Cox Acquires Dickinson Fleet Services to Expand Mobile Maintenance
Cox Automotive has acquired fleet mobile maintenance provider Dickinson Fleet Services to bolster the capabilities and geographic reach of its nationwide Pivet fleet services marketplace, and focus on powering a fleet future that is dependent on mobile…
Daimler Trucks Fined $30 Million Over Delayed Truck Recalls
The consent order includes both monetary and non-monetary provisions designed to improve Daimler Trucks North America’s compliance with the law and to improve the company’s safety practices.
Assessing the Ford F-150 Hybrid for Fleets
Our test of the new F-150 PowerBoost netted an extraordinary 19.2 average mpg with a 1,732-lb. payload and 25.1 mpg without. Adding PowerBoost’s 12,700 lbs. of max towing, is it blasphemy to finally turn our backs on diesel for true work applications?
Hear what sort of shape the bridges you drive over are in
More than half in need of repair
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Halvor’s Top Safety Exec Brings HR Perspective to Safety
Adam Lang, chief risk officer for Halvor Lines, started his career in human resources. What does that mean for the 2020 HDT Safety & Compliance award winner’s role in heading up safety?
Shorter 14-hour pauses, DOL’s independent contractor ruling on Biden’s early scratch list
The Biden administration plans to halt or delay a number of the Trump administration’s “midnight regulations,” which include several proposed trucking regs. In other news: FMCSA looks to update its “yard move” HOS guidance; Volvo recalls approx. 6,300 …
Workhorse Receives Largest Electric Van Order
The order for 6,320 C-Series all-electric delivery vehicles was placed by Pride Group Enterprises, a Canadian and U.S. based company with businesses in transportation equipment retail, wholesale, rental, leasing, and logistics.
Creating Data That Can Help Drive Electric Fleet Vehicles
Business intelligence analysis provider Utilimarc is setting up the process to field detailed information on running electric vehicles in large fleets.
A tragic postscript to a tough year: Remembering Liam Salmon
Owner-operator Howard Salmon’s son passed on December 31. He will be remembered for many things, not least the way the five-year-old’s story impacted those in the trucking community and elsewhere nationally, raising the profile of a rare illness.
The p…
POLL: Your business outlook for 2021?
A new president in the White House, an ongoing pandemic, but well better than average spot markets in January … how are you reading the tea leaves for your business’ likely performance for 2021?
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