Using Trucking Tech the Main Stuff You Need to Know

The trucking industry has changed so much from the good old days. It used to be so easy. But don’t let these new fancy high tech stuff break your spirit. They are all fancy ways to do things we’ve been doing for ages. Once you get the basics down, it smooth hauling from there. in this article, we will discuss some of the main technological changes so you can get to grips with them.

Understanding the Purpose of Trucking Technology

Since the 1990s, rules and regulations changed drastically to make the trucking industry much more efficient, quick and safe. As part of that, vehicles, fuel and mapping has changed to make them more quick and accurate. You’ve had things way harder before when there was none of this stuff. All the comfy seats, aching rides and long journeys away from home; you’ve faced it all. So a cheap person such as yourself will have no problems facing a small device like this, trust me. We tend to give ourselves too little credit and this is a perfect example of that. Take that leap and you’ll see just how easy it was on the other side. These devices are all here to make your life easier and not harder, believe it or not, and I’ll show you how.

What You Need to Know About Electronic Logging Devices

This is basically an online logbook. They track and report your hours so that you are working within legal hour limits. They got two parts to them: hardware and app. The hardware of UT is installed on the vehicle engine for tracking. The app is where you and fleet managers see the info that is being tracked on that machine. All you got to do is open the app, put the details of the truck and yourself in and report stuff like when you are on and off duty for hour tracking. It’ll let you know when you have done enough hours and how many you have left too. The HOS is the hours cap where you calculate hours from. If you get any messages from the system on any other manager, it will pop up in messages.

Using GPS for Smarter Navigation

It’s basically the directions. Whereas before that was received via radio, nowadays, they are done through satellite signals and internet connections. Same thing, just fancier. All you gotta do to use it really is just open any mapping app like waze or whatever app you hage, have your location or GPS setting on and then you’re good to go. This also allows people to track your location in the case of an emergency and if you ever need to share your location.

Exploring New Fuel Options in Trucking

As manufacturers are trying to produce more sustainable fuel sources for vehicles, changes are slowly arising in the trucking industry too. Although they aren’t as common, they are still there and only get more popular with time. The main ones are: hybrid, electric and hydrogen.
Hybrid the most common the 3. It’s essentially when the vehicle runs on electricity when it can to save fuel and alternates between the two fuel types based on speed. These aren’t really all that different is terms if use ti the standard truck and saves more money in the long run. Electricity being the next most common. Its still in the rise but us getting more and more prevalent, especially in larger co operations. These are driven the same but need charging. You go into the charging station, plug in the car and let it charge. The issue with these is that they take a long time to charge so planning is crucial with this kind. Charging stations aren’t that common so planning trips with pit stops to charge, charging sufficiently well ahead etc can help avoid issues on the road.
Hydrogen cars are very uncommon and have a need to be fueled by hydrogen gas. These have their own fueling stations and locating them can be done in further questions from the company. Again, these require one to drive with planning to prevent issues on the road as with the electric cars.

Understanding Truck Controls and Vehicle Types

Slowly but surely, partially or fully self-driving cars are coming out and these are easier than ever. Driving these will come with the due training and the car will run on its own or with inputs from you in the form commands etc. Majority of the cars we are used to driving are manual, but now automatic cars are also available. These don’t require you to set gears at all and just need you to push the gears forwards or back.

Final Thoughts on Embracing Trucking Technology

While this may not be all there is to know and further search should be done for your unique questions, I hope this allows you to realize that the future we head into isn’t as scary as it may have seemed or at least, not as scary as before this article.
Well dive further into these new energy sources in a future article.