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Hurricane season hits close to home the same day Japan is slammed by a major typhoon
The rain came today—and it kept coming courtesy of Tropical Storm Gordon. Having lived in Northwest Florida for over 20 years, I’ve become accustomed to hurricane season and the fury it can bring. We didn’t get hit very badly today in Panama City. Some minor wind and a lot of rain coupled with some coastal […]
September 4, 2018
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Trucking’s teen driver dilemma: Industry must proceed with caution on the movement for under-21 truckers
By Jeff Crissey, editor of Commercial Carrier Journal, a partner publication of Hard Working Trucks. Age is just a number, so the saying goes. While that may be true for relationships, it may not apply to truck driving. The U.S. Senate renewed the debate over the appropriate age for interstate commercial truck drivers last month […]
September 2, 2018
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No country for old batteries
The Tesla Semi showed up at JB Hunt’s headquarters in Arkansas on Friday and created quite a stir. Photos on Twitter showed people lined up to take a closer look at the all-electric truck that’s continued to generate headlines all over the world. Tesla’s community forum was filled with praise for the Semi. One devoted […]
August 27, 2018
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One of the best truck pranks ever & a crazy truck riding teen begging to be arrested
In my late teens I drove a Chevy lift truck for an office machine company in Georgia. I know of only one time when I didn’t know exactly what was going on at the back end of that truck—or at least I’m hoping that’s the case. After delivering and helping to set up a copy […]
August 20, 2018
Perspectives
Apology issued for Chicago bait truck
Score one for justice? Really? Sting operations in Chicago designed to curtail rising cargo thefts took a big hit recently as Norfolk Southern Railway buckled under pressure, apologized for leading an undercover bait truck operation and vowed never to use the same tactic again. That’s great news for cargo thieves including three men who were […]
August 19, 2018
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Cargo theft sting in Chicago angers ‘activists’
While sting operations in law enforcement are nothing new, video of an apparent bait truck loaded with brand new Nike shoes and parked in a Chicago neighborhood has gone viral after residents there confronted police and complained about what they say are unfair tactics. Okay, if a food truck was left where people were starving, […]
August 8, 2018
Perspectives
Autonomous vehicles crash together in California
In a strange twist of fate bordering on the ironic, an autonomous vehicle recently collided with another autonomous vehicle while traveling the streets of San Francisco. No matter. AV tech still came out ahead according to the autonomous vehicle crash report provided by the California Department of Motor Vehicles. While both Chevrolet Bolts involved in […]
July 29, 2018
Perspectives
Tragic lesson: Landscape company owner arrested for killing two women with errant boulder
Like it or not, the trucking industry came under fire following the viral news story of a woman and her adult daughter being crushed to death by a boulder that had fallen off a landscape truck and demolished their car in Rosemount, Minnesota. The man driving the truck, 33-year-old Czeck Services owner Joseph Czeck, was […]
July 15, 2018
Perspectives
Headline heatwave: The cost of exposing P&D drivers to the elements
Is 132 degrees too hot for a driver? It’s safe to assume that most of us would agree that temperatures that high inside a vehicle are too hot for man or beast. But it’s possible that the temperature inside 63-year-old Peggy Frank’s mail truck reached that Death Valley-like high when she was found dead last […]
July 11, 2018
Perspectives
You don’t have to buy an electric truck to drive an electrified one
The electrification of trucking may “the next big thing” but the electrification of the truck itself isn’t an entirely new concept. The differentiator of the two discussions is a big one. The electrification of trucking centers on removing a traditional driveline and replacing it with a number of electric drive motors. On-board electrification is just removing mechanically […]
July 5, 2018
Perspectives
There’s more to green transportation than just electric trucks
Electric mobility may go a long way in slashing fuel costs, but fleets are equally drawn to the technology over the prospect of reducing their carbon footprint. Some of us aren’t comfortable riding on the bleeding edge of new tech, preferring to let the early adopters work out the kinks and bugs. However, there are […]
June 11, 2018
Perspectives
Shotgun wedding: California’s new solar panel mandate and the EV revolution
Ready or not, here they come… EV and solar panel businesses in California are about to converge in a real big way. First, what do the two industries have in common? Batteries—and lots of them. I bring this up in light of the fact that California is expected this Wednesday to become the first state […]
May 7, 2018
Perspectives
EV scores points at ACT, but there’s still plenty of work to be done
This year at ACT Expo I was happy to see that electric truck startup Thor brought along an electric 1917 Walker truck. The old truck and others like it are not only fascinating from a technological standpoint, they also serve as great reminders of how competitive and challenging it is to create a lasting vehicle […]
May 3, 2018
Perspectives
Trump waiver for E15 would mean more cost, more challenges for fleets
There’s a troubling quote attributed to Monte Shaw, the executive director of the Iowa Renewable Fuels Association, concerning President Trump’s possible move to bump up the nation’s ethanol mix in gas this summer from 10 to 15 percent. “We need some good news out here,” Shaw recently told Reuters concerning a possible trade war with […]
April 20, 2018
Perspectives
Smoke signals from my old F-150
My 1997 F-150 shown above It all started with white smoke pouring out of my F-150’s exhaust pipe. The longer the truck would sit between trips, the more smoke I’d see on start-up. Granted, the 4.2-liter V6 in this ’97 SuperCab had roughly 150,000 miles on it, but I’d never seen white smoke billowing out […]
April 12, 2018
Perspectives
More tough Tesla headlines this week, including troubling video recreations of fatal Model X crash
From headlines questioning the dependability of its AutoPilot system, to a fire that broke out today at its Fremont factory location, to jabs from its Semi competitor Nikola, Tesla has had a pretty rough week. First some headlines… Ars Technica: There’s growing evidence Tesla’s Autopilot handles lane dividers poorly Electrek: Tesla Autopilot confuses markings toward […]
April 5, 2018
Perspectives
Another Tesla fatality invites another investigation and company devaluation
It’s hard to know exactly where to start. It’s like watching parts fly off a moving train and wondering if it’s going to stay on the tracks. But I’m also thinking of the late eccentric billionaire Howard Hughes and the Spruce Goose. There was so much publicity and admiration for this unrelenting genius who couldn’t […]
March 29, 2018
Perspectives
A journey of 1,000 autonomous trucks begins with 7 miles
Two months ago, in the middle-of-nowhere, Fla., a person placed a tractor in drive, brought it up to speed and centered the truck in its lane. Big deal, right? That happens millions of times every day. But the driver of this truck in particular was about 100 miles away from his tractor. The truck only […]
March 13, 2018
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