Podcasts by HDT Talks Trucking

Behind the News: A New Type of Engine? from 2022-05-10T18:31:38

Get insights behind the top trucking news from April 2022 with HDT Editor in Chief Deborah Lockridge, Managing Editor Vesna Brajkovic and Equipment Editor Jim Park on this episode of HDT Talks T...

The Diesel Engine at 125 Years: Still Going Strong and Getting Even Cleaner from 2022-04-29T19:28:56

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 ...

Top Trucking News Stories of March 2022 from 2022-04-12T20:35:41

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.

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Get Ready for Wireless Electronic Truck Inspections from 2022-03-30T19:25:07

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 ...

Smart Fuel-Buying Tips for Fleets from 2022-03-28T16:31:13

With diesel prices at or near record highs, HDT Talks Trucking shares tips from fuel-buying expert Glen Sokolis about how fleets can save money beyond better fuel mileage.

Standardizing Emerging TRU Technologies from 2022-03-17T18:14:38

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 Kin...

HDT Leadership Insights featuring Thermo King, Part 2: Standardizing Emerging TRU Technologies from 2022-03-17T18:14:38

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 Kin...

Top Trucking News Stories of February 2022 from 2022-03-15T15:44:42

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.

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Are ELDs Responsible for Higher Crash Rates and More Risky Driving? from 2022-02-23T16:42:11

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 an...

Top Trucking News Stories of January 2022 from 2022-02-18T14:56:46

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.

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How Can We Prevent Another Lakewood Colorado Crash? from 2022-01-26T22:35:58

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 ...

Leadership Insights feat. Thermo King: The Pathway to TRU Electrification from 2022-01-20T18:10:12

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 challeng...

The Pathway to TRU Electrification from 2022-01-20T18:10:12

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 challeng...

Top Trucking News Stories of December 2021 from 2022-01-11T21:13:44

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.  &...

Inside a High School Truck Driver Training Program from 2021-11-09T22:33:16

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 an...

Is the Real World Ready for Driverless Trucks? from 2021-11-09T22:26:55

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 the...

Inspections and Maintenance for Autonomous Trucks from 2021-11-09T22:19:11

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 hardwa...

Driving into the 3G Sunset from 2021-10-26T05:19:02

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 t...

Is Your Fleet Ready for FA-4 Oil? from 2021-10-26T05:10:08

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 ...

Is Your Fleet for Ready for FA-4 Oil? from 2021-10-26T05:10:08

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 ...

How to Build an Electric Medium-duty Fleet from 2021-10-07T21:15:10

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 t...

Is There a Better Way to Measure Fuel Economy? from 2021-10-07T21:06:06

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...

Meet HDT's Managing Editor, Vesna Brajkovic from 2021-09-28T04:20:18

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 deta...

The Secret Life of Truckstops from 2021-09-05T22:57:39

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...

Electric Trucks Are Producing Some Interesting Partnerships from 2021-07-24T03:36:52

With medium- and heavy-duty truck electrification, we’re seeing a unique alignment of traditional truck manufacturers, tier-1 suppliers and start-up companies simultaneously competing and collab...

Getting Back to the Basics on Electrical Maintenance from 2021-07-20T05:21:56

While the basic principles of Ohm’s Law haven’t changed, the architecture of a truck’s electrical system certainly has. Are fleets doing enough to keep their technicians ahead of the rapidly ste...

Learning to Master the Downsped Driveline from 2021-07-09T19:39:11

Cruising down the highway at 900 rpm takes a bit of getting used to. Some drivers don’t like the way the truck feels, while others can’t get used to the way it sounds. And there are some drivers...

GHG Phase 2 Will Change How We Build Diesel Engines from 2021-07-09T18:28:36

It’s going to take a lot more than better aerodynamics and low-rolling resistance tires to meet the EPA’s next round of emissions reductions for heavy trucks. Trucks from model-year 2021 are inc...

Volvo Trucks Sees Hydrogen Driving Fossil-free Trucking from 2021-05-14T03:37:42

Volvo Trucks has committed to decarbonizing its share of the road transport system by 2050 using hydrogen fuel cells alongside battery-electric vehicles and biofuel- or possibly hydrogen-powered...

Electric Trucks: The Road to Cost Parity with Diesel from 2021-04-30T14:56:18

The market for battery- or fuel-cell-electric trucks is still in its infancy. It could be another 10-15 years before production and deployment numbers achieve a critical mass where scale begins ...

Has FMCSA finally got hours-of-service right? from 2021-04-28T17:16:34

The most recent update to the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration's Hours of Service regulations went live September 29, 2020. They were two years in the making, and the changes came onl...

Carriers Need to Get Better at Self Defense from 2021-04-28T17:07:21

Trucking's response to a crisis often tends to be reactive and defensive. That can leave a carrier on its back-foot when trying to defend a claim in court. It's not that we're not good at defend...

