Categories: Drivers, Safety

A Canadian truck driver who administered first aid to a motorist who had been pierced through the neck by a broken steering wheel after a crash is the 35th...

https://www.worktruckonline.com/279289/trucker-who-saved-motorist-after-crash-named-goodyear-highway-hero

Categories: Equipment, Fuel Smarts, Operations, Small Fleet, Vehicle Research

Cummins is repositioning itself as Cummins Integrated Power. The new name denotes both the company’s expertise in technology integration and its reach into...

https://www.worktruckonline.com/279224/cummins-introduced-as-cummins-integrated-power

Categories: Electric, Electric Vehicles, Fuel Smarts, Global Fleet, Green Fleet, Sustainability, Vehicle Research

Very few new power plants have been built in the U.S. in the past 10 years, yet demand for electric energy is rising, fueled by a boom in battery electric...

https://www.worktruckonline.com/279670/can-the-electrical-grid-handle-electric-trucks

Categories: Electric, Electric Vehicles, Fleet Management, Fuel Smarts, Global Fleet, Green Fleet, Sustainability, Vehicle Research

When people speak of zero-emissions vehicles, they are really referring to tailpipe emissions. But what about upstream emissions from power plants,...

https://www.worktruckonline.com/279667/zero-emissions-vehicles-can-still-impact-the-environment

Categories: Equipment, Fuel Smarts, Green Fleet, Hydrogen, Operations, Small Fleet, Vehicle Research

Kenworth's latest green initiative, the Zero Emissions Cargo Transport (ZECT), is a hydrogen fuel cell powered battery-electric vehicle, capable at this...

https://www.worktruckonline.com/278654/kenworth-offers-sneak-peek-at-zero-emissions-transport-truck

Categories: Electric, Equipment, Global Fleet, Operations, Products, Small Fleet, Sustainability, Vehicle Research

Chanje's electric cargo van will certainly have great appeal among delivery fleets concerned with their carbon footprint, but at the end of the day it's a...

https://www.worktruckonline.com/157936/test-drive-chanje-electric-cargo-van

Categories: Electric, Electric Vehicles, Equipment, Fuel Smarts, Global Fleet, Green Fleet, Hybrids, Sustainability, Vehicle OEM, Vehicle Research

Electric trucks are coming to market on the strength of their lack of tailpipe emissions. But can trucking get over the cost, weight, and range hurdles?

https://www.worktruckonline.com/157686/electric-trucks-zap-in-the-pan

Categories: Equipment, Fuel Smarts, Operations, Small Fleet, Vehicle Research

Paccar is the latest North American truck manufacturer to bring a proprietary automated transmission to market. HDT's Jim Park got a sneak preview of the...

https://www.worktruckonline.com/157629/test-drive-paccars-new-automated-transmission

Categories: Electric, Equipment, Fuel Smarts, Global Fleet, Green Fleet, Products, Small Fleet, Vehicle Research

Can an electric medium-duty vehicle manufactured at a global scale and priced on par with a diesel finally achieve mass-market appeal? Chanje is betting on it.

https://www.worktruckonline.com/141666/chanje-brings-globally-scaled-ev-to-us-medium-duty-market

Categories: Equipment, Maintenance

If you want to test drive some new tires before you buy — and who wouldn’t — be prepared to invest significant time and energy in the project.

https://www.worktruckonline.com/157576/taking-tires-for-a-test-drive