How to Deal With Extreme Heat
High temperatures can lead to engines overheating, breakdowns, and tire blowouts. Here are nine tips for managing this hazard.
High temperatures can lead to engines overheating, breakdowns, and tire blowouts. Here are nine tips for managing this hazard.
Akasol is one of Europe’s largest supplier of battery systems for commercial vehicles with hybrid-electric or all-electric drives and is now moving into the North American commercial vehicle market.
Included in this groundbreaking total cost of ownership study for fleets are battery-electric models including BMW i3, Chevrolet Bolt, Nissan Leaf, and Tesla 3, as well as plug-in hybrid electric models such as Chevrolet Volt and Hyundai Ioniq Plug-In Hybrid.
Find out how to create a GPS tracking executive dashboard customized to solve your unique business challenges, such as safety, driver accountability, and fleet efficiency.
Toyota's 2020 Corolla, and its hybrid variant, present a good option for fleets seeking a compact sedan with excellent fuel economy.
Three small fleet operators with diverse fleets discuss their needs for a telematics system, how they chose the right provider, and their process for implementation. Trio Forest Products needed to upgrade its legacy GPS track-and-trace system with new technology. Later, when ELD regulations were put in place, the Mesa, Arizona-based wholesale lumber supplier took advantage of the telematics provider’s ELD solution. The ELD tablet is visible next to the driver.
While trucking fleets aren’t required to have a telematics device aboard their vehicles, those that do have seen significant improvements in efficiency, productivity, and safety.
The Rock Island County, Ill.-based transit agency continues to explore ways to better serve its communities.
Yes, an all-electric pickup can tow 1.25 million pounds, but to deliver one with verifiable specs, at scale, and at a reasonable price point is a different equation entirely.
In Josh Switkes’ view, it's way too premature to write truck platooning off as a dead end technology. And HDT Senior Editor Jack Roberts agrees with that point.
Existing maintenance garages can be retrofit to handle electrics, but the infrastructure upgrades required can be significant.
Nearly 840,000 blind spot collisions occur in the U.S. annually resulting in approximately 300 fatalities, according to NHTSA.
The winner of The Fleet Executive of the Year award will be announced at the 2019 AFLA Conference in Phoenix, Arizona.
Recent closures have prompted headlines touting trucking’s “bloodbath” and “apocalypse.” But anyone who has been in this business for very long at all knows trucking is extremely cyclical.
Accident rates remained mostly consistent in this year’s safety report. Rear-end and parking collisions were the most prevalent.
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