March 26 2014 - Products
Bendix Commercial Vehicle Systems
MATS, LOUISVILLE, KY -- The Bendix TABS-6 Advanced trailer roll stability system now offers automatic lift axle control, which can help reduce tire wear and fuel consumption by maintaining proper per-axle weight load.
Tags: Trailers, Bendix, Mid-America Trucking Show, Axles, Roll Stability
March 26 2014 - Products
Cummins
MATS, LOUISVILLE – A 25th Anniversary package is commemorating the first offering of the Cummins Turbo Diesel engine in Ram pickup trucks in 1989, the engine maker says.
Tags: Cummins, Ram, Cummins Turbo Diesel, Light-Duty Trucks, Engines
March 25 2014 - Products
Toyo Tire U.S.A. Corp.
Toyo Tires is rolling out three new premium tires this week at the Mid-America Trucking Show in Louisville, Ky. Featuring Toyo Tires’ proprietary e-balance technology, these tires deliver improved tire life, endurance, and retreadability plus reduced rolling resistance and irregular wear, says the company.
Tags: Toyo Tires, Tires, Mid-America Trucking Show
March 21 2014 - Products
Peterson Manufacturing
Peterson Manufacturing has expanded its LumenX LED line with an stop/turn/tail light featuring an integrated back-up lamp. The LumenX LED allows one of the seven diodes to provide DOT-legal back-up functionality as a two-in-one lighting concept.
Tags: LED, Lighting, Peterson Manufacturing
March 19 2014 - Equipment
Dana
TMC, NASHVILLE -- Dana is adding two new Spicer S140 Series axles to the company’s lineup of single-reduction, single-drive axles for Class 6 and Class 7 vehicles. Dana says the new axles are up to 50 pounds lighter than competitive offerings.
Tags: TMC, Dana Spicer, Axles
March 18 2014 - Products
Eaton Cummins
TMC, NASHVILLE -- Eaton and Cummins have added the ISX12 diesel to the SmartAdvantage powertrain portfolio while upping the gross vehicle weight for the previously announced Advantage Series/ISX15 diesel combination to 110,000 pounds.
Tags: TMC, Cummins ISX12, Cummins ISX15, Eaton Advantage, Transmissions, Cummins, Eaton
March 16 2014 - Products
LP Energy Systems
Propane is the alternative fuel that’s added to a diesel or gasoline engine in a product from LP Energy Systems, a small firm in La Conner, Wash. The device, called simply the Dual Fuel System, injects up to 20% propane vapor into the fuel stream to displace the more costly diesel or gasoline fuel and reduce exhaust emissions,
Tags: Alternative Fuels & Hybrids, Propane Autogas
March 11 2014 - Products
Prime Transport Solutions
TMC, NASHVILLE -- Just in from the United Kingdom is a pneumatic landing gear product that replaces hand-cranked gear and promises to eliminate injuries and save time and money.
Tags: Productivity, Drivers, Trailers, Landing Gear, Injury Reduction
March 10 2014 - Products
Alcoa
TMC, NASHVILLE -- Alcoa Wheel and Transportation Products says its new 14-inch wide base and 9-inch wheels are again the lightest in the industry, using Alcoa's proprietary LvL One wheel manufacturing process of light weighting coupled with 6061 alloy.
Tags: Wheels, Alcoa, Wide-Base Tires
March 7 2014 - Products
Sprinter
The model year 2015 Sprinter 4x4 goes on sale in the U.S. in the first quarter of calendar year 2015. Both 144-inch and 170-inch wheelbases will be available in both low and high roof configurations, in both passenger and cargo versions.
Tags: Cargo Vans, Mercedes-Benz Sprinter, 4x4
March 6 2014 - Products
Meritor
Meritor Inc. introduced a universal knuckle for use with its non-drive front steer axles, giving global customers a new solution to outfit drum or air disc brakes.
Tags: Meritor, Steer Axles
March 5 2014 - Products
SAF Holland
WORK TRUCK SHOW -- SAF Holland has a new steerable lift axle, the Neway LSZ, that features a compact mounting, fast deployment and retracting times, and angled air bags for greater stability on dump, mixer, block and other vocational trucks.
Tags: Holland, SAF Holland, Lift Axle, Auxiliary Axle, Vocational Trucks, Work Truck Show, NTEA, Axles
March 5 2014 - Products
Mitsubishi Fuso Truck of America Inc.
