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Deborah Lockridge

Editor and Associate Publisher

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Guest Voices features contributed posts from members of the trucking and transportation industry on ...

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On the Road

Straight talk on trucking from a driver turned award-winning journalist.

Jim Park

Former HDT Equipment Editor

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Truck Tech

Insights on ground-breaking technical developments and trends in an industry being transformed by te...

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Executive Editor

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On the Road•by Jim Park•August 19, 2011

Save the Planet, Save Money Too

Hard-wired five-minute idle timers will probably begin appearing on trucks in 2014. You'll have two choices come winter: freeze your hiney off, or get an APU. This week we provide a list of idle-cost calculators so you can start budgeting for the new EPA rules

All That's Trucking•by Deborah Lockridge•August 15, 2011

Navistar Puts a New Spin on EGR Valves

You can't help but notice the positive vibe coming out of Melrose, Ill. about the MaxxForce 15 engine.

All That's Trucking•by Deborah Lockridge•August 15, 2011

Abolish the federal fuel tax?

UPDATED -- It seems these days the only thing Congress can agree on is that they disagree on most everything. Now that the debt ceiling crisis has passed, the next battle could affect you

All That's Trucking•by Deborah Lockridge•August 11, 2011

Shell betting $19 billion on gas-to-liquid technology

We've been hearing a lot about the use of natural gas in vehicles, either in compressed or liquefied form. But Shell is ramping up production on a plant that turns natural gas directly into a diesel-type fuel and lubricants

On the Road•by Jim Park•August 10, 2011

Truck Crash Lawyers Repurpose Roadcheck Stats

The headline reads "Texas Trucking Accident Attorney Says Roadcheck 2011 Reveals Truck Driver Fatigue Problem." It doesn't say we have a regulatory compliance problem; rather, this headline says in no uncertain terms we have a driver fatigue problem. We're back on the griddle again

Trailer Talk•by Tom Berg•August 8, 2011

Pre-trip preparations can maximize reefer uptime in hot summer temperatures

If something on a reefer unit is going to fail, it's likely to happen when components are working hard to overcome summer heat

All That's Trucking•by Deborah Lockridge•August 1, 2011

Highway funding in crisis

Four years ago this week, the eight-lane, 1,907-foot-long I-35W highway bridge over the Mississippi River in Minneapolis experienced a catastrophic failure in the main span of the deck truss, with more than 100 vehicles on the 1,000-foot span when it collapsed.

All That's Trucking•by Deborah Lockridge•August 1, 2011

A peek Into a cargo thief's bag of tricks

In interviewing security experts for our July cover story on cargo security, I learned about some of the latest tricks being used by cargo thieves

On the Road•by Jim Park•August 1, 2011

17 easy steps to 9.5 mpg

Owner-operator Henry Albert was at the Shell SuperRigs event in Kenly, N.C. in June, but he wasn't showing his truck in the conventional sense. He was walking anyone who was interested around his truck pointing out fuel-saving strategies he uses to achieve an average of 9 mpg

All That's Trucking•by Deborah Lockridge•July 29, 2011

HDT Magazine

All That's Trucking

Guest Voices

On the Road

Truck Tech

Save the Planet, Save Money Too

Navistar Puts a New Spin on EGR Valves

Abolish the federal fuel tax?

Shell betting $19 billion on gas-to-liquid technology

Truck Crash Lawyers Repurpose Roadcheck Stats

Pre-trip preparations can maximize reefer uptime in hot summer temperatures

Highway funding in crisis

A peek Into a cargo thief's bag of tricks

17 easy steps to 9.5 mpg

Unzipping a tire

Horton looks back at 60 years

Skirts built to last 1 million miles, and slide over the gap ahead of the tandem, their maker says