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Maintenanceby Steve Sturgess, Executive EditorDecember 22, 2009

Rush Technicians Compete For Top Spots in Skills Rodeo

In the by-now familiar holidays ritual, Rush Enterprises held its fourth Technician Skills Rodeo, drawing techs from across its far-flung 62-facility truck center empire

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Productsby StaffDecember 21, 2009

Natural Gas Engine Available on Kenworth Vocational Models

Kenworth is making the Cummins Westport ISL G natural gas engine available on the Kenworth T800 short hood and W900S models

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Productsby StaffDecember 18, 2009

Stemco Duroline Rolls Out New Shoe, Brake Hardware Kits

Stemco Duroline has rolled out new shoe kits and brake hardware kits, which are available with the company's new high performance friction material with "Wave Process" technology

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Fleet Managementby Deborah LockridgeDecember 18, 2009

Electronic Logs: The End of the Comic Book?

Perry Famularo, a longtime independent contractor for Dart Transit, was "one of those die-hards who said I would retire before I would use a computer for log purposes.

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Equipmentby Tom BergDecember 18, 2009

Class 6-7 Update: Changing Faces

Some manufacturers have enough existing trucks to last well into the new year, so are delaying the start of their 2011 model years, while others will begin them as soon as January

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Productsby StaffDecember 18, 2009

ACS, Sleep Pointe to Offer Sleep Apnea Compliance Reporting

Sleep Pointe is teaming up with ACS Expedited Solutions to use the TripPak Truck Stop Scanning network to offer carriers a sleep apnea safety compliance reporting syste

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Equipmentby Steve Sturgess, Executive EditorDecember 18, 2009

Cummins Previews 2010 ISX

If it hadn't been for the development of copper zeolite as a catalyst to use in reducing nitrogen oxides (NOx), Cummins might have been right alongside Navistar in using increased levels of exhaust gas circulatio

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Maintenanceby Jim ParkDecember 18, 2009

Suspension Maintenance

The key to keeping suspensions working for you rather than against you is to keep everything tight. When suspension components work themselves loose, tires wear badly, springs break, fuel economy suffers, and drivers complain

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Equipmentby Tom BergDecember 18, 2009

Piggyback Pointers: Spec'ing For Intermodal

For much of the history of trailer-on-flatcar operations, semitrailers had to be beefed up to take the beating of rail service

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Fleet Managementby Diana Britton, Managing EditorDecember 18, 2009

Yard Management: The Virtual Clipboard

When fleets look to automate operations, one of the last places they look is the yard. For most carriers, yard management is still a manual process, with a fleet manager walking around performing yard checks, keeping track on a clipboar

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