Fleet Advantage
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Electric Trucks
Truck Talk: Taking the high road edition
Truck Talk is a FreightWaves weekly newsletter focusing on electrification and autonomy developments in trucking with perspective and context.
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News
Viewpoint: Newer trucks help companies lower cost of onboarding drivers
The advanced safety features found in today’s newer trucks are a significant motivating factor for drivers to remain with a particular fleet.
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Daimler Trucks adds safety equipment as truck-related crash deaths fall
Daimler Trucks adds three safety advances, building on NHTSA data showing fewer truck-related crash deaths.
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Equipment
Chip shortage pushing capacity-starved fleets to used equipment
New Class 8 truck orders are piling up, leading fleets to turn to used equipment to add capacity in a consumer-driven freight market.
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2018 redux: Truck-buying binge borrowing from future business
Increased freight volume and higher carrier profits always drive Class 8 truck demand. The circumstances in 2020 differ from 2018’s tax cut-driven boom, but reasons…
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Used truck sales pick up
Used truck pricing pressure is easing as stakeholders from manufacturers to dealers report growing sales momentum despite the lingering pandemic — and because of it.
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Equipment
Used truck sales recovery firming up for all players
All stakeholders are experiencing used truck momentum despite and because of the lingering pandemic.
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Equipment
Used trucks sales continue climb from abyss
Prices are firming and demand is rising for used trucks after more than a year of doldrums mirroring a slowdown in new truck orders.
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Equipment
Auction volumes soar for used trucks
The recovery in freight pricing led to a five-year high in certain used truck auction volumes in June as crowds of identical used sleeper trucks…
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News
Selling safer trucks into a pandemic
John Flynn is convinced that safety equipment on heavy-duty trucks saves lives and could reduce nuclear verdicts. His company, Fleet Advantage, is taking a financial…
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