, 2019

Don’t Shortchange Training When Converting to ELDs

Lisa Gonnerman, vice president of safety and security for Transport America, detailed what the transition from AOBRDs to ELDs entailed for the Eagan, Minnesota-based carrier.

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Newsby David CullenOctober 7, 2019

ATA’s Spear Details How Fine Art of Policymaking Delivers for Trucking

Politics, or more exactly how to work political levers to attain favorable policy outcomes, was a running theme of the state of the industry address delivered on Oct. 7 by ATA’s Chris Spear.

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Newsby David CullenOctober 7, 2019

Volvo to Sell Electric Class 8 Truck in the U.S. by End of 2020

The battery-electric version of Volvo Trucks North America’s VNR Class 8 regional hauler— dubbed the EVNR-- is now slated “to go on sale at the end of 2020,” according to VTNA President Peter Voorhoeve.

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Newsby David CullenOctober 3, 2019

Industry Group Recommends How to Better Prevent Bridge Hits

Recommendations have been issued on how to help prevent vertical-clearance “bridge hits,” like the one by a truck that caused the Skagit River bridge collapse in Washington State back in 2013.

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