
HDT Honors the Best New Products of 2025 at TMC [Photos]
Heavy Duty Trucking's Top 20 Products awards recognize the best new products and technologies. Check out the award presentations at the 2026 Technology & Maintenance Council annual meeting.


Heavy Duty Trucking's Top 20 Products awards recognize the best new products and technologies. Check out the award presentations at the 2026 Technology & Maintenance Council annual meeting.


When commercial vehicle drivers are instructed to pull into a weigh station, what should they expect? These photos take you inside a Georgia weigh station. Learn how weight inspectors and officers work together to make trucking safer.


With the recent addition of the fed's Drug and Alcohol Clearinghouse, the industry is now, more than ever, in need of data concerning the safety of its drivers and the environment in which they work.


Truck drivers have been facing a wide range of situations on the road during the COVID-19 pandemic, from appreciation for the work they're doing to not being allowed to use restrooms, as you'll see in this photo gallery.


HDT Executive Editor David Cullen takes you inside the exhibit hall of the Transportation Research Board's 99th Annual Meeting. TRB works to advance all modes of transportation, including improving highways to make freight movements by truck safer and more efficient.


The decline of our nation's highways is evident in our 2019 Fact Book, with statistics indicating increasing congestion in our busiest regions and an increasing need for repair.


Three Volvo tractors pulling twin trailers using FedEx Specs demonstrated truck platooning in North Carolina on June 27, automatically maintaining 1.5-second following distance. Deborah Lockridge was there and has these photos.


A pictorial look at the monthly contest launched at truckload carrier G&P Trucking Company for drivers who have achieved best-in-class safety performance. The program is credited with bringing about a decrease in distracted driving and month-over-month improvements in driver safety scores. Photos and text by Andy Leuthe, Senior Director Product Marketing, SmartDrive Systems.




Peterbilt demonstrated its latest technology and a number of concept vehicles, including autonomous technologies, at its Technology Showcase event for trucking reporters. Editor in Chief Deborah Lockridge covered the event.


Daimler Trucks rolled back the curtain a little further on the autonomous commercial vehicle it revealed for the first time in July. The truck, and the self-driving concept, is being developed as part of Daimler Trucks' "Shaping Future Transportation" initiative to conserve resources, reduce emissions and to ensure traffic safety through vehicle-to-infrastructure and vehicle-to-vehicle communications.
