Truck Tech

Guest: Jennifer Rumsey, chair and CEO, Cummins Inc.

Topic: In her nearly two years as CEO, Jennifer Rumsey has guided engine maker and power provider Cummins Inc. through challenges domestic and global, from navigating an ever-changing business climate in China to agreeing to pay nearly $2 billion in penalties for Clean Air Act violations even as the company focuses on its Destination Zero plan for carbon neutrality by 2050.

Follow the Truck Tech Podcast

Other FreightWaves Shows

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Guest: Duane Tegels, VTNA powertrain product marketing manager

Topic: Aerodynamics account for about 80% of the fuel efficiency gains in the new Volvo VNL, but engine improvements also contributed while helping usher in better performance and durability for the company's flagship over-the-road truck.

Follow the Truck Tech Podcast

Other FreightWaves Shows

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Guest: Eric Bippus, Hexagon Agility EVP, Sales and Systems Development

Topic: Natural gas as a transportation fuel typically accounts for 1% to 2% of the Class 8 market. That may be about to rise to fivefold, and tank maker ad fuel system developer Hexagon Agility is getting ready.

Follow the Truck Tech Podcast

Other FreightWaves Shows

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Guest: John Araujo, CEO, Forterra

Topic: With decades of experience in military applications, Forterra -- formerly Robotic Research -- is expanding into distribution yard autonomy where robotic yard tractors can precisely park twice as many trailers as human drivers.

Follow the Truck Tech Podcast

Other FreightWaves Shows

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Guest: Chris Stadler, VTNA program marketing manager, Long Haul

Topic: Work on the new Volvo VNL long-haul truck began a year before the current version debuted in 2017. It is about 90% new and will be the platform for future autonomous, electrified and hydrogen fuel cell models.

Follow the Truck Tech Podcast

Other FreightWaves Shows

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Guest: Carlton Rose, chairman, REE Automotive

Subject: REE Automotive won an unofficial sweepstakes in luring 43-year UPS veteran Carlton Rose to become the startup's chairman. Rose's deep experience with wannabe technologies is helping REE focus on what matters, and keeping spending in check as it readies commercial offerings of its by-wire electric electric chassis.

Follow the Truck Tech Podcast

Other FreightWaves Shows

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mary Chan spent much of her career in telecommunications, computer products and later at GM's OnStar unit where she brought innovations like Apple CarPlay first to the company's cars and trucks. Her connection to battery-electric and fuel cell trucks is more direct than one might think.

Follow the Truck Tech Podcast

Other FreightWaves Shows

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Follow the Truck Tech Podcast

Other FreightWaves Shows

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Whether its electric trucks, chargers or hydrogen-powered fuel cells, county Paccar in. But when it comes to infrastructure development, that’s not the truck maker’s game.

Follow the Truck Tech Podcast

Other FreightWaves Shows

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Guest: Richard Bishop, autonomous trucking consultant

Subject: The same autonomy being tested on American highways is already being used in farm fields. Consultant Richard Bishop explains. And we take a ride in the iconic Mercedes-Benz Unimog, the ultimate in severe service vehicles.

Follow the Truck Tech Podcast

Other FreightWaves Shows

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices