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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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00:03:05

HDT Talks Trucking Season 5 Trailer

HDT Talks Trucking ·

2021/01/04

Season 5 of HDT Talks Trucking delves into a couple of current industry concerns, insurance costs and cybersecurity. Andrew Ladebauche and Brian Runnels of Reliance Partners shed some light on why truck insurance is so pricey. Kevin Linardic, the Chief Technology Officer at Carrier Logistics Incorporated talks about the need to lock down your data. HDT's editorial team, Deb Lockridge, David Cullen and Jack Roberts, looks back at the year we'd all like to forget, and forward to what we can expect

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00:44:08

On the Road to Smarter Smart Trailers

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2020/12/15

HDT Talks Trucking Special Report: Smart Trailers Smart Trailers are upending how truck fleets do business. These formerly brainless boxes are now providing insights and intelligence to fleets that help improve efficiency and productivity while making fleets proactive rather than reactive. Paul Menig of Business Accelerants discusses where this technology can take us, and what we'll need to do to get there. Business Accelerants Great Dane Fleet Pulse Phillips Connect Technologies Peterson Pulse Road

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00:44:27

Everything You Need to Know about Hydrogen Fuel Cells

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2020/11/13

HDT Talks Trucking Special Report: Hydrogen Fuel Cells. Hydrogen fuel cells' place in the heavy-duty trucking market is not well understood. Many see fuel cells and batteries as competitors. Loop Energy's Ben Nyland sees them as complimentary rather than competitive. Loop Energy is a new name to North American ears, but the company has been developing its fuel cell technology for the past two decades. It's currently a significant player in the European and Chinese markets, and it now has wheels on

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00:40:25

The Need for Sleep

HDT Talks Trucking ·

2020/11/02

Truck drivers' lifestyles and work environments don't always compliment their need for restful and restorative sleep. In an industry where much of the focus on sleep and fatigue is related to compliance, sometimes the need for proper sleep takes a back seat to the rules. This episode is about the importance of sleep. Sleep specialist and best-selling author, Dr. Chris Winter, explains why we need sleep, and what happens when you don't get enough. Dr. Winter offers some tips you can use to ensure you

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00:39:19

HDT's Alternative Fuel Overview

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2020/10/20

Decades will pass before diesel disappears from our vocabulary. Despite what you may have read on the internet, no single alternative energy source will dominate the way diesel fuel has for generations. As we move closer to wide-scale adoption of alternative fuels, it's becoming clear that trucks will need a little bit of everything to keep all its wheels turning as greenly as possible. Join Deborah Lockridge and Jim Park as they explore the pros and cons associated with three of today's most

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00:38:41

What Penske Has Learned About Electric Trucks, So Far

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2020/10/16

We know there will be challenges integrating electric trucks into traditional fleets, but until recently we haven't had many real-world examples from which to learn. Penske Truck Leasing has had a trial and evaluation project underway in southern California since 2017. They are trying to understand everything that would go right and everything that could go wrong. From dealing with the utility companies, to planning the layout of the yard and coaxing drivers to get the best battery performance, they

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00:36:46

Yes Virginia, Diesel Does Have a Future

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2020/10/15

Rumors surrounding the death of diesel are, as Mark Twain once said, greatly exaggerated. While some people can't wait for the last puff of smoke from an internal combustion engine, Allen Schaeffer isn't among them. He's the head of the Diesel Technology Forum, and one of diesel's greatest proponents. If you're worried about the sustained attacks on trucking's fuel of choice, Allen Schaeffer explains why diesel engines aren't going anywhere anytime soon. And if you think diesel is dead, or even on

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00:33:38

Renewable Natural Gas, the Energy Source Nobody's...

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2020/10/15

The search for cleaner energy sources for transportation is taking trucking in some interesting directions, but one source is often overlooked or even dismissed: renewable natural gas. RNG is methane gas produced by decomposing organic matter from sources such as landfills, dairy farms, and wastewater treatment plants. It can be economically collected and used to power trucks. It's already a source of fuel for many refuse collection fleets. Hugh Donnell of Cummins Westport, maker of the engines that

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00:38:29

What Can we Learn from Truck Crash Investigations?

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2020/10/15

Truck accidents usually bring tragic results, but some good can come from the follow up investigation. The National Transportation Safety Board doesn't investigate every truck crash, but digs deep into some for insight that could help prevent future crashes of a similar nature. Robert Molloy, a transportation research analyst and the director of the Office of Highway Safety at NTSB explains why it investigates certain crashes, and shares some of the conclusions drawn from two specific truck

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00:04:16

HDT Talks Trucking Season 4 Trailer

HDT Talks Trucking ·

2020/10/07

Season 4 rounds out our first year of podcasts, and what an interesting year it's been. This season we look at the future of fuel, including battery electric and renewable natural gas, and our tried-and-true diesel engines. We also have one special episode that's bound to put you to sleep. Our guest list includes Alan Schaeffer of the Diesel Technology Forum, Hugh Donnell of Cummins Westport, Paul Rosa of Penske Truck Leasing, and Rob Molloy of the National Transportation Safety Board. And HDT

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00:36:25

Cops & Robots: How Do We Enforce Robotic Trucks?

