Mountain Driving 101: Understanding signs, and using an AMT

Some grades have signs that display a profile of the hill; some signage offers ambiguous warnings like, “Use Lower Gear” or “Slow Down,” but lower than what or how…

Mountain Driving 101: Match the truck gear and speed to the grade

Mountain driving instructor Andy Roberts and equipment editor Jim Park talk their way through a downhill descent, explaining gear selection, desired road speed. They make two trips down…

Preparing your fleet for the Canadian ELD Mandate

The June 2021 deadline is approaching fast, and carriers need to get ready. How should you prepare to effectively comply with the Canadian ELD rules? What are the steps…

Focus On: Mack MD Series

Mack Trucks’ new MD Series is the company’s first medium-duty offering since 2003. It was introduced in January 2020, and then the pandemic hit. That delayed the start of…

Operation Safe Driver Week with Christopher Turner, CVSA

Operation Safe Driver Week, an annual initiative led by the Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance, begins July 12. And just like last year, enforcement officers will place a…

Focus On: Mack Electric LR

Early in 2020, Mack Trucks handed the keys to its first fully electric refuse truck to the New York City Department of Sanitation. The LR Electric is North…

The Essentials: #ThankATrucker

Essential. It’s the word people have come to use when describing truck drivers — the men and women who remain on the job during these days of Covid-19.

Focus On: Mitsubishi Fuso eCanter

There are only a few hundred Mitsubishi Fuso eCanters on the planet, but there were two of them at the 2020 Work Truck Show in Indianapolis this year. Equipment…

Focus On: Stoneridge swaps mirrors for monitors

From the driver's perspective, Stoneridge's MirrorEye system is simple enough, but there's a lot going on in the background of this technology designed to replace traditional mirrors.

19.12 | 2020 Freight Volume Forecast

19.11 | 2019 Freight Volume Realities

19.10 | Class 8 Buying Intentions

19.9 | What do we know about owner-operators?

19.8 | What do we know about private fleets?

‘Where are the regulators?’

Stephen Laskowski, the CEO of the Canadian Trucking Alliance, is clearly frustrated by trucking companies that are skirting the rules to gain a business advantage. "Where are the regulators?" he asked during a conversation at the recent Surface Transportation Summit. He also questions why major shippers -- including Fortune 500 companies -- are not aligning their transportation choices with corporate mission statements.