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May 17, 2021 With the words “freight efficiency” in our name and a mission to double it, you would think that the North American Council for Freight Efficiency (NACFE) would have a pretty good idea of how to measure it. Like the rest of the industry, we have found it to be much more complicated than perhaps Mike Roeth, NACFE’s executive director, or anyone else who was at the founding of NACFE in 2010 may have imagined. Ten years ago, when people spoke about freight efficiency, it still mostly meant MPG for equipment burning diesel fuel while hauling goods across long distances....

SuperTruck 3 Pushes for Electrification of Freight Trucks Volvo Trucks The Department of Energy intends to provide up to $100 million in funding to push for the electrification of freight trucks of all sizes as part of its new SuperTruck 3 program. A parallel, separately funded, effort will be aimed at reducing emissions and increasing efficiencies for on- and off-road vehicles, among other goals. Transportation accounts for approximately 30% of total U.S. energy needs and generates the largest share of the country’s greenhouse gas emissions, according to DOE. We're throwing greenhouse gase...

Unexpected downtime is every fleet owner’s worst nightmare. A disabled truck stranded on the side of the road creates a chain reaction of cost and inconvenience. A driver who might be paid per mile has been temporarily prevented from earning his or her wage. A shipment the truck is carrying has been delayed. The fleet manager must arrange a roadside repair or a tow depending on the nature of the repair or the truck’s distance from the nearest service station – a significant cost on its own. Finally, a key asset is sidelined and unprofitable while those repairs are made.

Share: As the Biden administration attempts a hard turn toward electrifying transportation, small, independent owner-operators — who represent the vast majority of trucks on the road — fear that the cost of moving in that direction could put them out of business. But commercial drivers participating in the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Super Truck program geared toward reducing emissions are trying to convince them otherwise. "Early on when we had emission-system truck rollouts, a lot of smaller fleets and owner-operators took it on the chin out in the field," Joel Morrow, a driver fo...

Alleviating cost fears in Biden’s electric-truck push Department of Energy’s latest SuperTruck initiative seeks buy-in from ‘grassroots’ truckers 0 33 2 minutes read DOE counting on electric trucks to get industry to zero emissions by 2050. (Photo: Daimler Trucks North America) As the Biden administration attempts a hard turn toward electrifying transportation, small, independent owner-operators — who represent the vast majority of trucks on the road — fear that the cost of moving in that direction could put them out of business. But commercial drivers participating in t...