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Guest Voices September 23, 2025

The Time is Now to Expand Longer Combination Vehicles [Opinion]

The reauthorization of the federal highway bill offers a rare chance to advance double 53-foot LCVs. Industry leaders shouldn’t miss it, says a longtime trailer industry professional in this Guest Voices blog post.

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Guest Voices November 12, 2019

Why Americans Won't See LCV Expansion Anytime Soon [Opinion]

There won’t be any nationwide thaw in the 1991 ISTEA freeze on long combination vehicles anytime soon, not in my lifetime anyway, nor probably in my children’s lifetime, says Charlie Willmott in this week's guest voices blog. He would put money on it.

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On the Roadby Jim ParkOctober 24, 2019

Why Waste Time on Platooning When LCVs are More Efficient?

For all the time, money and effort spent on platooning over the past eight years, we probably could have had a nationwide north-south and east-west LCV network in place, contends HDT Equipment Editor Jim Park in his On the Road blog.

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