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Podcast: What new hours of service regulations mean for your trucks’ lifecycles

Alex Crissey
By Alex Crissey
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After FMCSA’s recent revision to the rules, you may be wondering how the soon-to-be-implemented hours of service regulations will impact your trucks. If you’re a regional haul fleet, you’ll have more opportunities to run them, so what does this mean for the trucks’ lifecycles?

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To answer this, FE spoke with Jim Griffin, COO and CTO of Fleet Advantage, who talked about this and the truck lifecycle impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. Listen below, and catch up with past episodes of the Fleet Future podcast here.

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