Trucking Equipment Whitepapers

Location dots aren't intelligence. This practical guide walks fleet leaders through a five-stage connectivity model, a seven-step program framework, and the vendor questions that truly matter — turning trailers from blind spots into fully connected, revenue-protecting assets across the entire operation.

Maintenance is not a back-office function. It directly impacts uptime, delivery reliability, food safety confidence, team capacity, cash flow, and customer experience. PLM Fleet offers these best practices for the shift from reactive maintenance to controlled maintenance.

Parts management is one of the most overlooked drivers of shop profitability — and one that directly affects what your fleet pays. This free guide from Fullbay covers pricing strategy, inventory rules, and vendor relationships that define top-performing heavy-duty repair shops.

A detailed report on how fleets maximize the value of their commercial truck tires and create a multi-stage asset that delivers value through three or more lifecycles.

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.

Rising replacement costs are forcing fleets to rethink long-held maintenance assumptions. This whitepaper reveals how operating conditions—not equipment type alone—shape aftertreatment performance, reliability, and total lifecycle cost.

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.

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.

DPF issues in LTL fleets rarely stay isolated, driving downtime, fuel waste, and disruption. Many fleets still rely on standardized intervals instead of aligning with real duty cycles— a gap Ceramex solves through data-aligned strategies and validated restoration.

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.

Reduce wasted time at the scale and eliminate paperwork headaches. With Weigh My Truck and Fleet Profiles, drivers keep moving while your back-office gains instant access to tickets, improving efficiency, visibility, and overall cost control across your entire fleet operation. 

Labor rates, technician pay, shop efficiency, and the pressures shaping 2026 — benchmarked across 3,500+ operations. Fullbay's annual State of Heavy-Duty Repair gives fleet executives and maintenance leaders the data to make smarter decisions on staffing, costs, and operations.

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.