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,...
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...
Hard knocks, high performance
When Ferrara Bros. Building Materials Corp. needed some new mixer trucks last year, Bob Gartman, vp-maintenance, knew some changes needed to be made to...
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...
Conway Trucking
No standing is one rule successful fleets adhere to religiously. Accepting how the less-than-truckload (LTL) landscape has shifted, this year Con-Way...
Shaw Industries
Being at the top of one's game doesn't preclude striving for even greater performance. There's no disputing Shaw Industries' private fleet operation is...
From the ground up
J.R. Simplot, founder of J.R. Simplot Company, went into business for himself in the rural community of Declo, ID, at the age of 14. It was 1923. The...
Rodman Companies
A major site-development contractor in Texas, the Rodman Companies knows it can't succeed in the dirt without reliable, cost-effective construction equipment...
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...
Hybrids for the long haul
For Landon Sproull, chief engineer at Peterbilt Motors Co., it's no accident that the OEM's new Class 8 diesel-electric hybrid tractor is painted green,...
