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Safety & Complianceby Oliver PattonDecember 3, 2010

Getting Beyond Hours Of Service - Model Fatigue Management Program Nears Readiness

The hours of service rules are hot news right now, with possible changes pending in a rewrite that's due before the end of the year

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Aftermarketby Jim Park • Equipment EditorDecember 3, 2010

Problems At The Wheel Ends Can Cause Irregular Tire Wear And Premature Failure

From HDAJ's sister publication, Heavy Duty Trucking. We focus on tires here, mostly, but wheels and hubs, and the other gear that attaches tires to trucks, deserve attention too

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Aftermarketby Jim ParkDecember 3, 2010

Balancing Act - Why Balance Just Tires? They Are Only One Part Of A Rotating Assembly.

From HDAJ's sister publication, Heavy Duty Trucking magazine. Try starting a discussion about balancing truck wheels. You can just watch the eyeballs rolling backward in their sockets

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Maintenanceby Jim ParkDecember 3, 2010

Tire Report: Balancing Act - Why Balance Just Tires?

Try starting a discussion about balancing truck wheels

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Equipmentby Jim ParkDecember 3, 2010

Balancing Act - Why Balance Just Tires? They Are Only One Part Of A Rotating Assembly.

Try starting a discussion about balancing truck wheels. You can just watch the eyeballs rolling backward in their sockets

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Safety & Complianceby Oliver PattonDecember 2, 2010

Taking Safety To A Higher Level: Fatigue Management Is About More Than Hours Of Service

Back in 2001, Dupre Logistics had a problem. The Louisiana fleet was having too many accidents, some of them fatal

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Equipmentby Tom BergDecember 2, 2010

Graphic Success: This Fleet's Testing Helped it Choose Aero Devices

Testing on regular runs showed Duplainville Transport which aerodynamic improvers to use on its 53-by-102 van trailers, and experience shows substantial fuel economy gains with a quick payback on the extra money invested

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Fleet Managementby Diana Britton, Contributing EditorDecember 2, 2010

The Power Of Integration

About a year ago, TMW Systems asked Epes Carriers to test an integration of the IDSC TripAlert exception monitoring system, its Innovative Software platform for operations/dispatch, and its TMT Fleet Maintenance software

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Maintenanceby Steve Sturgess, Executive EditorDecember 2, 2010

Filtering Out The Facts

One of the methods all diesel engine manufacturers have adopted to reduce emissions - especially particulate

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Equipmentby Tom BergDecember 2, 2010

Class 6 - 7 Roundup: Trucks & Trends in Mediums

Retail sales of medium-duty trucks are generally climbing as the economy improves, and the time is right for a sales war, at least in the view of the market leader, Navistar International

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