Back in the early 1900s, a regional publication called WESTERN DRAYMAN & WAREHOUSEMAN began documenting the rapid changes in the business of moving goods around America, eventually changing its name to WESTERN TRUCKING. In 1968, Newport Communications took over WESTERN TRUCKING and reintroduced it nationally as HEAVY DUTY TRUCKING, the first of Newport's three publications devoted solely to the trucking business.

With its depth of experience and incisive, sometimes controversial reporting, HEAVY DUTY TRUCKING rose from an initial No. 7 position in the marketplace to its current leadership spot. And it's had a lock on that first place spot since the late eighties.

It has won numerous awards, including:

• Fifteen Jesse H. Neal Awards (the Pulitzer of the business press)
• Eleven Jesse H. Neal Certificates of Merit (runnerup to the award)
• The Crain Award (twice) for Distinguished Editorial Career
• Five ASBPE Awards
• Two FOLIO: Magazine Gold Awards
• Four Maggie Awards (the "Oscars" of trade publishing)
• Named to Crain’s BtoB Power Media 50
• Named BtoB Media Business Top Innovator in 2005

Top-flight journalists, and a dedicated group of outstanding freelance writers cover trucking from bureaus around the country. All have individual areas of expertise. Four staffers hold federal Commercial Driver Licenses and regularly drive tractor-trailers. They are reinforced by a cadre of freelance trucking journalists across North America and abroad, plus a full publishing staff and state-of-the-art electronics at our California headquarters.

Heavy Duty Trucking leads its field in both readership and advertising volume. With good reason. Exceptional journalism, a strong editorial philosophy and a no-holds-barred reporting style have set the standards to which all trucking publications aspire.

Trucking is in a state of escalating change in componentry and vehicle design, communications and new ways of doing business overall. HDT editors alert their readers to these changes, providing advance guidelines for solving potential problems.

For example, we were first to warn fleets of the diesel emission crisis of 2002; first to tell them how to eliminate fuel crossover line spills; first to report on states' use of de-icers that eat trucks; first to warn of low-sulfur fuel problems; first with an in-depth analysis of trucking's electronic revolution.

We don't stop with equipment. We exposed those who sell faulty tires to unsuspecting truckers; we unveiled a railroad-funded publicity/legislative war on trucking; we did the only analysis of Commercial Driver License training programs, and the only complete guide to employee drug testing, and we exposed driver school ripoffs.