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Heavy-duty truck batteries are often overlooked — until a driver goes to crank up the truck and it won’t start. In an age where nearly every system on a truck is “smart,” can technology help?



This episode of HDT's Leadership Insights is sponsored by, and produced in partnership with, EnerSys, manufacturer of Odyssey Batteries.



HDT's Deborah Lockridge talks to Daniel Jones, applications field engineer for Enersys, for insights into questions such as:


Why is it so hard to figure out when a battery is near the end of its life?
What shortens battery life?
What can a "smart" battery do?



🏫 Truck Battery Resources


How to Get the Most from Your Truck Batteries
5 Tips to Keep Your Battery Running in the Summer Heat



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The National Transportation Institute's Leah Shaver challenges some conventional thinking about women in trucking, from behind the wheel to the board room, in this episode of HDT Talks Trucking.


Shaver is president and CEO of the National Transportation Institute, which recently surveyed women about the challenges they encounter in the trucking industry — and she has some ideas on what motor carriers can do to address them in this interview with HDT Editor and Associate Publisher Deborah Lockridge.

It starts, she says, by addressing the barriers we’ve built for working moms, finding creative solutions to childcare, and overhauling the structures we’ve built to train industry newcomers.

Learn More About Advancing Women in the Trucking Industry

NTI Survey Shines a Light on the Hurdles and Opportunities to Advancement for Women in Trucking

Real Talk: The One Vital Element We Must Get Right As an Industry for Women to Join us and Excel

Trucking and Women: Difficult Discussions a Must for Moving Forward

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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