Fleet Management: Features
The slow dance of the three trucks
The U.S. government in 2007 put in place the Cross-Border Trucking Demonstration Project. The pilot program was eventually killed this March when Congress...
Border skirmish simmers
It all seemed to be a done deal. But the cross-border trucking program established by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) back in September 2007 got a fiscal stake driven through its heart in early March of this year via an addendum authored by Sen. Byron Dorgan (D-ND) to an appropriations bill...
Tale of two countries: Mexico trucking
Mexico. Trucking. Utter those two words together and most U.S. truckers will instantly think of the political football that's been kicked around for years...
Lifting the load: Truck weight limits
Weight is a very big deal to Jason Hancock. As president of Hancock Petroleum a third-generation, family-owned fuel hauler he says his company's tractor-trailers...
Rethinking the shop
Quality and quantity should never be mutually exclusive in the maintenance shop. Just as fleet owners ignore either or both at great peril, they can't...
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...
Creating a Culture of Safety
Fleet safety professionals think about safety, about managing risk all day, every day. It is their job. The best of the best, however, also work tirelessly...
Making bigger better
The way Tim Clinton sees it, if federal size and weight limits for commercial trucks increase, insurance rates are going to increase as well pretty much...
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...
BROKERING FREIGHT: Two sides of the coin
The middlemen who match shipments with trucks have been seeing their ranks swell of late, thanks in large part to web-based software programs that have...
SCR or EGR?
There's a lot to like and a lot to dislike about both EGR and SCR technologies, says Dr. Stephen Ciatti, principal mechanical engineer for Argonne National...
Graphics Gone Wild
Vehicle graphics designers are always looking for new and exciting ways to help companies extend consumer awareness of their brands and services through...
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...
SMALL TRUCKS, BIG JOB
Bigger engines cranking out more horsepower and low-end torque remain the norm for pickups and vans...
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,...
