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HDT Talks Trucking

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Go behind the scenes with the industry’s most seasoned trucking reporters. Heavy Duty Trucking’s editorial team uses decades of experience to bring you expert insights and interview industry professionals to discuss the latest news, trends, and technology that will help you run your fleet more efficiently, safely, and profitably.

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00:25:57

The Diesel Engine at 125 Years: Still Going Strong...

HDT Talks Trucking ·

2022/04/29

The first functional diesel engine was tested in 1897, making the “heat engine” 125 years old this year. Will the diesel see 150 years of service? Allen Schaeffer, the executive director of the Diesel Technology Forum joined HDT’s Jim Park on Rudolph Diesel’s 164th birthday with a tribute to the engine’s inventor and look forward at its future. 🏫 Resources Diesel Technology Forum DTF: Nearer to Zero - The Big Picture on EPA’s Latest Proposed Emissions Regs Rudolph Diesel’s Enduring Invention 🚨

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00:12:54

Top Trucking News Stories of March 2022

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2022/04/12

Get updates and insights on the top trucking news from March 2022 with HDT Editor in Chief Deborah Lockridge and Managing Editor Vesna Brajkovic on this episode of HDT Talks Trucking. This episode is sponsored by: Circle K Pro Learn more about the Circle K Fleet Card. Clarience Technologies Learn more about Clarience Technologies. 🎙 Today's topics include: Reinstated Independent Contractor Definition Navistar’s New San Antonio Plant Fuel Prices And more 🚨Stay up to date on the latest

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00:25:33

Get Ready for Wireless Electronic Truck Inspections

HDT Talks Trucking ·

2022/03/30

Wireless electronic truck inspections could revolutionize the harvesting of data from commercial vehicles. Inspections will be faster and more comprehensive, allowing far more inspections to be conducted every day. But there’s infrastructure to consider, and cost, and fleet sensitivity to sharing proprietary data. On this episode of HDT Leadership Insights, Steve Vaughn of PrePass explains how these inspections would be carried out, and the implications for industry. 🏫 Resources Pre-Pass CVSA Adds

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00:10:46

Smart Fuel-Buying Tips for Fleets

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2022/03/28

This episode is sponsored by Circle K. Learn more about the Circle K Fleet Card. With diesel prices at or near record highs, HDT Talks Trucking shares tips from fuel-buying expert Glen Sokolis about how fleets can savemoney beyond better fuel mileage. Glen Sokolis is CEO of Sokolis Group, a company he founded nearly 20 years ago to help fleets save money on fuel. Editor in Chief Deborah Lockridge talks to Glen about why oil and fuel prices have spiked and what fleets can do about it short- and

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00:33:34

Standardizing Emerging TRU Technologies

HDT Talks Trucking ·

2022/03/17

The electrification of transport refrigeration equipment is evolving but charging and power sharing must be standardized before adoption occurs at scale. Host Jim Park and Matt Srnec, Thermo King’s lead electrical system engineer discuss the benefits and barriers to standardizing electric TRU technology. Fleets looking toward investing in electric TRUs and e-PTO will gain much from Matt’s insight. This episode of HDT Leadership Insights is sponsored by and produced in partnership with Thermo

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00:09:54

Top Trucking News Stories of February 2022

HDT Talks Trucking ·

2022/03/15

Get updates and insights on the top trucking news from February 2022 with HDT Editor in Chief Deborah Lockridge and Managing Editor Vesna Brajkovic on this episode of HDT Talks Trucking. This episode is sponsored by Circle K Pro. Learn more about the Circle K Fleet Card. 🎙 Today's topics include: Cummins and the Road to Zero Emissions How Will Russia-Ukraine Conflict Affect You? CVSA's Inspection Blitz And more 🚨Stay up to date on the latest industry news from HDT: ➡ truckinginfo.com 📰

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00:20:05

Are ELDs Responsible for Higher Crash Rates and More...

HDT Talks Trucking ·

2022/02/23

A study published late in 2021 by the Supply Chain Management Research Center at the University of Arkansas is casting doubt on the safety benefits of ELDs. Researchers found that crash rates and incidents of unsafe driving among small fleets and owner-operators increased relative to large fleets following ELD implementation in December 2017. On this episode of HDT Talks Trucking, one of the study’s coauthors, Andrew Balthrop of the Sam M. Walton College of Business, explains his findings. This

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00:09:14

Top Trucking News Stories of January 2022

HDT Talks Trucking ·

2022/02/18

Get updates and insights on the top trucking news from January 2022 with HDT Editor in Chief Deborah Lockridge and Managing Editor Vesna Brajkovic on this episode of HDT Talks Trucking. This episode is sponsored by Circle K. Learn more about the Circle K Fleet Card. 🎙 Today's topics include: Controversy Over COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates New FMCSA Leadership Werner Getting Natural Gas, Hydrogen Engines and more! 📰 Sign up for the HDT newsletter! 🤝 Follow and connect with HDT on social

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00:30:43

How Can We Prevent Another Lakewood Colorado Crash?

