Material Handling Equipment Distributors Association’s Annual Convention And Exhibitor Showcase
Pittsburgh to Use New Routing Technology on Snow Removal Fleet
The City of Pittsburgh is deploying telematics, route optimization, and navigation services in an effort to reduce salt spreading by 33% while maintaining the same level of road de-icing.
Here’s to Our Winners
The managers, executives, and owners of truck operations who are honored each year by Heavy Duty Trucking with our Truck Fleet Innovator awards so often seem to be moving at a fast clip in how they think about things. Blog Commentary by Executive Edito…
FMCSA Sets June Date to Publish its Proposed Hours-of-Service Changes
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has slated publication of its notice of proposed rulemaking on changes to the Hours of Service rule for June 7.
In wake of Colo. crash, reserve judgment, says Gordon Alkire, recounting a ’70s no-brakes run down Monteagle Mountain
Gordon Alkire, retired owner-operator of Riley, Kan., asks fellow drivers to reserve judgment in the wake of the devastating crash in Colorado last week. “Ask yourself if that could have been you?” he wrote, telling a harrowing tale of a 1970s run, nex…
Great Dane Exhibits at Nikola’s Event
A high-tech trailer belongs with a futuristic tractor, the builder seemed to state by its presence at Nikola World, says Senior Contributing Editor Tom Berg.
Trucker faces 40 criminal counts stemming from deadly I-70 crash near Denver
Rogel Lazaro Aguilera-Mederos was formally charged Friday with four counts of vehicular homicide, six counts of first-degree assault, 24 counts of attempted first-degree assault, two counts of vehicular assault, one count reckless driving and three cou…
Mike Landis: Managing sticky situations in food-grade liquid bulk
The independent fell into his current dedicated hauling for a tank fleet based near his hometown in Lititz, Pa., hauling reefer freight in a trailer he owned. A mutual associate recommended his Landis & Sons one-truck business years ago to the tank…
J.D. Howard: Short hauls and frequent home time in Midwest asphalt haul
Four years ago, owner-operator J.D. Howard joined Dan Ratta’s Marshallville, Ohio-based small liquid-asphalt-hauling operation, Ratta Trucking. At that time, he paid around $65,000 for a new 42-foot 7,500-gallon all-aluminum insulated 2015 Polar high-h…
Dennis Holliday: A ‘smart’ move to hazmat chemical tanks
Dennis Holliday started trucking in the early 1980s in a GMC Astro cabover, hauling for North American Van Lines. Like most household movers, he was involved in a lot of the loading and unloading. He says he didn’t get into liquid-bulk tank hauling unt…