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SEASON TWO

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SEASON THREE: EPISODE ONE

SEASON THREE

This season, RoadSigns turns to the business side of commercial freight. Its mission: to understand more about the microeconomic conditions that pressure bottom lines and learn more about how top decision makers and creative entrepreneurs alleviate those pressures and find new ways to allocate some very scarce resources (like fuel and capacity). In his quest to discover how the tiniest adjustments in practices create the most efficient scenarios, host Seth Clevenger also begins to uncover a blueprint for an entirely new way to solve problems one scarce resource at a time.

HOW CAN TRUCKING TAKE FUEL ECONOMY TO THE NEXT LEVEL?

The perpetual drive to improve fuel efficiency will only continue as fleets look to improve their bottom lines and GHG emission and fuel economy standards tighten. So, host Seth Clevenger wonders, what are fleets and tech vendors doing to find further improvements in fuel economy?

SEASON THREE: EPISODE TWO

HOW MUCH MORE JUICE CAN WE SQUEEZE OUT OF THE AERODYNAMICS LEMON?

Sophisticated fleets have already taken advantage of the low hanging fruit - sideskirts, trailer tails, and OEMs have made their tractors more streamlined. So, our host wonders, what's left? How much more is possible? Can trucking businesses still make lemonade by adopting new practices? Or is this field just out of juice?

SEASON THREE: EPISODE THREE

IS PREDICTIVE MAINTENANCE THE NEXT BIG LEAP FOR FLEET EFFICIENCY?

They say if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. So, what if you could plan maintenance and parts replacement on need, rather than standard service intervals? The cost benefits are invaluable. Equipment maintenance has a large part of the bottom line of trucking efficiency. Host Seth Clevenger begs the question, what if you could forecast when a component will fail? To help answer these questions, two technology suppliers who are working to streamline maintenance join us in the episode. With expanded data analytics, applying cost-saving approaches can happen industry wide.