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NewsMay 20, 2009

Continental Offers Online Commercial Tire Training

Continental Tire North America has launched a new online training program, "Engage360 Untamed Innovation," to give tire dealers detailed information about the company's commercial vehicle tires

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NewsMay 20, 2009

TMC Announces Scholarship Program

The Technology & Maintenance Council of American Trucking Associations has launched its scholarship program for the 2009-2010 academic year for students from WyoTech or the University of Northwestern Ohio

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NewsMay 20, 2009

Truck-Lite Gains Diamond Supplier Status

Truck-Lite has been named Navistar's 2008 Diamond Supplier. To achieve Diamond Supplier status, suppliers must meet Navistar's standards for performance, quality, delivery, customer service and business practices

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NewsMay 20, 2009

Study Finds More GPS and Wireless Use Among Fleets

Fleet vehicles, trailers, construction equipment and mobile workers account for about 3.6 million GPS and wireless devices used in the U.S., according to a study by C.J. Driscoll & Associates

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NewsMay 19, 2009

Rotary and Chief Create Vehicle Service Group

Dover Industrial Products, the parent company of Rotary and Chief Automotive Technologies, has formed a Vehicle Service Group in an effort to enhance vehicle service and repair as well as leverage scale and technology

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NewsMay 18, 2009

Stoops' Sleeper Tractor Gains SmartWay Status

Stoops Specialty Trucks has been awarded SmartWay certification status on its new Freightliner Cascadia Custom Sleeper Tractors, the only custom sleeper conversion units to achieve the honor.

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Articlesby Tom BergMay 18, 2009

Test Drive: KW's T370 Hybrid Tractor

Until recently, hybrid-drive commercial trucks have been, almost by definition, straight trucks. These are often the ones used in urban stop-and-go operations, where hybrids offer the greatest fuel savings achieve

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Articlesby Tom BergMay 18, 2009

FLD-SD: Aging But Rugged

Severe Duty version of Freightliner's FLD proves a joy to drive, but get one while you can, because production stops in late 2009.

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Articlesby Jim ParkMay 18, 2009

Severe Service Tires: Give 'Em Your Best Shot

It's a long way between a downtown back alley and an oil field, but as a tire sees the world, there are more similarities than differences. On-highway tires live the life of Riley compared to the severe-service tires

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ArticlesMay 18, 2009

Navistar V-8s Gone from Ford Vans, Pickups by January '10

The once-popular Navistar-built Power Stroke V-8 diesel will be gone as an option from Ford SuperDuty pickups and E-series vans by the end of this year, as part of the settlement of a two-year-old legal dispute between the two builders.

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