With the increasing complexity of modern trucks and an even higher premium placed on drivers鈥 time, Glen McDonald, maintenance director at Ozark Motor Lines, knew he needed to maximize shop labor and move trucks through his fleet鈥檚 maintenance shops more 颅quickly, all of which required an updated approach.
March 9, 2018BusinessTechnologyEquipment
Career Pathways Are Evolving
In today鈥檚 data-driven world, where much of fleet management strives to solve all of its problems strictly by the numbers, consider the following truth: Data does not fix anything.
March 9, 2018BusinessTechnologyEquipment
Putting the 鈥楿p鈥 in Uptime
"Uptime,鈥 or keeping trucks running and earning money for their fleets and drivers rather than broken down on the side of the road, is a much-touted term in this industry 鈥 for good reason.
March 9, 2018BusinessTechnologyEquipmentSafety
Mobile Lifts Gaining Momentum in Service Shops
Ryder System Inc.is one company whose fleet maintenance technicians are using mobile lifts to get under big rigs.
March 9, 2018BusinessTechnologyEquipmentLogisticsTCA
BNSF Combining Technology, Human Expertise to Improve Operations
At Burlington Northern Santa Fe, it鈥檚 the combination of people and technology that鈥檚 making the railway safer and more efficient.
March 9, 2018BusinessTechnologySafetyAutonomousEditorial
Editorial: Industry Turns Gaze to Automation
Automated driving technology has been a consistently hot topic in the trucking industry over the past few years, but the glare of the spotlight was particularly bright last week at the Technology & Maintenance Council鈥檚 annual meeting and beyond.
March 9, 2018BusinessTechnologyEquipment
2018 TMC
Video coverage of the 2018 Technology & Maintenance Council annual meeting held in Atlanta.
March 8, 2018BusinessTechnologyEquipmentAutonomousTCA
Minnesota Speeds Up Planning for Self-Driving Cars
Self-driving cars will eventually hit the pavement in Minnesota, and state officials want our roads and laws to be ready.
March 8, 2018BusinessTechnologyFuel
Alternative Fuels Will Grow, but Diesel Remains Go-To, Daimler Exec. Says
INDIANAPOLIS 鈥 Alternative fuels and green technologies will continue to evolve and secure their roles within the trucking sector, but diesel is still the most efficient and cost-effective fuel and will be for some time to come, Kary Schaefer, general manager of marketing and strategy for Daimler Trucks North America, told attendees at the Green Truck Summit here last week.
March 8, 2018TechnologyEquipmentAutonomous
TMC Explores Deployment of Automated Trucks
ATLANTA 鈥 Industry experts explored a variety of approaches for developing and deploying autonomous trucks and examined the evolving regulatory framework for this technology here at the annual meeting of the Technology & Maintenance Council.
March 8, 2018