Long haulage trucks are a key part of today’s goods trans-port networks. To reduce fuel costs and emissions from trucks, novel methods of regulating their speed optimally based on road slope data and other vehicles’ behavior are being developed. An important ability for these systems, when there is no vehicle to vehicle communication, is to be able to anticipate the speed of the vehicle driving in front.This master thesis explores a number of possible ap-proaches of predicting the speed of a preceding heavy ve-hicle. The work is limited to vehicles controlled by one of two common speed control systems: cruise control (CC) and look ahead cruise control (LACC) when driving on a highway. Initially, general methods of grey box and black box mod...