Consulting & Special Projects
Custom market intelligence for freight, equipment, commercial vehicle, technology, and transportation planning decisions.
When your market question does not fit a standard report, ACT Research can help you build a clearer answer. ACT combines proprietary market data, disciplined methodology, and analyst expertise to support custom consulting projects across freight, commercial vehicle, equipment, technology, powertrain, used truck, and transportation markets. Whether your team is evaluating new technology, modeling total cost of ownership, assessing fleet utilization, preparing due diligence, or building a custom market view, ACT helps turn complex questions into decision-ready intelligence.
How ACT can support your custom market question
- Emerging technology and powertrain market analysis
- Public filing, acquisition, and investment due diligence
- Fleet utilization and asset performance modeling
- Custom total cost of ownership analysis
- Retainer-based market intelligence and ongoing analysis
Custom analysis for decisions that need more than a standard forecast
Some market questions require a tailored approach. Your team may need to evaluate a new technology, test a market assumption, size an opportunity, assess a regulatory scenario, support an investment decision, or understand how market changes could affect fleet, equipment, production, or asset strategy.
ACT’s consulting and special project work brings together proprietary data, forecast methodology, analyst interpretation, and decades of industry experience to help customers evaluate complex transportation market questions with greater confidence.
From decarbonization modeling and TCO analysis to fleet utilization, used truck pricing, autonomous technology, and due diligence, ACT helps customers connect market signals to the decision they need to make.
Special Project Work
Decarbonization & Powertrain Analysis
Evaluate adoption scenarios across Classes 4–8 vehicle applications and powertrain types, including battery-electric, hydrogen fuel cell, hydrogen internal combustion, natural gas, gasoline, propane, and hybrid technologies.
ACT helps customers assess how regulation, infrastructure readiness, customer economics, and market demand may shape powertrain adoption over long-term planning horizons.
Autonomous & Advanced Technology Analysis
Understand how autonomous and advanced vehicle technologies may affect Class 8 demand, fleet efficiency, driver requirements, regulatory considerations, insurance, and market adoption across select use cases.
ACT helps customers evaluate not only whether a technology may emerge, but how adoption could affect freight, equipment, fleet, and investment decisions.
Due Diligence & Market Validation
Support public filings, acquisitions, investments, and strategic transactions with ACT’s commercial vehicle, freight, equipment, powertrain, and transportation market perspective.
ACT helps customers validate assumptions, evaluate market size, understand demand drivers, assess risk, and build a more defensible view of future market conditions.
Fleet Utilization Modeling
Evaluate how fleet assets are being used and how utilization connects to operating performance, profitability, replacement timing, and fleet strategy.
ACT helps customers model asset productivity and understand how market conditions may affect fleet decisions.
Total Cost of Ownership Analysis
Compare direct and indirect costs across vehicle technologies, applications, operating conditions, infrastructure requirements, and ownership models.
ACT helps customers use TCO analysis to evaluate technology choices, fleet strategy, regulatory scenarios, and long-term investment decisions.
"I would recommend ACT as your number 1 ‘go to’ source for industry forecast and just general knowledge…you cannot follow this industry without knowing what ACT Research is saying."
Mike Zimm
BMO Transportation Finance
Project Examples
ACT’s consulting work is tailored to the customer’s question, data needs, timeline, and intended use. The following examples show how ACT has supported customers with regulatory, due diligence, technology, and market validation projects.
Have a market question that requires custom analysis? ACT can help determine whether a consulting project, forecast, report, or analyst engagement is the right fit.
Low Nox Standards Project
ACT supported organizations evaluating the future of emissions standards by providing market and technology analysis related to commercial vehicle regulation, adoption timing, and industry readiness.
This work helped inform discussions around the science, technology opportunities, and implementation challenges associated with future transportation standards.
Tortoise & Hylion Due Diligence Project
ACT supported Tortoise and Hyliion with market due diligence in preparation for their IPO, including a comprehensive total cost of ownership model that was later adapted for the public filing process.
Have a market question that needs custom analysis?
ACT can help you determine whether a special project, consulting engagement, forecast, or market report is the right fit for your business question.
Whether you are evaluating technology adoption, market size, fleet economics, regulatory timing, due diligence, or long-term transportation strategy, ACT can help build the market view your decision requires.