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04/09/2021

How Trucking Fleets Can Escape the Insurance Squeeze

Illustration: HDT/Armie Bautista There’s no simple way to slip the grasp of rising insurance costs — it takes everything from running safely to shopping smartly. Even if a trucking fleet…

04/09/2021

Smart Fleet Strategies to Manage Tolling

Photo: Gettyimages.com/Johnrob The acceleration of the transition to all-electronic tolling confronts fleets with added practical and cost considerations. It could be said, if glibly so, that where trucks roll, tolls climb.…

04/09/2021

How to Rein in Rising Insurance Costs

Insurance is one of those things you may not really think about until your business needs it. That is, unless you’re facing skyrocketing premiums or, worse, shrinking access to coverage…

04/07/2021

Tire Maintenance: It’s Not Just Checking Tire Pressure

This truck demonstrates uneven treads on dual tires. Photo by Les Smart. Have you read articles on tires until you are blue in the face? Perhaps there will be a…

04/07/2021

What You Don’t Know About Your Wheels Can Hurt You

If you don’t use the proper tools, you’ll never know how much – or how little – clamping force you have on the wheels. Photo: Jim Park Wheel installation is…

04/07/2021

Tight, but Not Too Tight With Wheel Bearing Adjustments

Photo: Jim Park Properly adjusted wheel bearings minimize irregular tire wear, reduce the potential for wheel separation, and may help improve fuel economy. Somewhere between the thickness of a human…

04/07/2021

How to Prevent Wheel-End Fires

Getty Images Wheel-end fires often make the news, with dramatic clouds of thick black smoke. Millions of dollars’ worth of equipment and cargo goes up in smoke every year because…

04/07/2021

4 Ways to Prevent Truck Wheel-Offs

Photo: Jim Park Bearing failures are less common than fastener-related separations, 26% compared to 65%, say several investigative reports on wheel separations. The causes of wheel separation are well known.…

04/06/2021

How Technology Can Improve Last-Mile Efficiency in Construction Fleets

Photo: TRUX Every load delivered on TRUX is trackable by both the originator and consumer of the material. When it comes to technology, transparency not only leads to efficiency, but…

04/06/2021

Looking Beyond Tailpipe Emissions – How Clean is Your Fuel?

Photo: PERC when renewable propane is considered, propane-powered MD-HD vehicles currently provide a lower carbon footprint solution in every U.S. state except Vermont where electricity is generated by, and imported…

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How Trucking Fleets Can Escape the Insurance Squeeze

Smart Fleet Strategies to Manage Tolling

How to Rein in Rising Insurance Costs

Tire Maintenance: It’s Not Just Checking Tire Pressure

What You Don’t Know About Your Wheels Can Hurt You

Tight, but Not Too Tight With Wheel Bearing Adjustments

How to Prevent Wheel-End Fires

4 Ways to Prevent Truck Wheel-Offs

How Technology Can Improve Last-Mile Efficiency in Construction Fleets

Looking Beyond Tailpipe Emissions – How Clean is Your Fuel?

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