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Light- and medium-duty focus: Package Fleets

Productive Packages Evolving UPS, FedEx package fleets deliver productivity gains, fuel economy By John G. Smith Dale Spencer admits that UPS package vehicles look similar from one model year to the next. “There’s only so much you can do with a shoebox,” says the company’s director of maintenance ...

By John G. Smith Published September 1, 2012

Equipment

Product reviews, OEM & supplier news and equipment management trends The future of fleet energy Price spikes slowly driving U.S. toward alternative fuels Sitting in the front row listening to U.S. Energy Secretary Dr. Stephen Chu speak at the NTEA Work Truck Show in Indianapolis was about as ...

By Jack Roberts Published April 1, 2012

Trash talk The latest changes to refuse vehicles are extending equipment life, reducing emissions and enhancing safety Bob Nicholas, fleet director of Waste Pro USA, which has 1,400 vehicles working in seven states, knows that today’s refuse trucks share little in common with those that rolled along ...

By John G. Smith Published January 3, 2012

CSA'S Data Trail

Risk & Reward, Part 2: CSA data shows independents at risk

Independent wner-operators have a much greater chance of getting inspected and put out of service than owner-operators and company drivers at large ...