WORK TRUCK SHOW -- A new Canter FE130 model boosts gross vehicle weight rating and body/payload capacity by 700 pounds over the previous FE125 model, and a recalibrated Duonic transmission provides more performance, said executives of Mitsubishi Fuso Truck of America.
Tags: Mitsubishi Fuso, Canter, Fuso, Class 3, Work Truck Show, NTEA, Medium-Duty Trucks
March 6 2014 - Products
Navistar Inc.
Navistar announced enhancements to its severe service and medium-duty product lines, including adding selective catalytic reduction emissions technology to its higher-horsepower midrange engines.
Tags: Emissions, Navistar, Medium-Duty Trucks, SCR, TerraStar, Engines
March 5 2014 - Products
Isuzu
WORK TRUCK SHOW -- Isuzu Commercial Truck of America unveiled its lineup of 2014 and 2015 model year N-Series diesel models. The company also announced that it would extend its 24 Months/60,000 Miles Covered Maintenance Program to all the diesel models sold through June 30, 2014.
Tags: Isuzu, NTEA, Work Truck Show, Medium-Duty Trucks
March 5 2014 - Products
Telogis, General Motors
WORK TRUCK SHOW -- Auto and commercial fleets using OnStar-equipped General Motors vehicles will be able to use Telogis’ location intelligence platform to collect data on vehicle and driver performance that can help reduce costs and improve safety, the companies announced March 5 at the Work Truck Show in Indianapolis.
Tags: NTEA, Work Truck Show, Telogis, General Motors, Telematics, Medium-Duty Trucks
March 5 2014 - Products
Allison Transmission, Freightliner Trucks
WORK TRUCK SHOW -- Allison Transmission says a new series of FuelSense fuel-efficiency features can deliver 5% to 15% savings for certain truck applications compared to its current base-line fully automatic, “constant power” products. Freightliner says it will be the first OEM in North America to release FuelSense in medium-duty trucks late this year.
Tags: NTEA, Work Truck Show, Transmissions, Allison Transmission
March 5 2014 - Products
Goodyear Tires
WORK TRUCK SHOW -- The new Goodyear G731 MSA and G751 MSA mixed-service tires will be available this summer. Fleets will be able to buy several sizes of these tires with Goodyear’s exclusive DuraSeal Technology.
Tags: Goodyear, Tires, Tires and Wheels, NTEA, Work Truck Show, Vocational
March 4 2014 - Products
Navistar, Diamond Logic
WORK TRUCK SHOW -- Navistar announced new Diamond Logic feature bundles specific to the vocational truck market. Feature bundles are categorized by usage and body integration such as dry van, dump and utility as well as outline features relevant to operations of the particular application.
Tags: Navistar, Diamond Logic, Work Truck Show, NTEA
March 4 2014 - Products
Meritor
Meritor Inc. has increased the warranty coverage for RideSentry MPA38 and MPA40 suspensions to now include damage to the slider box caused by sudden, accidental impact with a curb or similar fixed object.
Tags: Warranty, Meritor, Suspensions, RideSentry
March 4 2014 - Products
Kenworth, Bendix
Kenworth Truck Company announced that factory-installed Bendix ADB22X front and rear air disc brakes are now available for new Kenworth T370 medium-duty conventional trucks.
Tags: Kenworth, Bendix, Air Disc Brake
March 4 2014 - Products
Meritor
Meritor Inc. has extended the warranty eligibility for Permalube RPL drivelines to 5 years/500,000 miles from the previous 4 years/400,000 miles for model year 2015 linehaul vehicles.
Tags: Warranty, Meritor, Drivelines
March 3 2014 - Products
Optronics
WORK TRUCK SHOW -- Optronics International is unveiling its new STL68 Combo Lamp at the 2014 NTEA Work Truck Show in Indianapolis. The 9-inch oval combination LED stop, tail, turn and backup lamp easily mounts to the surface of a vehicle, and at only half an inch thick, has the low profile of a through-hole-mounted lamp.
Tags: NTEA, Work Truck Show, Optronics, LEDs, LED Lighting, Lighting
March 3 2014 - Products
Hendrickson Specialty Products, Godwin Group Corp.
Truck Equipment maker the Godwin Group is phasing out the Page brand of suspensions and has named Hendrickson Auxiliary Axle Systems its primary lift axle suspension supplier.
Tags: Hendrickson, Axles, The Godwin Group