Fleet Future

Electrification is on the truck aftermarket’s radar. At Heavy Duty Aftermarket Dialogue, held just before the kick off of Heavy Duty Aftermarket Week, a panel of technology experts took to the panel stage to talk about the biggest technology trends heading toward the aftermarket.

At Heavy Duty Aftermarket Dialogue, just before Heavy Duty Aftermarket Week, a panel of truck part distributors, truck dealers and service centers took to the mic to talk about how the heavy-duty truck aftermarket is evolving.

Matt Stevens, Geotab vice president, electric vehicles, talks about the challenges and opportunities surrounding electric vehicles and he made several product announcements.

In the November issue of Fleet Equipment, we featured Kevin Baney, Kenworth general manager and PACCAR vice president, on the cover. Kevin took the position as Kenworth GM over the summer, and in the story he talks about Kenworth’s work on hydrogen-powered trucks, his background in engineering, the role of newcomers like Tesla and Nikola in the industry, and several other topics. But there was a lot in our conversation that there just wasn’t space for in the story. So we’ve compiled a few more clips of my interview with Kevin Baney here.

One of the most important considerations for fleet managers is how long you want to keep your trucks. Are you the type of fleet who wants to run every truck for a million miles, or do you want to keep a tight trade-in cycle so you’re almost always operating relatively new equipment?

To answer this question, our guest in this episode of Fleet Future is Jim Griffin, chief operating officer and chief technology officer for Fleet Advantage, who talks about how Fleet Advantage evaluates truck life cycles, and what fleets should be looking for.

The battery is, of course, crucial to the future of electric trucks. For electric trucks to become more viable in real-world applications, batteries will have to hit a certain standard. So what is that standard, and how far away might it be? Joshua Goldman of Transpower is our guest as we talk through these issues and more on the electric trucking future.

The first episode of Fleet Future covers one of trucking’s most buzzed-about topics: electric trucks. Guest Mike Roeth of NACFE talks about the benefits of spec’ing early, the infrastructure that will need to be in place, and what applications will benefit the most from electrification.