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2022/01/26

The driver in the Lakewood, Colo. crash, Rogel Aguilera-Mederos, paid a stiff price for his actions on the afternoon of April 25, 2019. It would be easy to argue that the crash was entirely his fault, but my guest, Accident Plan founder and CEO, Brendan Dawson, says the carrier and the broker he was working for at the time bear some responsibility for not ensuring he was trained to drive in mountainous terrain. Would training have prevented that crash? Could more comprehensive training prevent other

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00:34:09

The Pathway to TRU Electrification

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2022/01/20

Battery size and weight are significant barriers to developing electric power systems for mobile refrigeration units. Integration of the charging systems and AC/DC converters is another challenge for system developers. As the strategic insights leader at Thermo King, Paul Kroes is responsible for finding solutions to these problems. In this episode of Leadership Insights, Paul discusses the challenges and opportunities that lay ahead in developing electric transportation refrigeration units. 💡

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00:13:37

Top Trucking News Stories of December 2021

HDT Talks Trucking ·

2022/01/11

Get updates and insights on the top trucking news from December 2021 with HDT Editor in Chief Deborah Lockridge and Managing Editor Vesna Brajkovic on this episode of HDT Talks Trucking. This episode is sponsored by Circle K. Learn more about the Circle K Fleet Card. 🎙 Today's topics include: Will a truck driver serve a 110-year sentence for a fatal crash? The latest on Nikola’s battery-electric and fuel-cell-electric trucks. What the Biden administration is doing about the truck driver

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00:18:58

Inside a High School Truck Driver Training Program

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2021/11/09

With the industry facing a shortage of qualified drivers, fleet managers are faced with the challenge of both retaining CDL drivers, as well as attracting new ones to their operations. Is one answer to the driver shortage introducing young people to trucking and prepping high schoolers to obtain their CDL early on? In this special report, hear from Dave Dein, the mastermind behind one of that nation’s first high school truck driver programs and a co-founder of the Next Generation Trucking

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00:31:58

Is the Real World Ready for Driverless Trucks?

HDT Talks Trucking ·

2021/11/09

There are currently, dozens of driverless trucks operating on interstate highways (with safety drivers) mixing and mingling with humanized cars and trucks. The technology obviously works. As they log more and more miles, we are hearing about few reported incidents of automation gone wrong. Does that mean they are ready for prime time? Christopher Hart doesn’t think so. He’s a former chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board, and he as been studying and observing automation in

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00:24:07

Inspections and Maintenance for Autonomous Trucks

HDT Talks Trucking ·

2021/11/09

Ryder will soon be managing maintenance services for several fleets of autonomous vehicles. The company will be doing regular maintenance on the trucks as well as servicing the autonomous hardware and performing pre- and post-trip inspections. On this episode of HDT Talks Trucking, Ryder’s director of new product strategy, Mike Plasencia, explains what it takes to keep driverless trucks running. Ryder System Embark, Ryder Partner on Nationwide Autonomous Fleet Network TuSimple to Use Ryder

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00:25:24

Driving into the 3G Sunset

HDT Talks Trucking ·

2021/10/26

Remember the Y2K scare? At the time, many people worried airplanes would fall from the sky and every bit of digital data ever collected would simply vanish. As it happened, very little changed that winter night January 31, 1999. Come the spring of 2022, however, when some wireless service providers start turning off their 3G networks, some older technology will quit working. Our guest, Michael Bloom, vice president of product and marketing for video and telematics provider, SmartWitness, explains

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00:20:14

Is Your Fleet Ready for FA-4 Oil?

HDT Talks Trucking ·

2021/10/26

The FA-4 category oils have been available for almost five years now, but market penetration remains light. Despite the fuel saving benefits inherent to these lighter viscosity oils, fleets are being cautions about using it – and for a number of good reasons. In some cases, FA-4 is only recommended for engines from 2017 and newer. Certain restrictions may be keeping fleets from embracing the newest API oil category. On this episode, Tom Gauerke, national fleet account manager at Chevron Global

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00:35:48

How to Build an Electric Medium-duty Fleet

HDT Talks Trucking ·

2021/10/07

It has been said that as of today, more than 5 million trucks in North America could be converted from fossil-fuel power to electric. The sweeping simplicity of that statement, however, belies the complexity of actually making it happen. Jim Castalez, the chief technology officer and founder of Motive Power Systems has been electrifying Class 4-6 delivery vehicle fleets for 12 years now. With more than a million miles under his belt, he has a few insights on how fleets can successfully make the

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00:49:45

Is There a Better Way to Measure Fuel Economy?

HDT Talks Trucking ·

2021/10/07

How can fleets make informed decisions when buying fuel saving devices and technologies if they are looking at unreliable data? How often do we hear fleets say they automatically reduce vendor’s fuel-saving estimates by half? Our guest says he has the answer to that problem. Daryl Bear is the lead engineer & chief operating officer of Mesilla Valley Transportation Solutions. He’s a mechanical engineer with 20 years’ experience in motorsports and automotive research and development. From his

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00:21:14

Meet HDT's Managing Editor, Vesna Brajkovic

HDT Talks Trucking ·

2021/09/28

Meet the newest member of HDT’s editorial team, managing editor, Vesna Brajkovic. Managing editors are to magazines what operations managers are to truck fleets. They tend to the day-to-day details of running a magazine and a website and are responsible for keeping everything on the rails. On this episode of HDT Talks Trucking, Vesna talks about what she has learned about trucking since she started here in February, and shares a little of her personal side, discussing her love for soccer, golf,

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00:52:26

The Secret Life of Truckstops

HDT Talks Trucking ·

2021/09/05

Truckstops and trucking are very much dependent on one another, yet the relationship isn’t always mutually beneficial. Whether it’s fuel prices, restaurant prices or the debate over paid parking, trucking and truckstops don’t always see eye to eye. In this episode of HDT Talks Trucking, truckstop business consultant, Don Baglien -- aka That Truckstop Guy -- pulls back the curtain and shares what it’s like on his side of the doors that never close. Don and host, Jim Park discuss the challenges of

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