Five truck trend takeaways from May
We know it’s not easy to keep up with everything that happens in the world of trucking. So here are the biggest stories from May focused on the latest truck trends, all in one place. 5. The right engine oil can impact your DPF maintenance costs While diesel particulate filters, and aftertreatment systems as a
Five steps to bring retread savings to vocational truck tire applications
Rolling through rugged construction sites, cornering in cramped city streets, or tackling rough-and-tumble, stop-and-go refuse tasks, you demand performance from your vocational tires above all. While the ROI that their long-haul brethren reap from retreads is well documented, that same value prop can be true for vocational tires. And you don’t have to just take
Making the Right Battery Choice for Your Fleet
Putting the right battery in the right application makes all the difference when it comes to uptime and fleet performance. The wrong type of battery, or ones not equipped for your fleet’s needs, can turn routine maintenance into emergency replacements, and anything done in an emergency or on the side of the road will cost
Understanding and improving your truck fleet health
Fleet health means understanding how fault codes interact with each other, what that means and what you should do about it to ensure your trucks can work productively. Connected remote diagnostics allows you to take a bird’s eye view of your overall fleet health and then dive into the troubled trucks, getting them into a
Diagnostic complexity keeps growing
Trucks have become increasingly complex over the last few years. Generations of mechanics were once able to easily adapt to changes in truck technology over the span of a career. In some ways, servicing engines became easier as new production advancements appeared. For instance, when did any of us last adjust the connecting rod shims
Infographic: Major differences in miles between breakdowns between best-in-class fleets and the industry average
Fleet Equipment built the infographic below showing how many miles between breakdowns fleets ran in Q3. Click on the infographic to expand. Statistics are based on TMC/FleetNet’s Vertical Benchmarking Program Q3 2019 Report: benchmarkit.fleetnetamerica.com/.
ACT Research: COVID-19 impact on global economies and CV demand predicted through 2021
According to ACT Research’s latest release of the North American Commercial Vehicle Outlook, 2021 is being forecast as the transition year, as the global economies and North American commercial vehicle demand move from COVID-19’s negative impacts into a meaningfully better situation in 2022. Additionally, ACT Research has created a COVID-19 Market Watch webpage to track
FTR: April preliminary net trailer orders sink to lowest level since 1990
FTR reports preliminary net trailer orders for April sunk to the lowest level in the modern era (since 1990), coming in at 300 units. April order activity was -95% m/m and -98% y/y. Trailer orders for the past 12 months now total 162,000 units. The severe recessionary conditions caused many fleets to pull back on
How to ensure the right trucks are running the right duty cycles
Making ends meet in the uncertainty of the Coronavirus pandemic could mean using the equipment you have in duty cycles they might not match. Cornering a Class 8 in cramped city streets is not only stressful for your drivers on the delivery front lines, but it also sends your MPG bell curve into the basement.
New FTR index tracks recovery from COVID-19 shutdowns
A new index provided by FTR provides visibility on the state of the trucking market as anticipation of an economic restart grows. The COVID-19 Truck Freight Recovery Index shows a sharp mid-March drop that has remained stable for the past two weeks, indicating a bottoming out in the spot market, FTR says. The index, a
