The Evolution of Truck Cab Design: From Spartan Boxes to Rolling Offices
How the truck cab evolved from a place to drive into a place to work, rest and live.
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40 articlesWhat Garbage Trucks Can Teach Us About Fleet Data Strategy
Refuse fleets show why useful maintenance data starts with understanding the work a vehicle actually does.
Truck Platooning: Lessons That Last
What truck platooning proved, where it stalled and what the industry can still learn from it.
How Air Brakes Redefined Heavy-Duty Maintenance
How air brakes changed heavy-duty safety and the maintenance practices that grew around them.
The Great Knowledge Transfer: Capturing Critical Expertise Before It’s Too Late
Experienced technicians carry knowledge that no manual contains. How do fleets keep it when they leave?
The Diesel Tech Shortage Is Getting Real. Fast.
Why replacing experience is harder than filling an open role, and what that means for the shop.
What Your Fleet Can Learn From Your Old Phone
We replace our phones based on how they perform. Better repair data lets fleets make the same call about trucks.
Tired Data Lies
Maryam Khan on the familiar numbers that can hide the real cost of running a fleet.
A Tale of Two Narratives: California 2024 Electric Vehicle Sales
Looking beyond the headlines to understand what California’s 2024 electric vehicle sales actually showed.
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