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Productsby StaffAugust 15, 2011

Maxwell Technologies Introduces Ultracapacitor-Based Engine Start Module

Maxwell Technologies introduced a 12-volt ultracapacitor module that ensures reliable engine starting for commercial trucks and other heavy vehicles

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Productsby StaffAugust 15, 2011

September Forged Wheels Tire Pressure Monitoring System

September Forged Wheels, a national distributor of commercial truck products, introduced the Sentinel Tire Pressure Monitoring System.

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Productsby StaffAugust 15, 2011

New Dashboard Interface from GPS Insight

GPS Insight released its powerful and configurable, yet simple new GPS fleet tracking dashboard interface

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Productsby StaffAugust 15, 2011

Weighted Spill Tray

The Weighted Spill Tray from Andax Industries is the latest innovation in portable leak containment products

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Productsby StaffAugust 15, 2011

PeopleNet Expands Lane Departure Warning Integration Providers

PeopleNet expanded its Lane Departure Warning integration network with the addition of new partners Takata (which makes SafeTrak) and Mobileye

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Fleet Managementby Tom Nunlist, Associate EditorAugust 15, 2011

Hands-Free Cell Phone Options for Truckers

Last December, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration introduced a proposed rulemaking that would prohibit commercial drivers from reaching for, holding or dialing a cell phone while operating a commercial vehicle

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Equipmentby Jim ParkAugust 15, 2011

Utility Bodies: Any Way You Like It

There's no such thing as a cookie-cutter utility body anymore.

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Maintenanceby Rolf Lockwood, Editor at LargeAugust 15, 2011

The Art and Science of Truck and Engine Diagnostics

Diagnostics took a while to become a high art, though for for a long time it was a human one.

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Maintenanceby Jim ParkAugust 15, 2011

Extend Tire Life: Learn How to Tell When Your Trucks are Killing Your Tires

Thousands of tires are cast prematurely onto scrap piles every month. That's hundreds of thousands of miles of operation fleets give up because their tires die untimely, unnatural and often unnecessary deaths. And the tires themselves are rarely to blame

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Maintenanceby Jim ParkAugust 15, 2011

Uneven Wear on Wide-Base Single Tires

The wear demons don't discriminate between standard and wide-base single tires. With a few exceptions, the kinds of irregular wear that standard tires exhibit will appear on wide-base singles, too

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