Are Two AI Trucks Twice as Good as One? from 2021-04-03T18:20:03

Autonomous truck teaching and testing is in full swing now, with close to a dozen companies in the game right now. One company, Locomation, says it can commercialize the technology faster by let...

Aftertreatment Maintenance from A-Z from 2021-04-03T18:08:27

Aftertreatment systems remain the source of much confusion and frustration for fleets and drivers alike. In this episode we discuss some of the problems that arise from lack of maintenance and a...

HDT Talks Trucking Season 6 Trailer from 2021-04-03T17:57:23

Season 6 of HDT Talks Trucking digs into bunch of hot-button issues, from aftertreatment system maintenance -- a perennial headache for fleets, to managing litigation costs resulting from accide...

Will Self-driving Trucks Put Truck Drivers Out of Business? from 2021-03-17T07:04:55

HDT Talks Trucking Special Report: Self-driving trucks will obviously displace some drivers. The question everyone is asking is how many and when. The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration...

Leadership Insights: Turning Trends into Actions from 2021-02-23T20:43:36

From the latest in data intelligence to effectively using data to improve safety and operations, Dr. Ashim Bose, Omnitracs' chief data and AI officer, discusses how fleets can overcome the chall...

Leadership Insights: Efficiency, Productivity and Smaller Fleets Too from 2021-02-23T20:42:29

Data is the key to profitability. Omnitracs' chief data and AI officer, Dr. Ashim Bose, focuses on how operational data can improve efficiency and productivity. He also explains how smaller flee...

Leadership Insights: Taking Safety to the Edge from 2021-02-23T20:41:34

Data flows by the gigabyte from trucks today. Much of that data can help make your drivers safer and keep your drivers safe. From fatigue warnings and traffic alerts to weather and even Covid-19...

HDT Editorial Roundtable-Looking back at 2020 and ahead at 2021 from 2021-01-08T07:01:45

We assembled the editorial team for a look back at 2020 and a look ahead at 2021. Deborah Lockridge, David Cullen, Jack Roberts, and I offer our reflections on the year just passed and the year ...

Fuel Economy Testing Pioneers Chuck Blake and Bob Wessels from 2021-01-08T05:00

Chuck Blake and Bob Wessels hardly need an introduction, but for the record, Chuck was Detroit Diesel's senior technical support manager when he retired in 2018, and Bob was the assistant chief ...

Are You Worried About Cybersecurity? You Should Be. from 2021-01-08T05:00

The world is electronic now, which means there are doorways into our lives and our business that we'd prefer stayed closed. But as the recent Russian hack of the U.S. government shows, we can't ...

What Can Fleets do About the High Cost of Insurance? from 2021-01-08T05:00

We're facing what some have called a crisis with insurance costs right now. Premiums continue to escalate in lock step claims costs, from medical expenses to vehicle repair costs. The so-called ...

Meet Adam Lang, winner of HDT's Safety & Compliance Award for 2020 from 2021-01-08T05:00

Running a fleet's Human Resources and Safety & Compliance departments would be challenging at any point in time, but more so through a pandemic. Adam Lang, chief risk officer for Halvor Line...

HDT Talks Trucking Season 5 Trailer from 2021-01-04T19:31:01

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 w...

On the Road to Smarter Smart Trailers from 2020-12-15T05:39:43

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 t...

Everything You Need to Know about Hydrogen Fuel Cells from 2020-11-13T07:21:16

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. Loo...

The Need for Sleep from 2020-11-02T01:25:22

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 co...

HDT's Alternative Fuel Overview from 2020-10-20T03:09:53

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 gene...

What Penske Has Learned About Electric Trucks, So Far from 2020-10-16T05:52:17

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...

Yes Virginia, Diesel Does Have a Future from 2020-10-15T23:10:41

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 Schaef...

Renewable Natural Gas, the Energy Source Nobody's Talking About from 2020-10-15T21:23:29

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 me...

What Can we Learn from Truck Crash Investigations? from 2020-10-15T21:22:51

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 de...

HDT Talks Trucking Season 4 Trailer from 2020-10-07T16:04:12

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 t...

Cops & Robots: How Do We Enforce Robotic Trucks? from 2020-10-07T15:52:51

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 the...

Are Autonomous Truck Ready for the Road? from 2020-09-08T21:39:26

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-t...

Robotic Trucking, the Waymo Way from 2020-09-08T21:27:53

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 sa...

Keeping Drivers Healthier and Happier During the Pandemic from 2020-07-29T18:18:28

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...

Meet HDT's 2020 Fleet Innovators, Part 2 from 2020-07-17T16:00

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 autono...

How to Improve Driver Retention from 2020-07-17T16:00

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 Listen

Meet HDT's 2020 Truck Fleet Innovators, Part 1 from 2020-07-17T16:00

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...

