New Pilot opens in Odessa, Texas
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A Complete Tech Transformation for Trucking
Taken alone, new technology in trucking is amazing. Look at the Big Picture, however, and you start to see how radical the changes coming may very well be.
Webinar Exploring Five Ways To Increase Profit and Cut Costs
Heavy Duty Trucking magazine is hosting a free webinar on Nov. 7 examining the increasing business challenges fleet managers are tasked with to maintain profitability as operation costs increase.
Driver shortage a self-inflicted wound, says expert
MISSISSAUGA, Ont. – The problem of the driver shortage in Canada is a “self-inflicted” wound, an expert told the Surface Transportation Summit on Wednesday. “What I think may not be a popular belief in the room, but it’s a little…
CBD Use Cost This Truck Driver His Job
A long time hazmat truck driver was using CBD oil for pain management and thought that it contained no THC. But when he tested positive for high levels of THC in his next drug test, he lost his job of 10 years.
Survey Says: How Fleets Regard Fuel and Oil Additives
This month’s edition of Survey Says looks at how fleets regard fuel and oil additives, including the improvements they are most interested about and the need for cetane-improving additives for diesel fuel.
Peterbilt Delivers First Electric Model 220EV to Frito-Lay
Peterbilt has delivered the first Model 220EV. Frito-Lay will deploy six of the battery-electric medium-duty trucks.
News roundup, Oct. 16: Digital freight broker updates, LTL hauler’s last-mile expansion, new Pilot opens in Texas
Archerhub, a digital freight broker based in Denver, has a built-in “back-up plan” with its own small fleet of trucks. FedEx Freight is expanding its LTL final mile services. Pilot Flying J opened a new travel center in Odessa, Texas.
AOBRD-to-ELD — absent new reg/legislative action, ‘soft enforcement’ not happening
With the final ELD mandate deadline coming up Dec. 17, no “soft enforcement” period is in the offing — “nobody’s really talking about it,” says Collin Mooney, executive director of the Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance.
2020 Medium-Duty Trucks
Here are a few of the medium-duty models for truck fleets in the 2020 model-year.