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    Pick your poison, truckers: Flat VMT fee, efficiency-based, or weight-based?

    Kevin Jones
    Oct. 27, 2023
    As states look for new ways to fund roads and bridges, the Eastern Transportation Coalition has formed a motor carrier working group to make sure the complexity of the trucking...
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    What's a fair way for EVs to pay their fair share for highways?

    Kevin Jones
    Oct. 25, 2023
    'The problem with roadway funding so far has not been EVs—yet,' said an electric vehicle policy advocate. 'But it will be soon.'
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    EV transition: Fleets 'very worried' about coming decade

    Kevin Jones
    Oct. 4, 2023
    The bottom line for a successful transition to zero-emission vehicles will be the bottom line, and that means OEMs must provide viable products that are supported by a dependable...
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    Truck charging in the 'real world'

    Kevin Jones
    Sept. 27, 2023
    Electric trucks won't work without charging infrastructure, so NACFE is looking at the challenges faced by fleets on the front lines of the EV transition. (Part One in our coverage...
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    So many alt-fuel choices, but so little time?

    Kevin Jones
    Sept. 19, 2023
    'We are going into this making cognitive decisions about the future of trucks every time we're making upgrades or building new facilities,' says Colter Souser of Rush Truck Centers...