Deborah Lockridge

Editor and Associate Publisher

Since 1990, Deborah Lockridge has covered all aspects of the trucking industry for leading industry publications. She has been with Heavy Duty Trucking since 1998 and is currently the chief editor and associate publisher.

Lockridge has written about nearly every topic associated with the trucking industry, including maintenance stories ranging from lubes to technician training; hot issues such as counterfeit parts and the driver shortage; regulatory and legislative news; safety and compliance; and interviews with drivers, truck dealers, technicians, owner-operators and fleet executives.

Her monthly editorial in HDT, addressing timely and often controversial issues affecting trucking, is widely read and garnered her a Jesse H. Neal award from the Software & Information Industry Association (formerly Connectiv), as well as being a finalist several times for the award.

Her numerous awards for writing in the trucking field include 30 Jesse H. Neal honors, as well as twice being part of a team winning the association’s prestigious Grand Neal award. She also has received honors for her trucking writing from the American Society of Business Publication Editors and the National Federation of Press Women, and was part of staff recognized for editorial excellence by Folio: magazine.

A graduate of the prestigious University of Missouri School of Journalism, she is a member of the American Trucking Associations' Technology & Maintenance Council and the American Society of Business Publication Editors. She can be reached at (205) 989-6467 or dlockridge@truckinginfo.com.

Truck Makers Talk About Green Truck Initiatives

PHOENIX -- The affordability, abundance and relatively fast return on investment for natural gas trucks has pushed interest in electric hybrids for medium- and heavy-duty trucks and other alt-fuel alternatives to the back burner, but that doesn't mean truck makers have given up on hybrid drives and researching a variety of other technologies for future "green" trucks.

Green Fleet Conference: Gridlock, Obama, and What it Means for Green Fleets

PHOENIX -- What should you expect in President Obama's second term? A single word: gridlock. The current government shutdown is just one more symptom of a Congress that hasn't passed a budget since 2007. Yet that might not affect green fleets' investments in clean-burning and alternative fueled vehicles as much as you might think.

When the Wheels' Ain't Rollin' in DC (With Apologies to Merle Haggard)

Senior Contributing Editor Evan Lockridge must have been watching way too much TV Monday as we approached a government shutdown, because he decided the impasse needed its own song -- sung to the music of the 1975 hit "Movin' On," because Congress is certainly NOT movin' on. Read more, if you dare, in the "All That's Trucking" blog.