Tech Goes On The Road: The Future of Trucking

Technology Revolution: The Future of Now

Bonnie D Graham

News, Business News, Technology

4.9 • 112 Ratings

🗓️ 17 June 2020

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Ripped from the headlines: transwood.com: “Technology is becoming an increasingly important part of everyday trucking life…improving trucker safety, efficiency and saving transportation companies…a new mobile app [Jan. 2019] helps truckers find safe and close-by parking spaces via smart phone, in-cab information systems and the DOT 511 platform.” trucks.com: “Zero-emission (ZE) truck and bus models are on the verge of a major surge in the United States and Canada. Among the fastest-growing vehicle segments in the U.S. and Canada are medium-duty trucks typically used for urban delivery.” inboundlogistics.com: “Trucking companies and fleet managers must incorporate emergent tech and process innovations to stay relevant and retain their competitive edge.” We’ll ask Bruce Outridge, The Lead Pedal Podcast for Truck Drivers; Chris Harris, Dawg On-It Trucking PAWEDcast; Vickie DeVos, Fleet-Tax Services and iMVR Canada; Jeremy Thiel, DriverCheck, for their take on Tech and Future Trucking.

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0:00.0	Where does yesterday's future, which is already here, ready here, really here, meet today's future, which is about to happen, and tomorrow's future, which could be just minutes away?
0:16.3	Welcome to Technology Revolution, the future of now.
0:21.5	Where host Bonnie D. Graham asks savvy futurists for their predictions about the tech-driven
0:27.4	trends that are shaping our future right now.
0:30.8	Here's your host who will take us into the future of now, Bonnie D. Graham.
0:36.3	Yes, indeed, Bonnie in the house. Welcome, welcome, welcome. I have a show
0:40.3	to you today. We've never done this topic before. I'm so excited. And thank you, as always, to Ryan Treasurer,
0:46.4	my co-producer and the voice of now, now, now. I love the way he does that introduction. Let's see what
0:52.4	we've got today. We're going to have some rip from the headlines buzzes to introduce the show.
0:58.1	So I have a buzz from transwood.com.
1:00.6	Listen up.
1:01.6	Technology is becoming an increasingly important part of everyday trucking life.
1:06.7	There's the key words to my listeners.
1:09.0	Trucking.
1:09.8	Improving trucker safety, trucker efficiency, and saving transportation companies.
1:14.9	In January of last year, 2019, a new mobile app helps truckers find safe and close by parking spaces via a smartphone,
1:23.5	in-cab information systems, and the DOT Department of Transportation 511 platform. And it also,
1:29.9	in order to keep them from being distracted by having to look at a device in the truck, a voice
1:34.6	option will tell them when they're near a parking spot. How about that? I have a blast here from
1:39.4	Trucks.com. Zero emission, that ZE truck and bus models are on the verge of a major surge in the U.S.
1:46.1	in Canada.
1:47.1	Among the fastest growing vehicle segments in the U.S. and Canada are medium-duty trucks
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