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Learn what the Next Generation in Trucking Association is doing to bring more drivers and technicians into trucking as a first career choice.

 

One of the biggest challenges trucking fleets face is finding good drivers and diesel technicians. For various reasons, from regulations to insurance to a lack of awareness of trucking-related careers, it’s often a second career choice rather than one young people might pursue right out of high school.



On this episode of HDT Talks Trucking, HDT’s Deborah Lockridge talks to Lindsey Trent, president and co-founder of the Next Generation in Trucking Association, about how her group is working to change that.



Learn More About Bringing Younger People Into Trucking 


Younger Driver Pilot Program Drops 2 Controversial Requirements
HDT Talks Trucking: Inside a High School Truck Driver Training Program
3 Things That Attract Younger Truck Drivers to a Fleet
6 Practices to Recruit Younger Truck Drivers
High School Teacher Honored for Truck-Driving Curriculum

Hydrogen is widely thought of as the ideal energy source for long-haul trucking. It will take trucks places batteries can only dream of today.

Renewable sources of hydrogen promise carbon-free, zero-emissions energy for trucking.

We seem to be on the cusp of a new era; truly clean, green
trucking.

Or are we?

Dr. David Cebon has very strong opinions on the use of
hydrogen as a heavy-truck energy source. He doesn’t think it will work, and he backs his position with science and economics.

David is a professor of mechanical engineering at Cambridge University in England and a Fellow of the
Royal Academy of Engineering.



 🏫 More About Clean Hydrogen

Estimating the Carbon Footprint of Hydrogen Production, by Robert Rapier

How Clean is Hydrogen, Actually? With Prof. David Cebon

Hydrogen or Electron Economy?

Is artificial intelligence the next big leap in truck driver recruiting and retention technology? Communicating with drivers on the road has come a long way since the days of pay phones, and it looks like AI will help take it even further.



This episode of HDT's Leadership Insights video podcast is produced in partnership with, and sponsored by, Tenstreet.





HDT’s Deborah Lockridge talks to Tenstreet CEO Tim Crawford about the current state of the driver market, how mobile technology is affecting trucking, AI-powered navigation combined with messaging, and more, including:


What's going on in the truck driver market
What can motor carriers do?
What problems can connecting navigation, geofencing, and mobile communication technology address for drivers?
Could this communication tech backfire and replace the important human touch?
How Tenstreet is using generative AI
What motor carriers should look for when implementing this or other new technology

Learn More About Using Technology in Driver Recruiting and Retention 


Why the Human Touch is Still Important in an Age of AI
About Tenstreet's AI-Powered Solutions
How Trucking Fleets Can Use Custom Apps to Preserve the Owner-Operator Model

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