Strategies for fleet managers to navigate the bumpy road ahead in 2022
The COVID-19 pandemic turned on its head the way people look at trucking fleets and drivers. The world finally saw them through the lens of front-line heroes making sure deliveries of critical supplies arrived at hospitals and grocery stores. And later, when the first vaccines became available, truck drivers made sure they arrived at the
Predictive truck maintenance: The long road from concept to reality
Predictive maintenance is a practice that has captivated the trucking industry for years. The concept is simple: Rather than performing maintenance and repairs as a reaction to a malfunction, or based on intervals such as time or mileage, maintenance occurs when an algorithm predicts an impending failure. Though the idea is simple, the execution is
The engine impact on furloughed trucks that are ready to start
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic has been a story of two extremes—some fleets have been running harder than ever delivering essential goods and other fleets have had to park their trucks. As states across the country reopen and business starts picking up, the maintenance needs of your furloughed trucks should be taken into consideration.
Ready for winter: Truck air line inspection/replacement tips
Air lines should be inspected for damage to avoid failure on the road.
Navistar shares its customer-centric road map for improving services, developing solutions
Navistar International Corp. pulled back its market strategy curtain to provide an overview of its Vision 2025, a joint company and dealer network strategy that aims to make the OEM the premier solutions provider and OEM of choice for trucking customers across North America.
What electric trucks on the road now can tell us about electric trucks of the future
Electric trucks are hitting the road. And beyond the (extremely cool) fact that what once may have seemed like a distant fantasy has now officially become a full-fledged reality, there’s a lot we can learn from observing these trucks.
How to speed up maintenance and get trucks back on the road faster
For heavy-duty repair shops, the name of the game is efficiency. Your goal is to identify the issues with the trucks that come in and fix them, and you want to do this as quickly and efficiently as possible. You want to keep customers happy by getting their trucks back out on the road making
Kinedyne expands Grip Link tire chain lineup for off-road use
Kinedyne LLC has introduced the two newest members of its Grip Link tire chain family: The new 7- and 8-mm heavy-duty stud tire chains designed exclusively for off-road use. Grip Link Brand Tire Chains already come in 7-mm steel wire v-bar and 7-mm steel wire square link designs for highway use. The new 7- and
Stepping stones: Bendix travels further down the road toward the automated future
When we talk about automated vehicles, there’s a temptation to place the conversation far off in the future, but it’s worth remembering that the bones of the automated future are already on the road in today’s trucks. Fred Andersky, director of customer solutions for the controls group with Bendix, describes today’s advanced safety systems as
Leaner and meaner: Cummins readies the X12 engine for the road
Late last summer, just before Cummins unveiled its Class 7 all-electric concept truck, the engine OEM took journalists through a tour of its technical center, an incubator for the hatching the next generation of powertrain technologies. We walked through corridors of testing bays. The rumbling of super-secret prototype engines being put through rigorous testing procedures