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. 

Alternative power
It’s a numbers game
As of Spring this year, there are reportedly more than 140,000 orders for zero-emissions Class 2b-8 vehicles, but as of last December, CALSTART reported there were only about 1,250 ZEVs of all classes registered in the U.S.
June 6, 2022
Commercial trucks at a charging terminal
Business
The long road to aerodynamics
Great ideas introduced at this year’s truck shows may have origins as far back as decades ago.
May 24, 2022
NASA flow testing truck
Alternative power
There’s no such concept as can’t
Focusing on the negative tends to be a losing argument.
May 11, 2022
Nikola trucks
Business
The ten percent solution
There are no average trucks, no average drivers and no average loads.
May 2, 2022
tractor roof fairings
Alternative power
Let’s just get it done
Today we are facing global risks as challenging as World War II. Detroit and America are again being asked to completely retool to help save the planet — to electrify transportation.
April 17, 2022
female workers in World War II
Alternative power
How do you design a truck?
Once you understand the relationship between the pieces, you grasp why trucks look the way they do and how hard it is to change their shape.
March 17, 2022
truck assembly
Alternative power
Shifting paradigms
The “driver shortage” is not just a trucking industry issue. It’s a driving system level issue.
March 7, 2022
truck driver shifting gears
Used trucks
The great unknowns of residual modeling
Fleets are facing an unprecedented level of change as the industry moves into the next decade and the lack of certainty is a huge challenge in making long-term investment plans for capital equipment.
January 29, 2022
Used trucks at auction
Technology
Challenging freight's status quo
Kodak and Fujifilm were once household names but technology eventually pushed one of them almost entirely out of the market.
January 6, 2022
Getty Images 1225211412
Alternative power
The noise around truck weight
Having taken that diesel system weight out, there are a variety of estimates for what goes back in for a BEV based on many sources, often in disagreement.
December 7, 2021
trailers at a warehouse dock
Page 1 of 3
Next Page
Top Stories
TranService technician checking tire air pressure on a semi-truck
Service and repair
Maintaining proper tire pressure presents 'huge opportunity in today's volatile fuel market'
Aside from keeping an eye on the numbers at the pumps, tire experts advise keeping a close eye on tire pressure to help maximize fuel economy at a time when fuel prices have reached historic highs.
Truck on California highway
Home
Supreme Court will not hear trucking's AB 5 case, law will take effect for industry
trucks parked in a line
Used trucks
Growth of used truck values rival stock market from mid-2020 to mid-2022
Kenan Advantage Group tanker
Business
Kenan Advantage Group acquires Louisiana petrochem company
USA Truck semi on a bridge
Business
USA Truck acquired by DB Schenker