Rick Mihelic, contributor

Rick Mihelic is NACFE’s Director of Emerging Technologies. He has authored for NACFE four Guidance Reports on electric and alternative fuel medium- and heavy-duty trucks and several Confidence Reports on Determining Efficiency, Tractor and Trailer Aerodynamics, Two Truck Platooning, and authored special studies on Regional Haul, Defining Production and Intentional Pairing of tractor trailers.

Details matter

While there are truth-in-advertising regulations, they can get a bit murky.

March 20, 2023

MAN's aerodynamic concept truck

Alternative power

It ain’t easy being green. Or is it?

Green energy is any energy that groups can make money off of.

March 13, 2023

Volvo H2 Colors Copy

What are standards good for?

What started with repurposing World War II surplus turned into global trade revolution.

February 21, 2023

Ocean container ship

New truck buyers dictate the portfolio planning of used truck buyers

Fleets that buy new trucks largely dictate the vehicles that second and third buyers will choose from, and that will soon include zero-emission trucks.

February 20, 2023

used semi trucks for sale

Alternative power

Soup of the day

There's a tangled web of overlapping acronyms to describe electric, hydrogen-powered and zero-emissions trucks, but somewhere along the line we would like to get back to just calling it a truck, right?

February 13, 2023

Trucksmiths embracing change

The trucking industry has been changing since horse drawn wagons started being replaced by the first Mack Brothers motorized vehicles in Manhattan in 1904.

January 29, 2023

Mechanic tearing down an engine

Alternative power

Biloxi greens

As we start spending billions of dollars on new systems to responsibly keep our freight moving into the future, expect that tradeoffs and compromises will occur.

January 17, 2023

Wind turbines and solar panels

Questions about autonomous vehicles

The cottage industries that pre-dated the industrial revolution built skilled labor, craftspeople and tradespeople but the industrial revolution largely put these skilled positions on the back burner.

January 4, 2023

driverless truck cab

Battery electric

The long road to electric trucks

The long road to the electrification of trucking will see new cities start, while others become ghost towns or isolated spots.

December 22, 2022

San Antonio to El Paso, Texas

Diversity in trucking shines if you know where to look for it

I’ve always felt that the greatest progress in improving the participation of underrepresented groups in the work place is by hiring them, seeing them at work and interacting with them.

December 7, 2022

This year’s Women in Trucking Accelerate had a record setting 1,750 attendees.

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drivers looking at a U.S. Xpress trailer

Knight-Swift acquiring U.S. Xpress for more than $800 million

Updated: The combination of two of CCJ's Top 20 for-hire carriers creates a new mega fleet and further solidifies Knight-Swift as a truckload behemoth as it acquires approximately 7,200 tractors and 14,400 trailers.

truck waiting at a stop light

Texas-based project would give freight trucks priority at red lights

traffic in smog

Report: California will be allowed to set its own emissions limits

Autonomous trucks from Daimler subsidiary Torc Robotics have been busy testing in southwestern states save for California where Class 3 - 8 autonomous vehicles aren't welcome.

California autonomous vehicle testing leaps ahead while leaving trucking behind

The 2023 State Of Heavy Duty Repair Report is here.

The 2023 State Of Heavy Duty Repair Report is here.