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The automotive cybersecurity landscape is evolving, movingbeyond mere ransomware attacks on fleets. While that is something to be guarded against, hackers can now weaponize connected vehicles in ways that sooner or later will compromise safety.

Software defined vehicles and unsecure APIs and mobile services are opening new attack vectors for the bad guys to exploit. And new vectors are opening every day.

Upstream Security's president of North American operations, Hiam Kantor, joins HDT Equipment Editor Jim Park to discuss the scope of the problem, and look at what needs to be done to keep the Black Hats at bay. 

Watch this Episode of HDT Talks Trucking to Learn:


The scope of the cyber security threat
How hackers are getting around built-in security
features
How these hacks can impact safety 
New attack vectors coming through APIs and
mobile services
The emerging threat to electric vehicles
How some vehicle owners are hacking into their
own vehicles to jailbreak them

 

More About the Newest Cybersecurity Threats

Upstream Security

Upstream Security's Global Automotive Cybersecurity Report

Additional News Stories on Vehicle Hacking

Keep the Hackers Out: How Trucking
Companies Can Up Their Cybersecurity Game

ORBCOMM ransomware attack causes trucking fleet
management outage

Teen hacker says he’s found way to remotely control 25
Tesla EVs around the world

Hacker Exploits Sirius XM Flaw to Remotely Unlock, Honk
Horn on Cars

 Hackers caused a massive traffic jam in Moscow using a
ride-hailing app

With more attention being paid to Scope 3 emissions, may
need to take a more proactive approach and a deeper dive into your company’s operations to attract and keep customers.

 

On this episode of HDT Talks Trucking, HDT’s Deborah
Lockridge talks with one fleet that’s ahead of the curve in meeting shipper demands for more sustainable transportation. Shawntell Kroese, AVP of Sustainability and Sales Operations, Werner Enterprises, talks about the
company’s ambitious emissions-reduction goals, how it’s working on getting there, what Scope 3 emissions are, why fleets need to be paying attention, and advice on where to start.

 Links

Regulators Aren't the Only Factor Driving Decarbonization



EPA’s Scope 3 Guidance



Werner’s ESG Progress



HDT Emerging Leader Leads Werner Diversity Efforts

We are seeing a distressing increase in the number of truck
rollover crashes these days. And while they are fewer in number, the number of runaway truck crashes on mountain grades remain a problem. What's behind the increase isn't completely clear, but many believe it's a lack of driver training and understanding of vehicle dynamics.  

Brian Bullock, the founder Road-Aware Safety Systems, has
been studying such crashes for years. He has a pretty good handle on the problem, and he's bringing a solution to the table. He joins HDT Equipment Editor Jim Park to discuss drivers' apparent lack of awareness of vehicle dynamics (and in some cases of proper and safe driving techniques), and to explain how to solve this problem.



More About Preventing Vehicle-Dynamics Related Crashes

 

Road-Aware's home page



Mountain Driving 101 video series, featuring Equipment Editor
Jim Park
 

How a well-designed driver safety program will pay dividends

We are seeing a distressing increase in the number of truck rollover crashes these days. And while they are fewer in number, the number of runaway truck crashes on mountain grades remain a problem.

What's behind the increase isn't completely clear, but many believe it's a lack of driver training and understanding of vehicle dynamics.

Brian Bullock, the founder Road-Aware Safety Systems, has been studying such crashes for years. He has a pretty good handle on the problem, and he's bringing a solution to the table.

He joins HDT Equipment Editor Jim Park to discuss drivers' apparent lack of awareness of vehicle
dynamics (and in some cases of proper and safe driving techniques), and to explain how to solve this problem.



🏫 More About Preventing Vehicle-Dynamics Related Crashes

Road-Aware's home page



Mountain Driving 101 video series, featuring Equipment Editor Jim Park


How a well-designed driver safety program will pay dividends

Truck driver log falsification violations can lead to out-of-service orders, fines, bad federal safety scores, failed DOT audits, civil penalties, even nuclear verdicts. What can motor carriers do?

Log falsifications were the fourth most common driver-related
violation discovered in roadside inspections from 2019 to 2023. And they’re the second most common violation discovered in compliance reviews of motor carriers. Brandon Wiseman, president of Trucksafe Consulting, explains why — and what trucking companies can do about it — in this episode of HDT Talks Trucking.

  

Learn More About False Driver Logs and Hours of Service Violations 

Trucksafe: Controlling Driver Log Falsifications

Personal Conveyance: Is it Worth It?

4 Ways to Know if Personal Conveyance is Being Used
Correctly

5 Enforcement Metrics Fleets Should Monitor

Did you know that your fleet’s driver manuals and policies could become the detonator of a nuclear verdict against your trucking company? We’ll learn more about this plaintiffs’ attorney tactic from trucking attorney Doug Marcello in this episode of HDT Talks Trucking.

This episode is sponsored by Scraper Systems Snow Removal by Rite Hite

If you’re concerned about how to defend your company against aggressive plaintiffs’ attorneys who target trucking, you’ve probably heard of the “reptile theory.” But there’s another type of attack that has gotten less attention, and it means your safety manuals and policies could be a goldmine for them – and a landmine for you.

HDT Editor & Associate Publisher Deborah Lockridge talks to Doug Marcello, longtime trucking attorney with Saxton & Stump, and chief legal officer for Bluewire, about what he calls the “Rules of the Road” tactic.