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

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

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?

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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