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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•February 14, 2012

Time means nothing to an over-the-road driver. But it seems a couple of carriers, at least, are trying to rectify that. A couple of recent announcements from Baylor Trucking and Con-way Truckload regarding weekly minimum pay for their drivers are heartening indeed

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All That's Trucking•by Deborah Lockridge•February 8, 2012

How to be more innovative

I've been surrounded by the concept of innovation lately. For the past few weeks, I've been selecting and interviewing our 2012 Truck Fleet Innovators for our March cover story - always fascinating. And last week, I enjoyed a thought-provoking session on innovation during the 2012 Recruitment & Retention Conferenc

On the Road•by Jim Park•February 2, 2012

What trucking can learn from the airlines

For-hire trucking could learn a few things from the airlines, because they have finally figured out how to make money in a deregulated environment

All That's Trucking•by Deborah Lockridge•February 1, 2012

What do trucks and a yacht have in common?

So what were a group of truck journalists doing last week on a 75-foot sport-fishing luxury yacht? Learning about the power of integration

All That's Trucking•by Deborah Lockridge•January 23, 2012

Tracking trends with HDT's Top 20

Each year, Heavy Duty Trucking's editors pore through the pages of the last 12 months of product announcements we've run in the magazine and click through the pages of Truckinginfo.com, in search of the most innovative, significant and useful equipment and other items to honor as our Top 20

Trailer Talk•by Tom Berg•January 20, 2012

Underride guards in Japan look weaker but cover more area than here

Underride guards are becoming topical in the United States as the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety is petitioning federal safety authorities to toughen the regulation that govern the design on rear bumpers on trailers.

On the Road•by Jim Park•January 19, 2012

The driver shortage is a myth

There are thousands of men and women out there today with a CDL in their pocket no longer working as truck drivers. Why is the industry moaning about a shortage of drivers?

All That's Trucking•by Deborah Lockridge•January 17, 2012

Diversification Diligence

Diversification. It's a tactic trucking companies have been embracing for a while now

All That's Trucking•by Deborah Lockridge•January 12, 2012

So when will Google invent a self-driving truck?

Did you know Google has a fleet of robotic cars

On the Road•by Jim Park•January 10, 2012

Trucking down the glass highway

Glass highway? Does that have something to do with electronic dashboards, as in the Glass Cockpit concept in modern aircraft? Nope, we're talking about roadways made of glass. But you're not far off on the electronic angle

Trailer Talk•by Tom Berg•January 9, 2012

Pickup bed coating wards off corrosion from calcium chloride, this fleet manager finds

What's the best way to combat corrosion caused by aggressive anti-road-icing salts? One fleet manager has coated the undersides of trucks and trailers with a product used to line pickup beds

On the Road•by Jim Park•January 4, 2012

Underinflated tires don't work very well

Regular readers of Heavy Duty Trucking may know me as The Tire Guy. I've written the magazine's tire feature every month for the past four years or so. I got a dose of my own medicine on Christmas Day, trying to take my motorcycle out for a rare winter spin

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