09 Mar Lighting the Way Today’s fleets are increasingly shifting toward LED headlights, not only for truck drivers’ safety but also to improve maintenance and the overall operation of the truck, industry experts said. Read more...
09 Mar Technology Could Attract New Truck Maintenance Technicians The trucking industry needs to hire about 30,000 maintenance technicians to keep up with demand. Read more...
09 Mar Alphabet’s Waymo Takes on Freight in Atlanta With Driverless Semis Waymo will start testing a fleet of autonomous freight trucks in Georgia’s capital that will take deliveries to Google’s data centers. Read more...
09 Mar Career Pathways Are Evolving In today’s data-driven world, where much of fleet management strives to solve all of its problems strictly by the numbers, consider the following truth: Data does not fix anything. Read more...
09 Mar Putting the ‘Up’ in Uptime "Uptime,” or keeping trucks running and earning money for their fleets and drivers rather than broken down on the side of the road, is a much-touted term in this industry — for good reason. Read more...
09 Mar Technology Could Attract New Truck Maintenance Technicians The trucking industry needs to hire about 30,000 maintenance technicians to keep up with demand. Read more...
09 Mar Maintenance Shop Management With the increasing complexity of modern trucks and an even higher premium placed on drivers’ time, Glen McDonald, maintenance director at Ozark Motor Lines, knew he needed to maximize shop labor and move trucks through his fleet’s maintenance shops more quickly, all of which required an updated approach. Read more...
09 Mar Mobile Lifts Gaining Momentum in Service Shops Ryder System Inc.is one company whose fleet maintenance technicians are using mobile lifts to get under big rigs. Read more...
09 Mar Trump Optimistic on NAFTA After Canada, Mexico Dodge Metals Tariffs Trump followed through with imposing tariffs on imported steel and aluminum, while excluding Canada and Mexico. Read more...
09 Mar BNSF Combining Technology, Human Expertise to Improve Operations At Burlington Northern Santa Fe, it’s the combination of people and technology that’s making the railway safer and more efficient. Read more...