American Trucking Associations MCE 2016 trade show walkaround

By Fleet Equipment Staff
Nov 15, 2016

The American Trucking Associations Management Conference and Exhibition took place in Las Vegas from Oct. 1-4, featuring truck and technology news and product showcases on the show floor. News from the show included the launch of a new truck, a new proprietary PACCAR axle (featured in its own video here), safety systems, maintenance apps, and a whole lot more. If you weren’t able to make it out to the show, or if you were there but missed out on some of the news, come along with us on a tour of the show.

Avoiding wheel end maintenance complications

Here are the unintended component service consequences that come from fixing related equipment.

By Jason Morgan
May 18, 2023

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A brake job seems like a pretty straightforward, run-of-the-mill service event, but then the trailer is back in the bay, this time with a wheel end issue. It seems unrelated--leaking lube--but then, as the fleet manager, you think back to that brake job when you had to take the wheel end apart. Did your tech put it back together correctly? Could your service department or provider have caused this issue? Could it have been avoided?