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Former Senior Contributing Editor
Well-known in the industry for his wealth of knowledge, folksy style and straight talk, Tom Berg covered vocational and medium-duty applications, maintenance and alternative fuels for Heavy Duty Trucking for several years.
He is a commercial driver’s license holder and a recipient of a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Truck Writers of North America and 11 Jesse H. Neal honors.
He has covered trucking since 1978.
It’s been a snowy winter so far in the Midwest. For streets and highways, snow means salt and that often means trucks with stainless steel bodies to carry and spread it.
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Jim Tymon also backs upgrading of the Highway Trust Fund and notes that state DOTs must replace retiring staffers.
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Imported steel costs more, whether used in dump trucks or Senior Contributing Editor Tom Berg's new garage lift.
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Future multi-voltage electrical systems have engineers are working on new standards for wiring, reports Senior Contributing Editor Tom Berg.
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A pipeline contractor in Ohio operates a specialty trailer that is exempt from rear impact guard regulations. Senior Contributing Editor Tom Berg found them parked off a highway.
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Whether here or in Europe, it takes skill and experience to get a trailer where it needs to be, says Senior Contributing Editor Tom Berg.
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Scale model trucks are often part of model railroad layouts, as Senior Contributing Editor recently found in his old hometown.
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A pair of heavy duty opposed-piston engines will be produced for an emissions-reduction project in California, officials with the program announced November 8 at a press event in San Diego.
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An analysis of four tanker configurations showed drag reduction of more than 2%. But Senior Contributing Editor Tom Berg suggests another way to cut drag – eliminating tanker fenders, which act like sails and pull backwards on the trailer.
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Laser beams should spot too-tall trucks and a flashing message will alert errant drivers, reports Senior Contributing Editor Tom Berg.
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