Latest News Updates From Gary Frantz

Business, Technology, Equipment, Fuel, Logistics, For-Hire, Top 100

Analytics Provide Hidden Gains for Tire Management

The data-driven approach has found its way into one of the more underappreciated aspects of trucking literally where the rubber meets the road: tires.

April 21, 2025
Business, Technology, Equipment, For-Hire

Fleets Turn to Remanned Parts to Reduce Operating Costs

The impact of a three-year freight recession and consistently rising costs is providing both opportunity and challenge for truck parts remanufacturers in the dubbed “reman” market.

January 13, 2025
Business, Equipment, Logistics, Private, Top 100

Going Private: Shippers Strengthening In-House Fleets

Even at a time when for-hire truck capacity is readily available at com­petitive rates, many shippers have continued to invest in their own private fleets.

August 16, 2024
Business, Technology, Equipment, Fuel

Electric TRUs, Diesel Hybrids Pave Path for Reefer Transport

As its technology advances, the omnipresent transport refrigeration unit remains the workhorse of the refrigerated transportation market with room to grow.

July 15, 2024
For-Hire, Top 100

An Immigrant’s Long Journey to Freedom Leads to Trucking

Since coming to the U.S. from Sudan in 1999, Lual Akoon has built a new life for himself — as a trucker and an advocate, meeting with legislators and representing drivers nationwide.

June 21, 2024
Business, Technology, Equipment, Fuel

Demand for Electric Power Takeoff Systems Is Growing

The power takeoff unit, a staple of thousands of vocational work trucks across dozens of industries, is on the verge of a makeover, as more operators are finding benefits in electric systems.

March 19, 2024
Business, Technology, Equipment, Logistics, Autonomous

Freight Brokers Adjust as Market Power Swings to Shippers

Throughout the pandemic-influenced years of 2020 through 2022, third-party logistics providers and freight brokers assuaged shippers by simply locating a truck for their freight.

September 25, 2023
Government, Business, Technology, Fuel, Logistics

The Trucking Industry Tackles Carbon Tracking

As corporate reporting on greenhouse gas emissions becomes commonplace, more shippers will turn to their freight transportation providers for help tracking their carbon footprints.

September 8, 2023
Government, Business, Technology

University of Tennessee Develops Fleet Sustainability Index

The University of Tennessee Fleet Sustainability Index contains emissions profiles for more than 400,000 motor carriers and millions of trucks.

September 8, 2023
Business, Technology, Equipment, For-Hire

Estes Among Fleets to Pilot Remora’s Carbon Capture System

Estes was among the first commercial for-hire carriers to sign up to pilot emerging technology developed by Remora.

September 8, 2023