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Monster Jam’s design revealed for 2022 monster truck season

Lucas Oil Products has debuted its new Lucas Stabilizer Monster Jam truck set to compete in the 2022 Monster Jam Stadium Championship Series. The Lucas Stabilizer features a unique semi-truck body style, a design first for Monster Jam. The semi-truck body style is also a nod to the history of Lucas Oil. As a truck

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Commercial vehicle challenges are supply, not demand, driven

According to ACT Research’s latest State of the Industry: NA Classes 5-8 Report, with total Classes 5-8 build rates flat sequentially and essentially stuck at the year-to-date average, the supply-demand setup for the entire industry remains unchanged: Despite rock-solid demand metrics across the spectrum of medium- and heavy-duty vehicle types, industry capacity remains range-bound across

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Pedigree Technologies offers ConMet digital truck health data products

Pedigree Technologies has added ConMet’s full suite of digital products into the Pedigree Technologies OneView platform. The OneView platform is an open IoT solution to track, monitor, diagnose, and communicate with high-value assets in real-time, providing a full suite of its own digital fleet management solutions, including Canadian- and U.S.-certified ELD offerings. ConMet’s digital products

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Preliminary U.S. net trailer orders for October at 16,700 units

October preliminary net trailer orders of 16,700 units were down approximately 40% from September and off 70% from the peak order month last year, according to ACT Research. This preliminary market estimate should be within +/- 5% of the final order tally. ACT Research’s State of the Industry: U.S. Trailers report provides a monthly review

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Axele TMS upgrades software with dashboard KPIs

Axele LLC has upgraded its TMS software to include new integrations for factoring and load boards and new features for dispatch and settlement. The latest upgrades expand the software to better maximize driver schedules with the most profitable loads. The new upgrade to the Axele TMS includes new dashboard KPIs for safety and preventive maintenance issues which will

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Penske Automotive Group Acquires McCoy Freightliner

Penske Automotive Group Inc. has acquired McCoy Freightliner (“McCoy”), a retailer of medium and heavy-duty commercial trucks, located in Oregon. The McCoy acquisition is expected to generate approximately $200 million in annualized revenue, building further scale within the company’s wholly-owned Premier Truck Group (“PTG”) subsidiary, the company says. McCoy adds two full-service dealerships (Portland, OR

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Reyco Granning offers TransportMaster leaf spring upgrade

Reyco Granning is offering TransportMaster, a turn-key bolt-on upgrade to replace factory leaf spring on Class 3-5 Ford, Ram, GM, and EV chassis. The TransportMaster was designed to improve ride quality, manage body height and permit kneeling, the company says. Reyco Granning has developed a list of exclusive dealer/installer locations specifically trained to sell and

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Phillips Industries introduces maintenance-free tank saver

The new Tank Saver from Phillips is designed as a “set it and forget it” product to drain air tanks, eliminating the need for service once installed, the company says. Air brake systems are not impervious to water and debris and need to be purged regularly to avoid scaling and corrosion in the air tanks

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Noregon hires Jon Morrison as strategic advisor

Noregon has hired Jon Morrison, previously president of WABCO Americas and now CEO of J&M Strategic Insights LLC, as a strategic advisor for Noregon Systems. In this engagement, Noregon says it will draw upon Morrison’s extensive experience in strategy development, merger and acquisitions, and strategic partnerships in the advanced vehicle technology space. Morrison was president

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Truck video telematics are getting smarter

Today’s video telematics systems are capable of showing you what you need to see, and they’re getting smarter, using artificial intelligence to identify potential safe driving infractions and aim to reduce the amount of video footage you have to parse through. Click here to watch more of FE’s On the Road video series. Here is

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Proterra to supply battery technology for up to 10,000 Lightning eMotors EVs

Proterra Inc. has expanded its partnership with Lightning eMotors to power their Class 4 and Class 5 electric commercial vehicles with Proterra’s battery technology. Under a new multi-year supply agreement, Proterra contracted to supply battery systems totaling more than 900 megawatt-hours in battery storage capacity to Lightning eMotors to power up to 10,000 electric commercial

Penske, Cardinal Health partner to test trailer yard EVs

Penske Logistics customer Cardinal Health has been employing a pair of Kalmar T2E electric truck yard tractors at its Riverside, California, facility for the last year. The overarching goal is to assess how the implementation of electric vehicles can establish more efficient and sustainable operations. The EV trucks feature Kalmar’s latest lithium-ion battery technology and

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