Truck Fleet Innovators: Meijer's David Hoover
David Hoover accepts his HDT Truck Fleet Innovator award from Editor in Chief Deborah Lockridge at the Mid-America Trucking Show Fleet Forum.
Meijer finished converting its 170-truck fleet of regional daycabs to the 2010 engines last fall, realizing a 47% reduction in particulate matter and a 5% increase in fuel economy.
Instead of buying the "bridge technology" of 2007 engines, Meijer went straight to the EPA-2010 engines.
David Hoover is director of outbound logistics for Meijer, a supercenter chain based in Michigan.
“Dave is always looking for what’s next and how it can help Meijer,” says his boss, Tom McCall, vice president of logistics.
The engine gamble is hardly the only innovation Meijer has adopted under Hoover. The fleet has been using aerodynamic trailer skirts for 10 years, long before California essentially mandated them. It worked with then-Terion a decade ago developing trailer tracking with remote temperature alerts.