Plus/FAW Joint Venture First to Certify Self-Driving Truck in China
Independent certification of the self-driving technology is a critical step toward proving the commercial readiness its self-driving technology in China.
November 9, 2020
Independent certification of the self-driving technology is a critical step toward proving the commercial readiness its self-driving technology in China.
November 9, 2020
Productivity and efficiency can be greatly enhanced through better and closer management. That once cost time and money; then ELDs came along.
November 6, 2020
There's much more to preventing tired or drowsy driving than just complying with hours of service. A sleep expert and author offers a few tips on how to keep truck drivers awake and alert at the wheel.
November 4, 2020
Testing autonomous trucks is more complex than it seems. The men and women sitting in the left seat of the nation's burgeoning fleet of robotic trucks are often called safety drivers. Their responsibilities are far more comprehensive than just keeping the truck out of trouble.
September 3, 2020
A one-year suspension of the HVUT would be the best way to provide economic relief to all motor carriers, according to OOIDA
August 3, 2020
Advanced driver assistance systems have come a long way in the past few years. These fleets say they are very happy with the results so far, but driver training and coaching are key.
July 21, 2020
Lease-operator couple Chanté and Chris Drew came down with COVID-19 in March, nine days and more than 1,000 miles from home. Getting back home was just half the battle.
June 11, 2020
Predictive Collision Alerts fuse driver behavior, vehicle movement, traffic elements, and contextual data to help predict and prevent collisions
May 20, 2020
Richard Bishop, AI industry analyst and intelligent vehicle applications specialist, spoke with Jim Park about autonomous trucks for an episode of the HDT Talks Trucking podcast.
April 6, 2020
The best protection against COVID-19 is to assume it's everywhere and to take proper precautions, like washing your hands and cleaning surfaces – including in a truck cab.
March 31, 2020
Volvo's Dynamic Steering adds a lot of flexibility to a truck and the ability to control steering inputs more precisely, taking a lot of the load off of the driver.
September 13, 2019
Equipment Editor Jim Park, himself a driver and owner-operator for 20 years, disagrees with the notion of a driver shortage. There are 10 million CDL holders in the U.S. and only 3.7 million trucks requiring CDL drivers. How is that a shortage?
August 5, 2019
While the Indy race car drivers get the glory, they'd be high and dry without the team of drivers that get the race cars to the event.
July 16, 2019
A truck driver can drive down a mountain 100 times too slowly, but only once too fast. An inexperienced driver on a steep grade could spell disaster unless properly trained.
July 3, 2019
GPS is clearly the navigation method of choice in trucking, and amongst the general population, but chronic GPS users might be doing their brains a disservice, and missing out on a lot of excitement by getting lost once in a while, says Equipment Editor Jim Park in his latest blog.
June 23, 2019