Webb Wheel OEM launches quarterly technical advice newsletter

Published: Mar 18, 2014

The OEM business unit of Webb Wheel has launched a quarterly newsletter containing information about wheel end specifying and maintenance practices.

The one page newsletter will include technical advice for maintenance management, technicians, drivers and others who interface with wheel end components on their trucks and trailers. The inaugural issue published in February gave guidelines for brake drum replacement and introduced Webb fleet technical/sales personnel.

Each issue of the Webb OEM newsletter can be found at www.webboenewsletter.com or can be delivered in PDF format directly each month via e-mail.

A ‘Toward Zero’ emissions Q&A with Volvo Trucks’s Roger Alm

Talking through the challenges, the technological advances, and the strategies for a sustainable future.

By Jason Morgan

Jason Morgan is the content director of Fleet Equipment. He has covered the trucking industry for more than 10 years, has a CDL and geeks out far too much over the latest truck equipment and technology.

Published: Apr 15, 2024

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1.2 million trucks

"Remember that number," said Roger Alm, executive vice president of Volvo Group and president of Volvo Trucks, to a room full of journalists just days before the grand opening of the World of Volvo, a "brand experience" building in Gothenburg, Sweden. "We need to transition all of these trucks that we have on the road to zero emission to be net zero by 2050."