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A Google search of "electric van" indicates a number of manufactures are moving in this direction. Because they are more agile and can more-easily get to a plug-in to recharge, vans may lead the way to electric commercial transportation (and to driverless commercial transportation as that...

Spending a night in an electric truck at a truck stop would be a different experience. You would not have the white noise of your generator or idling truck engine. Outside sounds would more readily penetrate your sleeper and disrupt your sleep. White noise generators might become a new thing for...

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What would you be hauling with such a truck if it could be built?

Have things changed that much that quickly? When we left the business in Dec, 2013, ours was an 11-foot, straight-truck sleeper. Nine-foot sleepers were seemingly common. Are they common no more?

I don't have unlimited money and I want one anyway! If it worked as advertised it would be a hoot to drive. Of course it would have to have a custom sleeper.

Batteries are charged by an onboard CNG turbine. Manufacturer says a driver could park the truck and stay in the climate-controlled cab for a week before the turbine needed to be run to charge the batteries. The battery pack is huge.

There is no plug-in. Batteries are charged by an onboard CNG turbine.

There are all sorts of Silicone Valley dreamers with money to provide the startup capital. This is the Tesla story for trucks.

This Nikola Motor Company class 8 tractor is fun to think about. It gets the imagination going. The company is taking reservations now. It says a working prototype will be shown by year-end and full production will begin in 24-36 months in a Utah plant. I'll believe that part when I see it, but...

I don't think your average pay per mile question can be answered at all when you are seeking to compare carriers. First, that is not a number carriers generally publish. Second, even if they did publish it, the average pay per mile two drivers earn with the same carrier can vastly differ. The...

Might be easier to just relace them. Bolt can make you new ones, can they not?

That may be a good approach, but in the case of a sensor that sometimes works and sometimes fails, testing it may not indicate a problem. You may be testing it when the occasionally-defective sensor is working perfectly.

Our truck had a Meritor transmission that would go into SM most times it rained, and sometimes when it was cold. The truck and transmission worked fine in that SM state. We could manually shift through the gears, but the automatic transmission function went away. When these failures occurred, a...

We opted for slip-in placard holders because placard rules change from time to time. A placard design (color, logo, border, language) that is legal today may not be legal tomorrow. Also, with the kind of expediting we did, some of our HAZMAT loads were unusual. No flip placard would have these...

We received a call this week from the man who bought our truck last year. He said that since buying the truck he has replaced some ABS sensors and later had a brake job done. Other than that, it has been normal maintenance and nothing else. The truck now has 940,000 miles on it and it still runs...

I have an unused, large, chrome underbody box to get rid of. It was purchased for a new truck but did not fit right given the sleeper configuration. It sits in a shed in Minnesota, about 15 minutes south of I-494 loop in the Twin Cities. The trucker who is able to pick it up will get it for a...

I don't know if it would work or not, or if it would be harmful to the vinyl but bleach comes to mind. You might try it on a small, inconspicuous space to see how it works.

Chrome!!!!