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2020/10/07

AUTONOMOUS TRUCKS SPECIAL REPORT: There are only a few dozen autonomous trucks on America's highways today, but the Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance is already thinking about how to police them. They aren't above the law. It's up to people like our guest, Will Schaefer, the Director of Safety Programs at CVSA, to figure out how trucking's safety rules can be applied to trucks that have no drivers. How will police officers pull over trucks that they can't communicate with directly? Can you charge a

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00:31:12

Are Autonomous Truck Ready for the Road?

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2020/09/08

AUTONOMOUS TRUCKS SPECIAL REPORT: Mary “Missy” Cummings calls herself a techno-realist. By day, she's a professor at Duke University and the director of Duke's Humans and Autonomy lab. Her day-to-day work is in artificial intelligence and robotics, and she’s quite skeptical about some of claims of autonomous driving’s current practitioners. Although she says she's 100% behind robotic trucks in the long term, she says the hype surrounding autonomous cars and trucks has pushed far beyond what the

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00:30:24

Robotic Trucking, the Waymo Way

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2020/09/08

AUTONOMOUS TRUCKS SPECIAL REPORT: Vijaysai (Vijay) Patnaik helped start and is now the Product Lead for Waymo’s self-driving trucks program. He says he’s confident the company will be able to safely and responsibly deploy this technology on public roads. Since Waymo began work on autonomous cars more than a decade ago, the company’s cars and trucks have logged more than 20 million real-world miles plus 15 billion more miles in computer simulations. Vijay explains some of the intricacies of the

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00:32:17

Keeping Drivers Healthier and Happier During the...

HDT Talks Trucking ·

2020/07/29

Staying healthy while living in a truck is a tough thing to do at the best of times. Staying healthy and positive becomes doubly difficult living under the stress of a pandemic. In this COVID-19 Special Report, trainer, nutritionist and holistic health coach Sergio Rojas shares some great ideas on how to up your wellness game. He has worked with celebrities and professional sports teams like the Chicago Bulls. Today, he is HDT's Health and Wellness columnist and was previously the Director of

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00:33:25

Truck Safety’s Most Wanted

HDT Talks Trucking ·

2020/07/17

What are the most important truck safety improvements in the eyes of the folks who investigate transportation accidents? The National Transportation Safety Board's 2019-2020 Most Wanted List of Transportation Safety Improvements offers 268 recommendations for improving transportation safety. The list includes identifying and treating truck drivers who may be at high risk for obstructive sleep apnea, and requiring forward collision warning and/or avoidance systems on all highway vehicles – including

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00:34:15

How to Improve Driver Retention

HDT Talks Trucking ·

2020/07/17

Driver turnover is a costly problem, but it's doubly hard to swallow when you already have good drivers, but you can hang onto them. Jim Park's guests in this episode, Jane Jazrawy of CarriersEdge along with Brad Fulton and Allyson Smith both of Stay Metrics, offer some tips that can help solve your retention problems. Driver Satisfaction Survey Best Fleets to Drive For Follow HDT on social media: Twitter Facebook LinkedIn

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00:32:27

Meet HDT's 2020 Truck Fleet Innovators, Part 1

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2020/07/17

What do maintenance data, safety technology, and more efficient pup trailers have in common? They’re all tactics taken by HDT’s 2020 Truck Fleet Innovators. Heavy Duty Trucking has presented its Innovator awards annually since 2006. They recognize fleet executives for their leadership role in fostering innovation in their companies and the industry. The hunt for the winners of this year's award, sponsored by ConMet, led us to Doug Lloyd, director of maintenance, Averitt Express of Cookeville,

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00:34:59

Could Autonomous Trucks Still be Decades Away?

HDT Talks Trucking ·

2020/07/17

Stefan Seltz-Axmacher created and ran Starsky Robotics, billed as the first venture to operate a truly driverless truck on a public highway. The company started in 2015 but closed its doors five years later, when, as he put it, the downpour of investor interest became a drizzle. He says investors were not prepared to fund the “last mile” of the project – honing and perfecting the artificial intelligence so that it performed flawlessly 100% of the time, a task that may have taken years. Will other

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00:24:52

Meet HDT's 2020 Fleet Innovators, Part 2

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2020/07/17

Innovation comes in all shapes and sizes, from listening to your employees for the little tweaks that make their workdays more productive, to be a test fleet for new logistics systems and autonomous platoons, to leading a digital transformation at one of the country’s biggest truckload carriers. Heavy Duty Trucking's Truck Fleet Innovator awards, presented annually since 2006 and sponsored this year by ConMet, recognize fleet executives for their leadership role in fostering innovation in their

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00:35:32

The Future of Fuel Economy

HDT Talks Trucking ·

2020/07/17

Sometime later this year the first of the GHG 2021 trucks will hit dealer lots. To meet the first round of GHG reduction targets, these trucks will be fitted mostly with existing fuel-saving technology; aero devices, low-rolling resistance tires, etc. To meet the 2024 and 2027 targets, truck makers may need to get a bit more aggressive in their use of advanced technologies. HDT's Jim Park and Mike Roeth of the North American Council for Freight Efficiency discuss how truck and engine makers will

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