Jack Roberts

The adventures of Miss Super Samaritan

| May 18, 2013

Driving is one of those rare activities in our society where collective participation, communal cooperation and individual judgment and ability all come together in ways that usually work well – but often leave us scratching ...

The writing on the wall

| May 10, 2013

Forgive me if I’ve got Europe on the brain these days. I’ll be spending a good portion of this month in Germany, “on assignment,” as the big-shot network journalists like to say. So it’s inevitable, ...

Out on der Autobahn

| May 03, 2013

I just got back from a Daimler Trucks press tip trip to Gaggenau, Germany to see the North American unveiling of the new DT12 automated manual truck transmission. It was the first of two Daimler ...

The Volkswagen puzzle

| April 18, 2013

Journalists, when they get together, love to compare notes about the state of the industry or topics they cover and speculate as to what – or what might not – be happening. And trucking journalists ...

Could Navistar lawsuit provide long-sought clarity?

| April 09, 2013

The news breaking over the weekend that lawsuits filed against Navistar alleging the company and some of its management team misled investors and broke state and federal investment laws is a glaring reminder that as ...

Behind the scenes with Lisa Kelly

| April 05, 2013

Check out Jack Roberts' on-camera interview with Kelly via this link to the Overdrive post with the video. A couple weeks ago, as the Mid-America Trucking Show was winding down in Louisville, my friends at ...

My MATS Mash-up

| March 30, 2013

Another Mid-America Trucking Show is in the books and things are quiet for the moment while the trucking industry catches its collective breath. There’ll be more big news coming soon – I’ll be in Germany ...

Work Truck Show wrap-up

| March 10, 2013

A few thoughts today on the Work Truck Show, which wrapped up Friday in Indianapolis. Even though a late-season snowstorm fouled travel up a bit, the show was well-attended and the overall attitude was upbeat. The ...

Prompt updates to fleet data can help scores

Use the MCS-150 form to update annual vehicle-miles-traveled and total power unit data for your fleet, measurements you have control over and which figure in Unsafe Driving and Crash Indicator BASIC measures.

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Crashes and interventions: CSA’s crash flaw

Inconsistent enforcement: Know your vulnerabilities

Jack Roberts

Jack Roberts is executive editor for CCJ as well as trucks equipment editor for Randall-Reilly Publishing’s Trucking and Construction Media Groups and contributes stories to Overdrive, Truckers News, Truck Parts & Services, Successful Dealer, Equipment World, Total Landscape Care, Better Roads and Aggregate Manager. Roberts joined Randall-Reilly in 1995 as associate editor of Equipment World magazine and began covering both heavy-duty and light trucks in 1996. In 2006 he was the founding editor of Total Landscape Care before joining the staff of CCJ magazine in 2008. Roberts has won numerous editorial excellence awards, including two Jesse H. Neal awards and has been a Neal Award finalist once. He has also won three Robert F. Boger Awards given by the Construction Writers Association and several American Society of Business Publication Editors Awards. A native and resident of Northport, AL, Roberts holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Alabama.

You can follow me on twitter at @JackRobertsCCJ

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