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Class 7-8

SmartDrive 360 puts eyes in the back of truck drivers’ heads

Capturing video is a great tool for truckers who want to protect themselves from frivolous lawsuits, and for trucking companies that want to coach their drivers to improve safe driving skills. SmartDrive Systems has expanded on this idea, offering a video-based safety program that enables fleets to deploy up to four cameras on each truck […]

August 14, 2017

Safety & Compliance

HCSS eLogs solution gives construction truck drivers another ELD option

The construction software developer HCSS announced this week that it has jumped into the electronic logging device (ELD) market. As we reported in the June issue of Equipment World magazine, starting December 18, ELDs will be required for all commercial motor vehicles that currently use Hours of Service (HOS) paper logs to record a driver’s […]

August 4, 2017

Safety & Compliance

Bill to delay ELD mandate unlikely to garner enough support

More than 21 members of the U.S. House have signed on as co-sponsors to the bill that would delay the compliance date of the looming electronic logging device mandate. The bill, if enacted, would give drivers and carriers two extra years to adopt ELDs by pushing the compliance deadline to December 2019. The legislation, however, […]

August 2, 2017

Class 7-8

Volvo’s new VNL marks truck maker’s first long-haul redesign in 20 years

Volvo Trucks North America unveiled its new VNL tractor, the first major overhaul of its flagship long-haul model since the VN model was introduced in 1996. The announcement came during a press conference at the company’s new state-of-the-art customer center at its New River Valley manufacturing facility in Dublin, Va. “The new Volvo VNL builds […]

July 31, 2017

Class 7-8

Crane co.’s overweight haul hit with biggest ticket in R.I. history

The most expensive ticket in Rhode Island history just went to a trucking company that did not have an overweight permit for a 280-ton truck. Bay Crane Northeast was fined $57,000 Tuesday for attempting to travel through Rhode Island recently in an unpermitted 560,000-pound rig destined for Massachusetts, according to wpri.com. The truck, which was […]

July 24, 2017

Safety & Compliance

House bill would delay ELD compliance two years

A bill has been filed in the U.S. House to delay the compliance date of the federal government’s electronic logging device two years, to December 2019. If enacted, carriers would have two additional years to adopt electronic logging devices. The legislation was introduced Tuesday and referred to the House’s Transportation and Infrastructure Committee. Texas Republican […]

July 19, 2017

Safety & Compliance

Congress may attempt to alter or delay ELD mandate

A panel of lawmakers in the U.S. House on Monday issued a report advising the U.S. DOT to study whether a “full or targeted delay” of the federal electronic logging device mandate for small carriers is warranted. The House Appropriations Committee, which is comprised of 51 representatives, issued its report Monday night when it stamped […]

July 18, 2017

Safety & Compliance

Pipeline contractors request short-haul exemption from ELD mandate

By Matt Cole   An association representing the pipeline construction industry – including truck drivers who contract to haul equipment for pipeline construction projects – and a specialized equipment fleet are seeking exemptions from the electronic logging device mandate set to take effect on Dec. 18. The Pipe Line Contractors Association (PLCA) is requesting the […]

July 12, 2017

Class 7-8

“Disruptive” electric tractors might end up hauling heavy trucks in the opposite direction

A couple of years ago, you were probably being inundated by the sheer volume of headlines proclaiming natural gas as trucking’s great disruptor. Then diesel prices – the ultimate disruptor – dropped and have held under $3 per gallon for more than a year. One of my Facebook friends recently posted a query, asking his […]

July 4, 2017

Class 7-8

Test Drive: Volvo’s new VNR tractor with 38 tons of concrete in tow

Volvo bills its new VNR tractor, which debuted publicly in April as the heir apparent to the VNM, as “the future of regional haul.” Regional trucks rarely get the same attention to fuel economy and driver comfort as their long-haul siblings, but in the future—with lengths of haul shrinking and drivers’ cries for home-time increasing—amenities and aerodynamics […]

June 6, 2017

Construction Equipment

The evolution of heavy truck design

So what’s new in heavy trucks? Everything. Since the first emissions regulations for on-highway diesels arrived in 1974, four primary components of emissions have become well controlled: carbon monoxide (CO), oxides of nitrogen (NOx), hydrocarbons (HC) and particulate matter (PM). Now the federal government has its sights on regulating greenhouse gases and improving fuel economy. […]

January 2, 2017

Class 7-8

Inside the Nikola One: The electric semi is packed with tech to “revolutionize” trucking

“My goal is to literally revolutionize the trucking industry,” said Trevor Milton, CEO and founder of Nikola Motor Company (NMC), moments after the Nikola One was unveiled in Salt Lake City on Dec. 1. Nikola One is a working prototype of an electric semi-truck with 1,000-hp, a range of more than 1,200 miles, and zero tailpipe emissions except […]

December 14, 2016