Truck Safety’s Most Wanted from 2020-07-17T16:00

What are the most important truck safety improvements in the eyes of the folks who investigate transportation accidents? The National Tra...

The Future of Fuel Economy from 2020-07-17T16:00

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 tec...

Could Autonomous Trucks Still be Decades Away? from 2020-07-17T16:00

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...

Season Three Trailer from 2020-06-18T20:09:10

HDT Talks Trucking's third season casts an eye toward the future. We talk with Stefan Seltz-Axmacher, the CEO and co-founder of now-defunct driverless truck startup, Starsky Robotics, about the ...

Surviving COVID-19 from 2020-06-10T16:54:58

Kansas City-based team lease-operators Chanté and Chris Drew contracted COVID-19 in late March while on the road. For the next nine days, the trucking team made their way home, searching for dec...

Truck Driving During a Pandemic (Part I) from 2020-05-07T23:40:11

Meet seven drivers who live on the front line of the battle with COVID-19. They mix and mingle with shippers and receivers, other drivers at truck stops, and restaurant workers. They can't be ce...

Truck Driving During a Pandemic (Part II) from 2020-05-07T23:36:12

Part II continues the discussion with seven truck drivers who are out in the wild working during the pandemic. In this episode, they discuss the steps they take to stay COVID-free and talk about...

How Can Fleets Reduce Unscheduled Downtime? from 2020-03-31T22:35:35

Some fleets manage to do a very good job with certain maintenance tasks. That begs the question: if some fleets are so good at maintenance, why can't everyone else be that good too? In this epis...

Making Sense of All Those Economic Numbers from 2020-03-31T22:32:41

HDT editor-in-chief, Deborah Lockridge speaks with veteran trucking industry analyst and HDT columnist, Jeff Kauffman, who is also the managing director for Loop Capital Markets and the head of ...

Electric Trucks Might Not be as Easy as We First Thought from 2020-03-31T22:27:55

Vehicle electrification is probably the most profound change ever to hit transportation -- and the trucking industry in particular -- but getting those trucks into widespread service will be cha...

Self-driving Trucks: Savior or Scourge for Trucking? from 2020-03-31T22:21:46

Driverless trucks are still a few years off when you talk about the long-haul sector, but they are already in play on other markets, such as drayage and terminal tractors. We are making real pro...

Meet HDT’s Emerging Leaders from 2020-03-31T22:15:47

Where is the next generation of trucking leaders coming from? HDT editor-in-chief, Deborah Lockridge, discusses HDT’s annual Emerging Leaders awards and talks to three of our past honorees about...

Does California's AB-5 law mean the end of the owner-operator? from 2020-03-31T22:08:50

There have long been allegations of employee misclassification in the trucking industry, especially among companies that abuse the lease-purchase contractor model. But aside from those examples,...

Season Two Trailer from 2020-03-12T16:27:20

Are truck owner-operators trucking entrepreneurs, or poorly disguised employees? HDT’s editors dig into the issue of employee misclassification, California’s effort to crack down on it, and what...

What Does the Delay of the Entry-Level Driver Training Rule Mean for Trucking? from 2020-02-19T00:08:48

The entry-level driver training requirements were a long time coming – and now they’re going to be even longer, as the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration announced a two-year delay just...

ELDs: The Gift That Keeps on Giving from 2020-02-18T23:58:34

Once the final deadline for mandatory electronic logging devices came and went on Dec. 18, 2019, you might have thought that was the end of the story. Everyone’s now on ELDs, fleets are complian...

How Do We Get Started with Electric Trucks? from 2020-02-04T15:26:36

We’ve written a lot about electric trucks over the past five years or so. Yet there’s still a lot we don’t know about how they’re going to work in real-world fleet operations. How will we integr...

Does Trucking Have a Drug Problem? from 2020-02-04T15:19:04

There’s been a lot of recent activity on the drug-testing front in trucking: The debut of FMCSA’s long-awaited Drug and Alcohol Clearinghouse, a doubling of the percentage of drivers who must be...

How Far Have We Come with Electric Trucks? from 2020-01-21T07:35:59

It seems that hardly a week goes by here at Heavy Duty Trucking that we aren’t reporting on something related to electric trucks, so we’re digging into the electric future in this episode of HDT...

What Does It Take to Turn Around a Fleet with a Sagging Safety Record? from 2020-01-21T07:30:59

What can trucking companies do to improve their safety records? Under the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration's Compliance, Safety, Accountability program, fleets live and die by their C...

Season One Trailer from 2020-01-08T17:43:48

Listen to a preview of what's to come on the HDT Talks Trucking podcast! HDT Equipment Editor, Jim Park, gives an overview of what topics the podcast covers, as well as a sneak peek with clips f...