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Jim Park

Former HDT Equipment Editor

Jim Park served as Heavy Duty Trucking's equipment editor from 2006-2024. Specializing in technical and equipment content, Park is an award-winning journalist who has been covering the trucking industry since 1998.

Before joining HDT, Park was a truck driver and owner-operator for 20 years and served as an editor for HighwayStar magazine, which ceased production in 2011. He maintained his commercial driver’s license to bring a real-world perspective to Test Drives, as well as to features, videos and podcasts about equipment spec’ing and trends, emissions regulations and developments, maintenance and drivers.

He is the recipient of 16 Jesse H. Neal honors (both finalist and Neal awards), including “Best Range of Work by a Single Author” in 2020.

Articlesby Jim ParkDecember 1, 2009

Maintaining APUs

The auxiliary power unit has come a long way since the first commercially available units hit the streets in the late 1980s

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Articlesby Jim ParkOctober 2, 2009

Get Drivers Involved in Tire Maintenance

Trying to get drivers actively involved in tire maintenance programs is like pushing rope uphill. If you're lucky, the good ones will kick or thump the tires during a pre-tri

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Articlesby Jim ParkOctober 2, 2009

Air Disc Brakes: You Can't Inspect What You Can't See

Imagine having a brand new truck sidelined during a roadside inspection because the inspector didn't understand what he was looking a

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Articlesby Jim ParkOctober 1, 2009

Test Drive: Detroit Diesel's DD13 and DD15 - Driving With SCR

Call it pre-need planning. When Detroit Diesel rolled out its DD15 engine in October 2007, the company said it was a clean-sheet design, birthed EPA-'07-compliant and 100 percent ready for EPA-201

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Articlesby Jim ParkSeptember 15, 2009

Streetwise Tires: Avoiding Urban Damage

Unlike their relatively pampered long-haul cousins that run all day long on flat, straight Interstates, tires that earn their keep on city streets get up close and very personal with all manner of road hazards, including curbs, potholes, piercing grave

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Articlesby Jim ParkAugust 26, 2009

Steering Clear of Trouble: Get Ready for Heavier Axles

While recruiting and compliance departments grapple with the potential implications of weight-based sleep-apnea testing for drivers, operations and maintenance personnel should be aware that trucks are getting heavier, to

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Articlesby Jim ParkAugust 10, 2009

Tire Report: Telematics and Tire Pressure Monitoring

You don't need me to tell you that maintaining correct tire inflation pressure across a fleet of trucks and trailers is a challenge of biblical proportion

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Articlesby Jim ParkAugust 10, 2009

'Hey, Where'd My Truck Go?' Driver Security Tips

Short of rotting pig guts or trash destined for landfill, crooks will grab just about anything they can dispose of quickly and sell without a trace

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Articlesby Jim ParkJune 10, 2009

Top Five Tire Killers

Nobody questions that tires will wear out. But what might be considered reasonable in terms of service life varies considerably from application to application, from truck to truck, and from tire to tire

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Articlesby Jim ParkJune 10, 2009

Cool It! Cooling system maintenance

We demand much of our cooling systems these days. Not only do they dissipate the heat generated by combustion within the block, but chances are they also cool large volumes of really hot exhaust ga

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