Rick Mihelic, contributor

Rick Mihelic

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. 

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Trucking immersion therapy
My hat is off to those who drive 600 miles a day, five days a week. We don’t pay them enough for what they do to get us our materials.
November 11, 2022
wind farm
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The manure supply chain
There is a learning curve with all technologies and it is fundamental to how things are made better.
October 20, 2022
horses and buggy
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Prepare for the electricity demand tsunami
The oncoming wave of electric vehicles could spark an electricity need far greater than the amount of power generated all of last year.
October 14, 2022
Electric vehicle charger
Equipment controls
The autonomous bigfoot
I’ve been reading for months about all the autonomous vehicle (AV) testing going on in Texas and I can finally confirm that they do exist.
October 7, 2022
driverless truck in Texas
Regulations
Big money blues
The U.S. people are not very forgiving of either waste or fraud, and auditors and investigators eventually succeed in discovering both.
September 26, 2022
the U.S.S. Olympia
Business
Business trend: Weathervaning
The business winds of change produce an effect called weathervaning, where companies tend to pivot in the direction of the flow, but it can also be "herd mentality," and it's not always for the best.
September 15, 2022
weathervane
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Seeing air
Measurements of thousands and millions of tons of CO2 are ubiquitous but the scale of these numbers is almost numbing.
September 7, 2022
Smog on the highway
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Fake it ‘til you make it
Optimism always will be a part of promoting technology by those with a vested interest in the technologies.
August 29, 2022
Tesla Semi Truck
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Gasoline and range anxiety
Those that now want an instantaneous fueling network for electric and hydrogen vehicles need to realize that how we use gasoline vehicles evolved as the infrastructure was evolving.
August 15, 2022
Driftwood-texaco
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Corkscrews – a trucking analogy
When you remove the cork from the bottle, you don't need a corkscrew. Could the same be true for batteries and charging capacity?
August 2, 2022
cork screws
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