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.
The North American Council for Freight Efficiency announced the 10 fleets that will participate in its Run on Less Regional real-world fleet operational comparison study this Fall.
Learn more about Shell's fuel-saving Starship concept truck in this video, as HDT's Jack Roberts talks to Shell's Dan Arcy following a cross-country run by the truck.
Securing America's Future Energy found that long-haul trucks account for 13% of daily petroleum consumption. Its new report says adopting 33-foot twin trailers and platooning technologies in the trucking industry could help save fuel and reduce U.S. dependence on oil.
Shell Rotella’s next-generation concept truck, nicknamed the Starship, is set to debut early in 2018, and the company says it will focus on freight efficiency rather than raw miles per gallon.
It appears autonomous technology will be a winner from the mpg standpoint, according to a new report, with fuel economy increases of up to 18% for most commercial vehicles by 2050.
Navistar's SuperTruck is the fourth and final truck to come from round 1 of the Department of Energy's SuperTruck funding initiative. Equipment Editor Jim Park caught up with the truck and chief engineer Dean Oppermann at the annual conference of the SAE Commercial Vehicles conference in Rosemont, Illinois.
Navistar has revealed that its SuperTruck program demonstration vehicle, CatalIST, exceeded the improvement goals set by the Department of Energy for the SuperTruck program.
With a 115% freight efficiency improvement and 12.2 mpg, the DTNA team had to pull out all the stops to turn its goals into realities.
Mike Roeth is the executive director of the North American Council for Freight Efficiency. We talked to him about his group's mission, fuel economy and freight efficiency in general.