Guest voices is a blog with contributed articles from members of the trucking and transportation industry on a variety of current issues
An FCC proposal to prioritize connected TVs, toys and toilets over automotive safety will have deadly consequences, says the American Trucking Associations in this commentary.
If an automaker can make an electric truck like the one I’m laying out here, I’m all in.
There are three key reasons why the transition to synthetic oils is occurring. They are the proliferation of smaller displacement turbocharged engines, escalating CAFE fuel economy requirements, and government regulations to lower tailpipe emissions.
Technology is leading the pack, but repair costs, the evolution of 5G, and driver safety programs round out the top four factors impacting accident management in the future.
There won’t be any nationwide thaw in the 1991 ISTEA freeze on long combination vehicles anytime soon, not in my lifetime anyway, nor probably in my children’s lifetime, says Charlie Willmott in this week's guest voices blog. He would put money on it.
Remember compliance cars? California Air Resources Board (CARB) proposed Advanced Clean Truck rule feels like its 2012 rule dictating zero-emission passenger cars. Only this time, fleets are involved.
There is a simple rule: When doing two things at once and one could be fatal, pay attention to the one that could be fatal, writes truck driver Jeff Clark in this In this Guest Voices blog post about distracted driving.
Amazon placed an order for a cargo van that doesn’t exist yet; you can now call your Tesla across the parking lot, and gas stations are becoming the filling stations of (back to) the future. Just another week in this new world of transportation.
For the past several model years, order-to-delivery times for high-volume work trucks and vans have increased due to strong demand. Vocational trucks are vulnerable to OTD delays because fleet orders are usually concentrated among a handful of models.
If you knew there were thieves in your neighborhood and still left your bike on the front lawn, you wouldn’t call the inevitable robbery a break-in or home invasion, you'd call it stupidity. Our Guest Voices blog takes a look at cybersecurity.
