Cover Stories
2008 Fleet of the Year Awards
Fleet Owner salutes its Fleet of the Year Award winners — one each from the for-hire, private and vocational segments of trucking — selected by the editors in recognition of the innovative management techniques they have implemented...
Outlook '09 Tight squeeze
For truck fleets, it's the crunch time of all crunch times. Late last year, the recession that everyone in trucking had long known to be the true state...
OIL ADDITIVES: To pour or not
Snake oil. Mouse milk. Whiffle dust. Take your pick few products have earned such unflattering sobriquets as aftermarket motor-oil additives. And for...
TIRES: From the lab to the road
Beyond being oohed and aahed by tread design, there isn't much to get excited about a new tire ready for the road from just looking at it. But step into...
Smart choices for smart shoppers
No, this is not a year for breathtaking one-after-another rollouts of all-new trucks. Yes, there are some smokin' hot newcomers arriving for the new model...
One card united
The Transportation Security Administration's (TSA) program to have everyone, including truck drivers, who enters a port facility unescorted carry a government-issued...
Rethinking Fuel Economy
The calculus of fuel efficiency has changed. The new math fleets can employ in the face of rapidly mounting diesel prices may not come in handy forever...
BRAKES: LESSONS LEARNED IN EUROPE
Brake system suppliers here, via either European parents or partners, are engineering globally to serve customers locally...
THE IDEAL SHOP
Ask five fleet managers what the ideal maintenance shop would look like and you'll get five very different answers. What they'll have in common, however,...
The Fleet Owner 500
Our annual ranking of America's top private fleets has reached a milestone with this fifth edition. For the first time, the companies included in the...
OUTLOOK '08 Hard to Read
Truck fleet managers driving for success in 2008 will have to keep eyes and ears wide open to steer successfully through an economic landscape whose features...
2007 Fleet of the Year Awards
The envelopes, please. The FLEET OWNER Fleet of the Year Awards salute fleets-one each from the for-hire, private and vocational ranks of trucking FleetOwner...
Slipping ahead
Thanks to the millions of dollars and untold hours of effort on the part of an entire industry poured into creating oil-service category CJ-4 so that...
Tires: Closing the gap
Fleets have traditionally faced a tough choice when selecting tires: Go with one that produces fuel savings or one offering long tread life. They couldn't...
Fuel: Diesel & Beyond
The days are gone when Fill 'er up meant fuel up with good old #2 Diesel and be on your way . Already, some fleets are running on once-exotic fuels like...
Handle with Care 2008 New Models
Despite the wholesale engineering effort required to fit new EPA 07-compliant diesel engines into heavy-, medium-, and light-duty chassis this year and...
