December 2024

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Rohlwing: Essential inspections ensure safety

Kevin Rohlwing

Jan. 9, 2025

Your drivers don't have to be experts to find a fault that could save your fleet—but they have to look.

Christenson Transportation provides 48-state service hauling high-value, high-risk, and time-sensitive freight. It also operates a regional fleet in the southeast.

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Operations

How this fleet is using old lessons to meet modern challenges

Seth Skydel

Jan. 2, 2025

For 40 years, Christenson Transportation has succeeded by sticking to its principles and focusing on its strengths.

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Equipment

Product Spotlight: Diesel additives for 2025

Jenna Hume

Dec. 23, 2024

A look at 10 products fueling the trucking industry.

As the fleets continue to navigate an evolving economic and regulatory landscape, we present the latest trends, challenges, and opportunities based on data gathered by FleetOwner and several industry organizations. Trucking By the Numbers 2024 shines a light on the top concerns, economic factors, advancements, and more data that tells the trucking story in charts and figures.

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Research

Trucking By the Numbers 2024

Josh Fisher

Dec. 16, 2024

As fleets navigate a changing economic and regulatory landscape, FleetOwner presents the latest trends and challenges based on industry data. Trucking By the Numbers highlights...

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Equipment

To prebuy or not to prebuy. That is the big trucking question.

Jim Park

Dec. 13, 2024

Anticipated price hikes on new trucks could cripple many small fleets. Now might be a better time to buy, but interest rates and freight rates are not conducive to profitability...

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Lane Shift Ahead

What’s your trucking AIQ?

Josh Fisher

Dec. 12, 2024

Is 2025 the year AI and automation finally take over trucking? (Hint: Not quite. But here's why you should be getting ready for it.)

With trucking technology companies and TMS providers launching a new AI-driven or AI-focused product nearly every week, it's safe to say AI is a major tech trend in the trucking industry.

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Telematics

How trucking tech companies leverage AI

Jade Brasher

Dec. 10, 2024

TMS and telematics providers are using artificial intelligence to improve fleets' operational efficiencies, improve safety, and more.

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IdeaXchange

Heller: Another year ends with unanswered personal conveyance questions

David Heller

Dec. 10, 2024

Drivers deserve a federal definition of personal conveyance.

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Technology

How fleets are leveraging AI to boost operations

Jade Brasher

Dec. 4, 2024

Early-adopting fleets use artificial intelligence technology for load planning, dispatch, maintenance, workflows, and customer communication. There are big and small steps to ...