Commentary: New Initiatives to Improve Parts and Service Offerings
Parts and service providers are making major investments to better position themselves to be the fleets’ location of choice for maintenance and repair.
Parts and service providers are making major investments to better position themselves to be the fleets’ location of choice for maintenance and repair.
In an era when the customer is king, the solitary truck driver is always the one at the end of the line.
Trucking journalists recently got an up-close demonstration of Bendix’s new Wingman Fusion integrated vehicle safety system, which uses advanced, high-speed computers, fully integrated safety systems and image-recognition cameras to give drivers fewer false alarms and faster responses in critical situations.
Despite rapid technological advances, Duff Swain believes trucking companies have not made the gains in productivity they should have in recent years. In this interview he summarizes the basic steps fleets should take to maximize each truck's contribution to the bottom line.
New engine oil categories call for a closer look at your engine oil strategies and offer opportunities for improving mpg.
Opinions vary about the effect on the U.S. of the surprise June vote by residents of the United Kingdom to leave the European Union, but you should be aware of some of the potential ramifications.
While autonomous truck technology is different from that in “self-driving cars,” could it be tarred with the same brush?
As if productivity and driver retention weren’t enough to make detention an important problem, it’s also a safety issue.
Mike Dozier assumed his responsibilities as Kenworth Trucks new general manager after a three-year stint as general manager of Paccar's Australian operations. In a world of future tech, Mike Dozier wants to keep Kenworth focused on the customer.
The head of fleet and small business sales for FCA US, which sells Ram pickup trucks and ProMaster cargo vans, among many other light-duty vehicle, talks about the fleet market and how the company is working to meet fleet customer needs.
If you’ve given up on the truckload spot freight market or have been using it less because of the past year’s depressed rates, it might be time to give it a second look.
Do you need to put new tires on a trailer? As it turns out, a lot of fleets do buy new tires for trailers, and for very good reasons.
In this Q&A we sit down with Tom Reader, director of marketing for ELDs at JJ Keller and Associates to talk about how fleets and shippers are learning to cope with the changes that will come with electronic logs.
Kottke Trucking's search for more insight into their operations eventually led them to TCG’s Activity-Based Costing and Profitability Management Tools. The fleet says it’s seen an increase in revenue per mile of 10.5% over the past 18 months by using TCG’s Cost Information System to make better decisions.
Western Star’s 6900XD pulls 70 metric tons through a dirt road course and comes through with flying colors.
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