Meritor WABCO receives Platinum Supplier Award from Wabash National Corp.
Meritor WABCO has earned the 2015 Platinum Supplier Award from Wabash National Corp. for excellence in quality and delivery performance. Meritor WABCO is one of two suppliers to win this award six times–the most of any Wabash supplier. Meritor WABCO supplies the trailer company with SmartTrac trailer anti-lock braking, roll stability and InfoLink data gateway systems. InfoLink
Meritor WABCO OnGuard collision mitigation system now available for medium-duty trucks
Meritor WABCO has announced that the OnGuard Collision Mitigation System is now available for use in medium-duty trucks for the first time. OnGuard is a radar-based active safety system for commercial vehicles that offers collision warnings and collision mitigation with active braking, as well as adaptive cruise control. The OnGuard collision mitigation system detects objects ahead
Making application-specific suspension specification, axles choices
Improving fuel economy and reducing maintenance, along with weight savings to help boost hauling capacity, remain the focus of axle and suspension system design initiatives. In particular, 6×2 configurations can address these needs. Operations best served by 6×2 configurations are those with variable loads. Applications include tank and bulk haulers, beverage and grocery fleets, refuse
Meritor WABCO given Hino’s 2014 Excellence in Quality Award
Meritor WABCO received the 2014 Excellence in Quality Award from Hino Motors Manufacturing U.S.A., Inc. This is the fifth time in the past seven years that Meritor WABCO has won the award. Meritor WABCO received the award in recognition of achieving a perfect zero parts per million (PPM) defect rate during the entire 2014 calendar year.
NTSB recommends collision avoidance systems as standard equipment; Meritor WABCO applauds decision
In a report published recently, National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has made a number of recommendations to help address road safety, such as requiring vehicle manufacturers to install forward collision avoidance systems as standard equipment on all new vehicles. The NTSB also recommended the installation of autonomous emergency braking systems following the publication of performance
Mitigating collisions with the latest in safety systems
At the 2015 Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting, Jack Van Steenburg, assistant administrator and chief safety officer at the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA), reported on trends in commercial motor vehicle safety. Citing 2013 data on crashes involving large trucks, Van Steenburg indicated that the increase from 2012 was less than half that in
Meritor WABCO introduces new programming tool
Meritor WABCO introduced a new programming tool that helps significantly shorten deliver times of replacement electronic control units for antilock braking systems. Beginning in spring 2015, service centers can use the Aftermarket Programming Tool to configure a new line of partially programmed control units to specific vehicle settings, said Meritor WABCO. “Technology like our new
Meritor WABCO adds automatic trailer lift axle control systems to SmartTrac portfolio
Meritor WABCO’s SmartTrac portfolio of stability control systems has expanded with the addition of new cost-saving technology —the SmartTrac automatic trailer lift axle control system—to monitor suspension load and manage lift axles for trailers, according to the company. “The SmartTrac automatic trailer lift axle control system automatically raises or lowers the axle based on cargo
Meritor WABCO expands OnGuard offering
Meritor WABCO now offers the OnGuard collision mitigation system on fire trucks built by E-ONE. According to the company, the first vehicle equipped with the new safety component is now in use by a fire department in Pennsylvania. “Every fire truck should have an OnGuard collision mitigation system because it helps protect vehicle occupants in
Three ways 6x2s are winning over fleets
Often times, any topic filled with apprehension can be seen in a new light thanks to a bit of old fashion education. There’s no clearer example of that than the growing interest in 6×2 axle configurations from fleets across the country. In the past, fleets had three main concerns with 6×2 axle configurations: 1. Traction;
Meritor, Meritor-Wabco driving simulator demonstrates new technologies
Meritor and Meritor Wabco have purchased a reconfigurable engineering driving simulator from Mechanical Simulation Corp. The QuadDS driving simulator features Mechanical Simulation’s flagship vehicle simulation software product – TruckSim for Driving Simulators. The simulator will be used by the two organizations as a tool to test, evaluate and demonstrate mechanical modifications and adaptive control systems
Building a safer heavy-duty truck
In a national poll conducted by Public Opinion Strategies in late September on attitudes about the trucking industry, 80% of survey recipients said they believe truck drivers are safer than passenger vehicle drivers. Additionally, 90% of respondents said passenger vehicle drivers are more likely to speed than truck drivers, and 74% think that when an
