Top tips for prime truck performance
Schaeffer Manufacturing, maker of synthetic oil and fuel additives, provides this list to help keep trucks in prime condition: 1) Maintain a quarterly testing routine for bacteria proliferation and contamination in both the fuel and storage tanks. 2) Use a moisture control treatment before or during the winter months to disperse and encapsulate water in
Commercial tire retread options
Almost 90% of commercial trucking fleets retread their tires at least one time. Steer tires are typically retreaded with a drive tire design the first time. The second retread will most likely be retreaded back to the trailer. Drive tires are retreaded as another drive tire and then back to a trailer design. Trailer tires
Safety is first and foremost
While quality service is essential to its ongoing success, nothing takes a back seat to safety at Crete Carrier Corp.
Sioux offers mobile cleaning and thawing systems
The company’s mobile, self-contained cleaning and thawing systems are ideal for melting ice dams and thawing valves, culverts, hydrants, tanks, piping systems and drains. The trailers can be added to any Sioux steam cleaner, pressure washer or steam generator.
Rotary mobile column lift goes wireless
The Wireless Mach 4 mobile column lift is available in sets of four or six columns, each of which is powered by batteries and communicates with the other columns wirelessly. The lifts also are equipped with back-up communication cables that can be used in place of the wireless system with the flip of a switch.
Ram Truck brand new for 2011
The new lineup includes the Ram 3500, 4500 and 5500 Chassis Cab trucks, which provide customers with first-time innovations and features along with new standards of strength, utility and driveability. All engines, transmissions and axles are covered by a five-year, 100,000-mile powertrain warranty.
How can everyone stay on the same page when it comes to necessary tasks?
Stuart Comments: On your way to work, I am sure you think about what you want to do today, as well as what happened yesterday. Today’s new generations – X, Y, Z, whatever – get distracted by e-mails and texting because that’s what is immediate. To make sure everyone in the shop is aware of
Hankook, Goodyear, Yokohama win Tire Technology awards
The three tire makers received the following: Hankook, Manufacturer of the Year Award; Goodyear, Tire Technology of the Year Award; and Yokohama, Environmental Achievement of the Year. The honors were presented at the 11th annual Tire Technology Expo in Cologne, Germany.
Top Green Shop Award Winner: Swift Transportation, Memphis shop
Swift Transportation, Memphis shop, knows what it means to be green; its efforts have made the fleet the winner of the 2010 Fleet Equipment and CITGO Petroleum Corp. Top Green shop award.
Foundation Brakes
Issued in July 2009 by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), new tractor braking standards are set to take effect in August of this year. To meet and exceed the rule’s more stringent stopping distance requirements, braking system suppliers have been working in close cooperation with vehicle manufacturers to develop and refine effective solutions