5 Takeaways From a Billion-Dollar Verdict
What does a record $1 billion verdict against two trucking companies involved in a fatal crash mean for the industry? HDT Editor in Chief Deborah Lockridge shares some takeaways.
September 7, 2021
What does a record $1 billion verdict against two trucking companies involved in a fatal crash mean for the industry? HDT Editor in Chief Deborah Lockridge shares some takeaways.
September 7, 2021
Economic growth and freight rates are expected to remain solid well into 2022, according to transportation analysis firm FTR, but the struggle to find drivers is expected to continue to plague the industry.
September 6, 2021
The Waymo Via engineering team has received one of the first Freightliner Cascadia trucks developed specifically for its autonomous-tech Waymo Driver.
September 2, 2021
Dillon Logistics, an Illinois-based tank carrier, abruptly shut its doors the last day of August, according to several published reports.
September 2, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic did not slow down commitments to sustainability in the supply chain. Interest in not only energy savings and renewable energy increased significantly. Here’s the sustainability data you need to know from HDT’s 2021 Fact Book.
August 31, 2021
Demand for trucks and trailers has been robust since orders bottomed out during the first months of the pandemic last year. Here’s the equipment data you need to know from HDT’s 2021 Fact Book.
August 27, 2021
Find out why National Transportation Safety Board Member Michael Graham is advocating collision-avoidance technology — and why technology alone is not enough.
August 27, 2021
Safety issues are more important to trucking fleets than ever, affecting nearly every aspect of the business. Don't miss this original data from HDT's annual fleet safety survey published in HDT's 2021 Fact Book.
August 25, 2021
Supply chains have had to adapt to rapidly changing conditions and challenges. Has the logistics world achieved the ability to expand or shrink capacity depending on ever-changing variables? Check out this logistics data from HDT’s 2021 Fact Book.
August 24, 2021
Despite the challenges of a driver shortage, scrambled supply chains and order backlogs, conditions for making money in trucking have exploded since the lift of spring 2020 COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns. See the data that backs it up from HDT's 2021 Fact Book.
August 23, 2021
If hydrogen fuel-cell trucks are truly part of the answer for a zero-emissions future, the upstream process of producing and transporting that hydrogen fuel also needs to be “green.”
August 19, 2021
Waymo is the latest autonomous-truck developer to partner with Ryder to help scale its operations but likely won't be the last.
August 18, 2021
Foodservice distribution giant Sysco is starting its own driver training school in the face of an increasingly challenging labor market.
August 17, 2021
With fleets "desperate for new dry vans," trailer makers continue to struggle to increase production rates to meet high demand in the face of supply chain, staffing, and material shortage issues.
August 13, 2021
Ten battery-electric yard tractors are now in operation in Port Newark, New Jersey, which Red Hook Container Terminals said it is the single largest deployment of battery-electric trucks in the eastern U.S.
August 13, 2021
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