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Vanguard Truck Centers opens new Texas facility

Mack Trucks and Volvo Trucks North America dealer Vanguard Truck Centers recently opened a new facility in Georgetown, Texas, expanding its sales and service support for the region north of Austin, Texas. The Vanguard facility, the eighth Vanguard Truck Centers location in Texas and the 19th site overall for the group, initially will offer $500,000

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Penske Truck Leasing expands heavy-duty EV charging network

Penske Truck Leasing has opened its sixth heavy-duty electric vehicle charging station in Southern California. Penske’s latest EV charging station in Ontario, California is equipped with a battery energy storage system, manufactured by Fluence Energy, LLC, which is designed to offset demand on the electricity grid during peak charging times. Siemens provided the eMobility hardware

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Michelin introduces digital services platform for fleets

Michelin has released a new digital cloud-based platform, Maestro. According to the company, Maestro streamlines the working relationship between service providers, fleets and Michelin with real-time digitization that reduces billing errors and improves service turnaround time. Maestro’s scheduling and real-time communication features are designed to help with productivity for servicing vehicles and planning for future

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TRIB, DKE Enterprises partner to promote retreading in California

The Tire Retread & Repair Information Bureau (TRIB) and DKE Enterprises Inc., which was awarded the California’s Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery (CalRecycle) Retread Tire Services Contract (DRR19084) on July 23, have announced a partnership. TRIB and DK Enterprises will provide the expertise to fulfill the scope of the contract, the companies say. Through

ESCO debuts HD Stud Kleen for commercial trucks

ESCO has released the HD Stud Kleen, a stud and wheel surface cleaner specifically designed for medium- and heavy-duty truck applications. According to the company, HD Stud Kleen cleans the wheel and hub mating surface and studs, allowing accurate torque, preventing potential vibrations and seized rims. Accommodating medium- up to heavy-duty truck stud sizes 3/4-in.

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Toyo releases new all-weather tire for vans, light trucks

Toyo Tire U.S.A. Corp. has released the Toyo Celsius Cargo all-weather commercial-grade tire designed for commercial vans and light trucks. Toyo says the Celsius Cargo’s construction is built for year-round reliability in applications including local deliveries, services and transportation. Celsius Cargo carries the three-peak mountain snowflake symbol, and the all-weather tread design features an outside

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Watch: Understanding the truck tire compounding process

Developing tire compounds is like baking bread. It takes just a few basic ingredients mixed together to make the basic recipe. Flour, water, yeast and sugar in the right amount and order will give you basic white bread. But it’s up to the chef to add in the extras, like sweeteners, seeds and butter, to

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From pen and paper to data automation: A quick-start guide to truck service dashboards

Glance around your office and tell me if this sounds right: The room is stuffed with stacks of service documents and hand-written notes, whiteboards covered in ink, a few filing cabinets filled with years of archives, and a desktop computer with folders full of Excel sheets. To the untrained eye it’s a daunting, unorganized jungle

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A service dashboard data use-case: Truck tire maintenance

If you’re just dipping your toe into the dashboard deep-end, finding a system to help provide visibility and control of your fleet’s tire program is a good place to start. To that end, Dana has developed its Rhombus TireAnalytics dashboard, which was created to give a fleet visibility and control of its tire program to

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How do you know that your service dashboard data is accurate?

James Griffin, chief operating officer and chief technology officer of Fleet Advantage, says he advises his clients to invest in a service dashboard because it keeps data secure and consistent. “The data used to create dashboards is generally sourced from defined data sources and not easily modified by multiple users,” Griffin says. “A spreadsheet can

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Peterbilt reports growth in Platinum Service Center Program

Earlier this year, Peterbilt launched the Platinum Service Center Program, which now includes 132 dealerships that have passed the certification process. In order to attain Platinum Service Center status, the company says, dealers must achieve high utilization of PACCAR Solutions Service Management, reduce overall dwell time for customer repairs, prioritize Peterbilt’s RapidCheck triage service, and

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FTR’s May Shippers Conditions Index falls sharply in May but remains high

FTR’s Shippers Conditions Index (SCI) for May fell sharply to 24.8 from the extraordinarily high pandemic-impacted 41.3 April reading. While not nearly as positive as April, FTR says, May’s SCI was still the second-highest on record. All inputs to the measure were weaker in May than in April, but all remained positive, especially capacity utilization

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