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Driving into the 3G Sunset

Remember the Y2K scare? At the time, many people worried airplanes would fall from the sky and every bit of digital data ever collected would simply vanish. As it happened, very little changed that winter night January 31, 1999. Come the spring of 2022, however, when some wireless service providers start turning off their 3G networks, some older technology will quit working. Our guest, Michael Bloom, vice president of product and marketing for video and telematics provider, SmartWitness, explains what will happen when they throw the switch, and how fleets can avoid getting left in the digital dark.

SmartWitness

AT&T Phasing Out 3G

Verizon: Get Your Fleet Ready for the 3G to 4G Transition

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Season 8

Inside a High School Truck Driver Training Program

Hear what one truck-driver-turned-high-school-teacher is doing to usher in the next generation of truck drivers through one of the nation’s first high school truck driver programs.

Is the Real World Ready for Driverless Trucks?

Christopher Hart is a former chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board and a licensed commercial pilot. He has been studying automation in transportation for years. On this episode of HDT Talks Trucking, Hart explains why he’s uneasy about sharing the road with driverless vehicles.

Inspections and Maintenance for Autonomous Trucks

Ryder will soon be managing maintenance services for several fleets of autonomous vehicles. On this episode of HDT Talks Trucking, Ryder’s director of new product strategy, Mike Plasencia, explains what it takes to keep driverless trucks running.

How to Build an Electric Medium-duty Fleet

In this episode of HDT Talks Trucking, Jim Castalez of Motiv Power Systems talks about what it takes to bring a fleet through a pilot project and grow it to a full-service, fully functioning electric fleet. Hint: It's about much more than just replacing the trucks.

Is There a Better Way to Measure Fuel Economy?

Are you frustrated by inaccurate performance claims by fuel saving device manufacturers? Our guest on this episode of HDT Talks Trucking, Daryl Bear of Mesilla Valley Transportation Solutions, says better testing can provide more reliable data to help fleets with their buying decisions.

Is Your Fleet Ready for FA-4 Oil?

Despite the fuel saving benefits of FA-4 oils, fleets are wading in slowly – and for a number of good reasons. To help sort out the restrictions and explain who can start using FA 4 and who should hold off, we have with us Tom Gauerke, the National Fleet Account Manager at Chevron Global Lubricants North America.

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