Renewable sources of hydrogen promise carbon-free, zero-emissions energy for trucking. We seem to be on the cusp of a new era; truly clean, green trucking. Or are we?
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The National Transportation Institute's Leah Shaver challenges some conventional thinking about women in trucking, from behind the wheel to the board room, in this episode of HDT Talks Trucking.
Read More →Meet Sarah Cates, recipient of the 2023 HDT Safety & Compliance Award, in this HDT Talks Trucking interview. Cates has been the director of safety at Keller Trucking for only three years, but her focus on drivers has transformed the company’s safety culture.
Read More →What can trucking fleets do now to transform their operations and be ready to take advantage of the next freight upturn? HDT's Deborah Lockridge recently talked to Tom McLeod about why this is the right time for a tune-up on this episode of HDT Talks Trucking.
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Want to learn how roadside inspectors see that puts trucks out of service? Find out in this episode of HDT Talks Trucking. John Seidl is vice president of risk services at Reliance Partners, the owner of transportation consulting company Trucking Wins, and a former Wisconsin State Patrol roadside inspection officer.
Read More →Having a truck placed out of service is not only inconvenient, and potentially embarrassing, it’s also frightfully expensive. John Seidl is a former commercial inspection officer and he tells HDT's Jim Park how fleets can follow the same defect-detecting mindset inspectors use to cut their out-of-service violations.
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Trucking has a parking problem — more trucks than parking spaces. Jim Ward, president of the Truckload Carriers Association, joins HDT Equipment Editor Jim Park on HDT Talks Trucking to discuss the scope of the problem, potential solutions, and the thorny issue of paying for parking.
Read More →Jim Ward, president of the Truckload Carriers Association, joins HDT Equipment Editor Jim Park on HDT Talks Trucking to talk about the truck parking problem: the scope of the problem, some potential solutions, and the thorny issue of paying for parking.
Read More →Bison Transport is arguably the safest large fleet in North America. It hasn't always been that way. Garth Pitzel talks about the company's journey from compliant-but-not-safe to winning TCA's top safety award 13 years in a row, in this episode of HDT Talks Trucking.
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Happy drivers tend to stay put. So, it's important to open up communication channels with your drivers -- and keep them open. And modern communication technologies can help you do just that.
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