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The Fleet Lead — 71 episodes
The 11th hour: Vanishing truck slots and the return of the driver shortage
This week in trucking: Freightliner safety tech, Clearinghouse security
How Volvo raised the VNL's fuel efficiency
The FleetGap Initiative: get experienced help for your fleet at zero financial risk
How Daimler engineers boost the Cascadia's fuel efficiency
This week in trucking: DataQ upgrade, new autonomous drayage truck
What fuel efficiency techniques are fleets using?
This week in trucking: Paper medical certs extended, chameleon carriers exposed
Van interior upfits that boost residual value?
BeyondTrucks on trucking's bend toward AI
This week in trucking: Idaho speed limits, more Iran chaos
What you missed at Q1's fleet trade shows
This week in trucking: ELD tampering out-of-service extension, Indiana's 1,790 non-dom CDLs
Volvo Trucks' Peter Voorhoeve on tariffs, market timing, the all-new VNR, and North American manufacturing
Is broker liability about to change? Supreme Court case on Montgomery could decide
This week in trucking: New wheel-end sensor, diesel prices
This week in trucking: Rear impact guard milestone, truck tech lawsuits
Autonomous spotlight: PlusAI's software-first approach to trucking
Looming trade dispute ruling could reshape the U.S. trailer industry
This week in trucking: 13,000 CDLs gone, diesel price hikes
Autonomous spotlight: Torc Robotics driving Freightliners
Autonomous spotlight: Bot Auto narrowing cost per mile
Autonomous spotlight: Kodiak's focus on AI
This week in trucking: New vocational trucks, legal decisions
Trucking's "Law and Order" Era: Incoming TCA President Jim Mullen on FMCSA crackdowns, freight recessions, and emissions course corrections
This week in trucking: Tariff reruns, FMCSA wants more English proficiency
Daimler Truck's next diesel engine and the urgency of fleet renewal
Is manufacturing coming back to U.S.? Reshoring Institute talks tariffs, China, nearshoring
This week in trucking: emissions rollback, non-domiciled oversight
Ford Pro's take on tech shortage, work truck TCO, and journey to zero downtime
This week in trucking: Sysco loses retaliation suit, $200 million for truck parking
An AV vs. EV horse race: ACT Expo 2026
This week in trucking: Werner acquired FirstFleet, autonomous milestones
2026's regulatory rodeo with David Heller, Truckload Carriers Association
This week in trucking: Spot rates down, California enforces English
2026 Outlook: Rise of AI, dwindling EV focus, and brain-reading trucks
This week in trucking: Appalachian CDLs, STG Logistics bankruptcy
This week in trucking: California loses funding, USPS cuts non-dom CDLs
What to expect from PC-12 engine oils with Shell's Karin Haumann
Nuclear verdicts cost the entire U.S. economy
This week in trucking: Colorado CDL scrutiny, LTL closure
This week in trucking: Rail merger targets trucking, 17k CDLs on pause
This week in trucking: Prime's nuclear verdict, non-domiciled CDL disputes
New ATA chairman on drivers, tankers, regs, and trucking's future
This week in trucking: Fleets downsizing, autonomous expands
Dean Croke's' connection to Wreaths Across America, U.S. truck drivers
Trucking's year in review: Uncertainty
This week in trucking: CDL crackdown, truck orders plummet
Podcast: Ryder recruiter Suzanne Varghese on veteran hiring best practices
Hendrickson's 'Beyond Suspensions' strategy
This week in trucking: Freight recession symptoms, Bollinger quits
Volvo Trucks on the freight recession, fleet survival, and the bottom line
This week in trucking: NOx rule stays, Schneider ready for acquisitions
How Peterbilt is juggling new vehicle platforms, waiting on the freight recession
Volvo's autonomous roadmap
Veteran's Day Special: Talking veterans with Nick Smith, a U.S. Marine turned International sensation
Navigating uncertainty with Fleet Advantage's Brian Antonellis
Jade Transport driver talks his trailer, dashcams, and more
ATRI, A&M Transport talk top fleet concerns
Leadership means focusing on the outcome
Calling plays for mobile maintenance
Great Dane’s secret to 125 years is focusing “on the right thing”
Trucking today: trailer manufacturing, English requirements, emissions regs
How smaller fleets can use AI to survive the freight recession
The future of electric truck adoption is dimmer
Tank trucks explained
Trailer/Body Builders Buyer's Guide: 65 years and counting
How to launch an electric truck company during the Trump era
For-hire’s overcapacity problem
Tanker segment to outpace GDP through 2029
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