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All That's Trucking

Editor in Chief Deborah Lockridge's take on anything and everything related to trucking,

Deborah Lockridge

Editor and Associate Publisher

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Guest Voices

Guest Voices features contributed posts from members of the trucking and transportation industry on ...

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On the Road

Straight talk on trucking from a driver turned award-winning journalist.

Jim Park

Former HDT Equipment Editor

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Truck Tech

Insights on ground-breaking technical developments and trends in an industry being transformed by te...

Jack Roberts

Executive Editor

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On the Road•by Jim Park•July 11, 2012

Truck Brakes Don't Fail by Themselves

Over the past week, two trucks crashed as a result of their inability to stop on hills. In both cases, the mainstream media reported that the trucks' brakes had failed. That illustrates what the mainstream media knows about truck brakes/

On the Road•by Jim Park•July 6, 2012

What happened to brotherhood?

It's not enough that drivers need to watch out for downright lousy car drivers, overly enthusiastic creeper-cops and dispatchers that don't know the meaning of 'tomorrow,' they also need to be on guard for the sins of their brothers and sisters.

Trailer Talk•by Tom Berg•July 3, 2012

Testimonials aren't new, but they're still convincing

ATDynamics in South San Francisco, Calif., is among the most active makers of trailer aerodynamic improvers, both in designing and selling its products and in promoting them via the media. Its website, www.atdynamics.com, now includes testimonials from happy customers, including a Canadian featured below.

All That's Trucking•by Deborah Lockridge•June 28, 2012

What's up with electric trucks?

It seems every time I turn around the past few weeks, I see something about how the demand for electric and hybrid vehicles is not meeting expectations

Trailer Talk•by Tom Berg•June 28, 2012

Mack trailer among vehicles at company's Allentown museum

Did you know that Mack Truck at one time built trailers? I didn't until last week when, along with other truck writers, I toured the Mack Museum in its recently established Customer Center in Allentown, Pa

All That's Trucking•by Deborah Lockridge•June 27, 2012

Lessons from the '60s

Randall McCauley drove his first truck at age 8, a 1940s GMC hauling hay on the farm in Barbour County, W.V

All That's Trucking•by Deborah Lockridge•June 26, 2012

New Owners, Same HDT

You may have heard HDT has a new owner. You may even have wondered if that would mean any changes within these pages. If so, you can stop wondering. HDT will still be the same award-winning magazine with the same experienced editorial team

On the Road•by Jim Park•June 25, 2012

Crash Prevention? Sorry, not our job.

With a potential calamity hanging in the balance, why didn't law enforcement in this small Canadian tourist town take any action to prevent it, or at least investigate what I had called to tell them?

All That's Trucking•by Deborah Lockridge•June 19, 2012

Talk about a food truck...

A Titan by Mack now greets visitors to the Levitt Pavilion at SteelStacks, an arts and cultural center and the former site of Bethlehem Steel in Bethlehem, Pa

Trailer Talk•by Tom Berg•June 15, 2012

UFO on a trailer bares the truth about Roswell!

Please understand that I still believe that something significant happened near Roswell, N.M., back in 1947, in spite of what the public was told.

On the Road•by Jim Park•June 15, 2012

One-third of American workers are sleep-deprived

Americans, it seems, are chronically sleep deprived. Perhaps not dramatically so, but we're sleepy enough to make the radar screen at the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. Research shows that over 30% of workers aged 30-64 are short of sleep

All That's Trucking•by Deborah Lockridge•June 14, 2012

Dust storms as poetry

You're not a Jedi / This is not Tatooine, Luke / Pull over now, man.

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