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Nominations for the 2025 Emerging Leaders awards close August 21.
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The editors of Heavy Duty Trucking have extended the deadline for nominations for HDT's 2025 Emerging Leader awards, honoring trucking’s next generation of up-and-coming fleet professionals.
If you, or someone you know, is under 40 years old and is making a significant impact at your company and/or in the trucking industry, submit a nomination for the HDT Emerging Leaders award. August 28 is the final deadline!
The honorees will be featured in Heavy Duty Trucking’s digital content and in the September/October print magazine.
Heavy Duty Trucking’s editors launched the Emerging Leaders award program in 2016 to identify some of the up-and-coming leaders in the trucking industry and share their insights with others.
This award honors young leaders who work for a for-hire, private, government, or vocational fleet operating Class 7/8 trucks.
These leaders are influential in the trucking industry, innovative, and successful. They can point to outstanding accomplishments and demonstrate excellent leadership qualities.
Nominees can come from any part of a heavy-duty trucking fleet’s business — management, maintenance, sales, marketing, safety, IT, driver recruiting, training, or other roles. They should hold some level of leadership position, but that could be anything from a shop foreman to the C-suite.
Your nomination should explain how the candidate is making a meaningful impact, showing leadership, and building a strong record of success in their role and within the industry.
We are seeking individuals who:
The 2024 HDT Emerging Leaders were:
How a former commercial vehicle enforcement officer turned director of safety at K&B Transportation is embracing real-world safety technology.
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When the unexpected happens, how you react to, and deal with operational blind spots is critical. Here’s how to keep you recovery on track, when nothing is normal.
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As fleets adopt artificial intelligence for routing, maintenance, and load matching, new security risks are emerging. Learn where the vulnerabilities are and how to put the right controls in place.
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The long-awaited registration system promises a single portal — and tighter fraud controls.
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CargoNet reports fewer supply chain crime events to start 2026. But losses hold steady as organized crime shifts tactics toward impersonation schemes and high-value goods.
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Heavy Duty Trucking is searching for forward-looking leaders at trucking fleets as nominations for HDT’s Truck Fleet Innovators 2026. Deadline is May 15.
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Cargo theft rings plant operatives as drivers inside legitimate, fully vetted carriers, then execute coordinated thefts that look like a traditional straight theft from the outside.
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A modest sequential increase capped the strongest quarterly performance in years, signaling continued freight momentum in early 2026.
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More than 300 carriers across 26 states have been sent to collections as the Ohio Turnpike cracks down on toll evasion and delinquent payments.
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The American Transportation Research Institute will examine driver coaching, regulatory impacts — including the "Beyond Compliance" concept —and weather disruptions that shape trucking operations.
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