Mack Ultra Service Agreement now standard on Mack LR Electric Models
Mack Trucks announced that its new Mack Ultra Service Agreement will come standard with the Mack LR Electric refuse model. The Mack Ultra Service Agreement for the Mack LR Electric includes scheduled maintenance, preventative maintenance, towing and repair, a battery monitoring service and Mack’s connected uptime services in one package that can be included with
How Mack Trucks Premium Service Agreement works
Had Thomas Edison been a fleet manager, his famous quote about genius might go something like: “Fleet management genius is 1% inventive solutions and 99% preventative maintenance.” Okay, so it doesn’t roll off the tongue like inspiration/perspiration, but you get the idea, and it could be that idea that inspired Mack Trucks Premium Service Agreement
Smart solutions for fleet service shops
During the Technology and Maintenance Council (TMC)’s Fall Meeting and Transportation Technology Exhibition, TMC and Decisiv Inc. released their most recent North American Service Event Benchmark Report, which showed an increase in parts and labor costs over the first six months of 2021. The reports, which cover power unit costs in nine top Vehicle Maintenance
Mack Defense reveals M917A3 Heavy Dump Trucks for U.S. Army use
This week we’re on the road again, as Mack Defense recently invited us out to experience the delivery of the first production M917A3 Heavy Dump Trucks, or HDTs, to the U.S. Army and the U.S. Army Reserve. They were the first to roll off the company’s new production line at the Mack Experience Center in
Mack Trucks celebrates 100 years in Canada
Celebrating its 100th anniversary in Canada this year, Mack Trucks is continuing to invest in technologies and services to support and grow its diverse customer base. Mack highlighted these investments with its Class 8 Mack Anthem and Class 7 Mack MD7 models during ExpoCam 2021, Sept. 22-23 at Espace Saint-Hyacinthe, Saint-Hyacinthe, Quebec. “Mack has all
Mack Trucks announces a Premium Service Agreement program
Mack Trucks has announced the new Mack Premium Service Agreement, a comprehensive maintenance program that simplifies maintenance management and aims to increase uptime, optimize vehicle safety and performance and improve cost of ownership for Mack Anthem, Mack Pinnacle, Mack Granite, Mack TerraPro and Mack LR customers, the OEM noted during a meeting at the TMC
Photo gallery: TMC 2021
For the first time since February 2020, a veritable lifetime ago, the American Trucking Associations’ Technology and Maintenance Council (TMC) held its usual meeting and exposition, this time in the fall rather than in the winter and held in Cleveland, Ohio—right in Fleet Equipment‘s backyard. With that being the case, the crew at Fleet Equipment
Nextran Truck Centers adds three new Mack dealer locations
Mack Trucks and Volvo Trucks North America dealer Nextran Truck Centers has acquired Westfall-O’Dell Truck Sales, adding three Mack locations to the Nextran footprint. This brings Nextran’s Mack facilities total to 20, and it is part of Nextran’s strategic growth plan that saw two other acquisitions within the past three years, resulting in the addition
Five truck trend takeaways from August
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 August focused on the latest truck trends, all in one place. 5. We had electric truck questions, and fleets had answers With electric trucks starting to make their way into fleets’
Eaton offers concentric pneumatic clutch actuators for Detroit, Volvo, Mack transmissions
Eaton has introduced two new concentric pneumatic clutch actuators (CPCAs) designed for commercial vehicle push-type diaphragm spring clutches. The CPCAs help optimize vehicle performance by working with a vehicle’s automated manual transmission (AMT) to continuously determine the ideal release position and clutch actuation when the transmission shifts, Eaton says. The CPCAs serve as an aftermarket
How the new offerings from Mack Trucks aim to meet demand in both the present and the future
Amid a year fraught with challenges, Mack Trucks managed to make a splash in two areas of the truck market in 2020: with the LR Electric refuse truck, and its re-entry into the medium-duty market with the MD6 and MD7 lines. Jonathan Randall, Mack Trucks senior vice president of North American sales and commercial operations,
Podcast: Extras from FE’s Mack Trucks Executive Interview
Every month on Fleet Equipment, we do a big, wide-ranging executive interview with one major company in the industry, and this month it was Mack Trucks. The story centered in part on their new LR Electric, which is currently being tested by a couple of fleets and will enter production soon. You can check that
