What’s Wrecking Your Tires?
Tire service providers and retreaders can be a great source of failure analysis if the unit number and wheel position are tracked. Photos: Jim Park What’s Wrecking Your Tires? It’s said…
Read more...The Art of Tire Design
Stopping, starting, and scrubbing tires (turning) are what wear away the tread and can impact uniform wear. Photo: U.S. Tire Manufacturers Association The Art of Tire Design Other than tires for…
Read more...Test Drive: With Early Autonomous Tech, Drivers Are Still Required
Equipment Editor Jim Park goes hands-free with Daimler’s Lane Keep Assist – but LKA is not meant as a self-driving technology, and drivers are supposed to keep their hands on…
Read more...How 3D Printing Breathes New Life Into Old Truck Parts
Remanufacturing traditionally involves removing material for restoration but processes like 3D printing and additive manufacturing are offering more ways to increase useful life in used parts. Twin wire arc welding produces…
Read more...Truckers, Drugs and Safety
This crash made national headlines, when an Amtrak train carrying Republican congressional members hit a refuse truck stopped on a crossing. The National Transportation Safety Board determined the driver was…
Read more...Trucking Alliance: Driver Drug Use a Top Trucking Safety Issue
This crash made national headlines, when an Amtrak train carrying Republican congressional members hit a refuse truck stopped on a crossing. The National Transportation Safety Board determined the driver was…
Read more...Downtime Truism: If the Wheels Don’t Turn, You Don’t Earn
there’s more to vehicle downtime costs than service, repairs, and part replacement expenses. Photo courtesy of General Motors Downtime Truism: If the Wheels Don’t Turn, You Don’t Earn One of…
Read more...Car Sharing Solution Saves Euros for Dutch Utility
Car Sharing Solution Saves Euros for Dutch Utility The Dutch utility Cogas introduced the corporate car sharing solution fleetster in August 2013 to manage a pool of nine cars. “We…
Read more...The Rising Importance of Fleet Managers
Image via Gerd Altmann from Pixabay. The Rising Importance of Fleet Managers When we finally get there, they say we won’t own autonomous vehicles (AVs), we’ll summon them as needed…
Read more...The Future is Electric, But…
By all accounts, the electric truck market is “pre-commercialization,” with models in testing by almost all major truck makers and some upstart independents. Fuso’s all-electric eCanter, seen here at the 2019…
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