Month: October 2021

What do you need to know when comparing car shipping companies? For one, you should do your research and compare customer reviews. Your research should also include shipping companies’ rates, availability, and ease of use. To make the process a little easier, below are five important factors to consider when researching car shipping companies. 1. … Read more5 Factors to Consider When Choosing a Car Shipping Company

We have spent a lot of time lately talking about electric trucks, but there is a good reason for that. Many are expecting electric vehicles to overtake internal combustion vehicles on our nation’s roads and highways within the next decade. And here at the QuickTSI blog, we pride ourselves on focusing on industry-leading topics. We … Read moreTop Tips for Properly Maintaining a Hybrid Fleet

Tires aren’t easy. In fact, they are the most difficult products on the vehicle – without moving parts – to design, manufacture, and manage. But just like so many other aspects of the trucking business and truck manufacturing, technology is changing the game. Today’s smart fleet managers use all sorts of new tools to better … Read moreThe Technician’s Log: When Digital Technologies Meet Tire Management

Did you know that more than 340 tolled facilities currently operate under the authority of 125 different tolling agencies in the United States? These tolling facilities straddle everything from toll roads to tollways, turnpikes, parkways, bridges, tunnels and even waterways. Tolls originally grew out of a need to generate revenue to build and maintain the … Read moreA Complete Trucker’s Guide to North American Tolling

Unfortunately for our highways, freeways, and other roads used for long-haul transportation, most of them are paved with asphalt. Asphalt is a highly flawed material that easily breaks down over time, requiring constant repairs to keep it serviceable.  Thankfully, we’ve been able to come up with a few different options for paving roads that are … Read moreHow Innovative Road Paving Options Can Improve Transportation

Welcome to the latest installment in our ongoing series, The Technicians Log. Each time we dive into the technician’s log, we examine a topic that diesel technicians likely have on their mind. These are trucking shop technicians’ definitive guides. So, what’s today’s topic? It’s a wonky one: Trailer suspension damping. Let’s start with what suspension … Read moreThe Technician’s Log: Trailer Suspension Damping Best Practices

Trucking companies all over the world are moving towards an electric future. And for many, going electric sounds like a relatively simple endeavor. One simply needs to acquire electric trucks, charge them up, and run them, right? Well, the reality of the situation is not that simple. Electrifying a truck fleet requires a lot of … Read moreHow Trucking Companies Can Manage Electric Fleets

Can you believe it is already almost 2022? If time flies, this year feels like it has been a rocket ship. It feels like the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic was not so long ago, yet we find ourselves in year two of the crisis. We’ve spent a lot of time reporting on how the … Read more2021 Trucking Data Points to a Recovering Sector

It almost seems like 2021 has flown by. As we all reoriented our lives in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, 2021 has felt like some sort of strange year of hybrid-normality. And we say hybrid-normality because there is a lot that is still not normal. Many countries are still struggling under the … Read moreTrucking Companies Brace for a Rocky Fourth Quarter

Even if you don’t follow the normal news cycle – and we wouldn’t blame you if you don’t – matters in Washington are once again thrusting themselves into our lives. As lawmakers battle over the debt ceiling, the economy is once again held hostage. This begs the question: Haven’t we seen all this before? Surely … Read moreTrucking Interests at Stake in D.C.’s Legislative Battles