Plug Into Driver Comfort

When Shorepower Technologies succeeds in its 5-year goal to have 500 to 1,000 truck stop locations offering RV- and marine-type plug-ins, more truck operators, like Richard Hicks, will be able to stay comfortable during rest periods without burning a drop of diesel. Learn more about how truck fleets and operators are now using shore power and what plans are in the works to get more power stations online.

A Hero Among Heroes

Mike Schiotis, an independent driver leased to Panther Expedited Services, accepted the 29th Goodyear North America Highway Hero Award at the Truck Writers of North America Annual Awards Banquet during the Mid-America Trucking Show. With tears in his eyes, Schiotis told a rapt audience how his faith in the Lord gave him the courage to act when a gun-wielding man threatened a woman on a stretch of highway in Pennsylvania. Learn more about Schiotis and the three nominees for the North America Highway Hero Award.

A Major Kenworth Announcement

Unable to go to the 2012 Mid-America Trucking Show in Louisville, Ky.? There’s at least one event you won’t have to miss. Kenworth Truck Co. will stream its major public announcement live from the floor of the Kentucky Exposition Center at 11 a.m. (Eastern Daylight Savings Time) Thursday, March 22. To participate, view here or visit the streaming site.

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Leaner, Greener and Keener Side Skirt

For those truck operators who have been caught in a quandary — how to install trailer side skirts while also paying for higher fuel costs, Freight Wing provides an option. How about financing programs that result in net profits from day one, as payments are significantly less than the fuel savings? And on top of that, Freight Wing’s new 2012 AeroFlex is 30 pounds lighter. Learn more about the 2012 AeroFlex trailer side skirt and Freight Wing’s financing option.

Protection for "The Big Easy"

Just 14 months after delivering its first truck equipped with a PACCAR MX engine, PacLease is leasing a Kenworth T800 tractor equipped with PacLease’s 1,000th PACCAR MX engine to Lafarge North America. Lafarge is using the truck, along with a number of Kenworth mixers it’s leasing from PacLease, on several federal projects designed to rebuild New Orleans’ storm surge protection system decimated by Hurricane Katrina. Learn more about the truck and what it means to Lafarge.

Pilot Plans Plug-in Parking

Plans for a network of truckstops with electrified truck parking spaces along the nation’s major highway-freight corridors got a big charge by an announcement from the nation’s leading truck stop operator. Pilot Flying J plans to install plug-in and recharging stations at six truck stops in California and Texas. Learn more about Pilot Flying J’s plans.