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All That's Trucking

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

Deborah Lockridge

Deborah Lockridge

Editor and Associate Publisher

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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

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

Jack Roberts

Executive Editor

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All That's Trucking•by Deborah Lockridge•May 10, 2011

Closing the Trailer Gap

When you see drawings or mockups of futuristic trucks, one of the things you'll notice is there's virtually no gap between the tractor and trailer

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All That's Trucking•by Deborah Lockridge•May 10, 2011

A talk with PacLease's Hunter about leasing, rental, equipment trends

An aging fleet, the high cost of fuel, sticker shock on new trucks, and a recovering economy are driving interest in leasing, according to Olen Hunter, director of sales at PacLease

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Trailer Talk•by Tom Berg•May 10, 2011

Here's more scientific and real-world proof that trailer aerodynamics work.

Jack Latimer sells Airtabs, the wishbone-shaped aero enhancers that many truckers apply to the trailing edges of tractors and trailers. He keeps tabs (so to speak) on studies of truck aerodynamics and recently sent us this information

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On the Road•by Jim Park•May 4, 2011

Maybe the DOT <B>should</B> pay for naps

Ray LaHood should resign over his remarks regarding the recent spate of napping air traffic controllers. He has revealed himself to be so far behind current thinking on the value of naps in safety sensitive environments that his judgment can't be trusted

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All That's Trucking•by Deborah Lockridge•May 2, 2011

Blinded by Science in Hours of Service Debate

As the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration goes about rewriting its hours of service rules for truck drivers, it has been careful to make sure those changes are backed up by scientific studies. But it's starting to look like the regulators need to go back to science class

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Trailer Talk•by Tom Berg•May 2, 2011

Sometimes people keep lightweight equipment from paying off

Many truckers seek lightweight equipment so they can carry more payload, and manufacturers strive to cut poundage from their vehicles. But in the real world, how much cargo goes aboard often depends on the guy doing the loading

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All That's Trucking•by Deborah Lockridge•April 29, 2011

Storm stories

[UPDATED] I woke up this morning to a story on the radio about a man in Tuscaloosa, Ala., finding the body of a neighbor's child under the wreckage of his house

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Trailer Talk•by Tom Berg•April 22, 2011

From trucker to trailer maker

There are almost as many stories at the Mid-America Trucking Show as the tens of thousands of people who attend the huge confab in Louisville, Ky., every March. One story is Jimmy Wink, a fleet operator and now trailer make

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All That's Trucking•by Deborah Lockridge•April 15, 2011

Ole Number One finds a new home in Iowa

The first truck to go into service for Con-way Central Express, a 1983 Ford CL9000 cabover, has a new home at the Iowa 80 Trucking Museum in Walcott, Iowa

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Trailer Talk•by Tom Berg•April 11, 2011

'Hybrid' replacing 'composite' in the trailer and body business

Since the advent of fuel-saving hybrid-drive cars and trucks, the "h" word has taken on enough shine that it's now sometimes employed in place of older terms. I notice things like this because I'm a word merchant, see

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All That's Trucking•by Deborah Lockridge•April 8, 2011

Got a Million-Mile Engine?

How much is a million? A children's book says it would take 23 days to even count to a million and that a goldfish bowl large enough to hold a million goldfish could hold a whale. For truckers, a million miles is about 10 years

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All That's Trucking•by Deborah Lockridge•March 31, 2011

Demography 101: Understanding Demographic Trends and What They Mean to Trucking

"Demography trumps everything," says demographer Ken Gronbach. "If you don't have people to drive your trucks, what do you have?"

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