RoadSigns Extended Cuts News Updates

How Electrification is Rewriting the Rules for Mobile Hydraulic Power : As electrification reshapes the commercial trucking industry, vocational fleets face a unique engineering challenge: how to efficiently power auxiliary hydraulic functions such as dumping and lifting. In this RoadSigns Extended Cut, Eaton Mobile Power Group's Brad Gulick explores the operational shifts, maintenance realities and technological compromises that define the modern vocational truck.

Cox Fleet's Alex Fraser on Why "Good" Service Is No Longer Enough: In this RoadSigns Extended Cut, Alex Fraser, vice president of customer operations at Cox Fleet, explores the customer operations side of fleet service. Learn how to turn breakdown lemons into operational lemonade, maintain high standards across thousands of providers, leverage AI to analyze maintenance trends and transition from reactive service to proactive, telematics-driven care.

What Every Fleet Needs to Know About AMT Maintenance: Eaton’s Jason Denardo and Leah Bogle break down what fleet maintenance leaders need to know right now: why diagnostics must come before parts replacement, how the technician shortage raises the stakes on training and standardization, and what fleets can do in the next 30 days to reduce downtime, regardless of where the right-to-repair debate lands.

Why Fleets Are Shifting to Hybrid Models: In this RoadSigns Extended Cut, Kevin Clark, associate vice president of dedicated solutions at Cox Fleet, explores the evolution of hybrid maintenance models. Discover why fleets are moving away from fully in-house or fully outsourced approaches, how to execute seamless repair handoffs and what mindset shift leaders need to orchestrate a successful maintenance ecosystem.

The conversation around AI in trucking has never moved faster, and for many carriers that speed is itself the problem. Mark Hill, Chief Executive Officer at PCS Software, sat down with Transport Topics' Seth Clevenger to work through the questions that are keeping operations leaders up at night: What does AI actually look like? What are shippers starting to demand? And, what do smart leaders need to do right now to stay ahead of a landscape that looks different every quarter?

Mark Hill of PCS Software unpacks what agentic AI really means for trucking's workforce, covering dispatcher roles, digital twin training and why job growth, not contraction, may be the near-term story. Discover how AI is expected to transform trucking and how you can best prepare your business.

Aperia Technologies' chief commercial officer explains why proper tire management remains one of the most direct ways fleets can reduce operating costs, improve fuel economy and make technicians more effective. Download now for a free guide to improving your fleet's tire management program.

Stoughton Trailers executives share what fleet customers asked about at TMC 2026, from connected trailer road maps and next-gen connectors to galvanizing and managing mixed-age fleets. Download now to find out why trailers are no longer an afterthought in fleet strategy.

And How Top Fleets Are Fixing It: Aftertreatment doesn't have to be your biggest maintenance headache. Learn how proactive service intervals, restoration vs. replacement decisions, and smarter PM planning can reduce truck-down events and put you back in charge of your maintenance budget.

Learn how connected truck data accelerates triage and why mapping technician capacity is critical to overcoming the industry-wide shortage of shop bays, technicians and parts.