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Articlesby Jim ParkJanuary 17, 2012

Dispense With the Grief of Managing Tires: Let a Service Partner Do It for You

The service truck arrives at 8:30 Sunday morning, as usual. The two tire techs unload 16 freshly mounted and balanced, retreaded drive tires, eight new steer tires on reconditioned wheels, and a take-off drive tir

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Articlesby StaffJanuary 3, 2012

Charging Truck Batteries in Cold Weather

One of the biggest misconceptions about truck batteries is that they charge the same throughout the year. The colder it is outside, the less charge the battery pack wants to accept.

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Articlesby Jim ParkDecember 19, 2011

Are Your Wheel Bearings Adjusted Properly?

Good and bad in the wheel-bearing world is divided by a very fine line - about the width of two human hairs, in fact. That's not much of a margin considering the potential consequences of improper adjustment

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Articlesby Jim ParkDecember 19, 2011

Tire Report: Factory Settings vs. 'As-Driven'

If something is set to factory specs it must be just right, right? In the alignment world, "factory specs" really means it's close enough. Close enough, however, might not be good enough when your tires are being chewed right off the wheels

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Articlesby Jim ParkDecember 19, 2011

Tire Report: The Art & Science of Alignment

Vehicle alignment is a great example of why they teach geometry in high school. How many times did you wonder when you would ever use Euclidean geometry or the Pythagorean theorem?

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Articlesby Tom BergNovember 4, 2011

Long-Life Trailer Specs

Everything has a life span, but some of the things we make die sooner than they used to. For trailers, shortened lives usually can be blamed on corrosio

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ArticlesNovember 4, 2011

Training Technicians - Part One

Training has probably never been more valuable or important than it is in 2011. That's true no matter what the trucking job, but it's especially true in the shop

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Articlesby Jim ParkNovember 4, 2011

Tire Storage & Inventory Management

Even when your tires aren't out on the road getting used and abused, they're still costing you money. Stacked in a warehouse or in a storage trailer on the back forty, they're taking up valuable floor spac

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ArticlesOctober 25, 2011

Tips for Packing a Tapered Roller Bearing

Improper lubrication causes over half of all the bearing damage that we see in the aftermarket. Timken offers these helpful procedures for packing a bearing with grease

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ArticlesOctober 25, 2011

More Than a Temporary Corrosion Covering: Chemically Bonded Phosphate Ceramics

Fighting corrosion in trucks, ships, tanks, planes and equipment costs the Pentagon $22.9 billion a year

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