Turn Rubber into Gold: Tire Management
Here's a quick quiz: What's your tire cost per mile? How many miles per 32nd do you get out of a steer or drive tire? How many miles do you expect from a steer tire
Here's a quick quiz: What's your tire cost per mile? How many miles per 32nd do you get out of a steer or drive tire? How many miles do you expect from a steer tire
Falling from a tall trailer will almost certainly result in broken bones or worse for a driver or maintenance person, and will cost thousands of dollars in medical and worker's compensation claims
At the inaugural meeting of the North American Council for Freight Efficiency last week, the Rocky Mountain Institute's Move team spurred a dialogue between users of "efficiency technologies" and the makers of these fuel-saving products. While the two industry groups don't always understand each other, they certainly agreed on the same thing at the council meeting: There is no source of fair, independent and neutral information on these technologies
Repossessions and liquidations of trucking equipment has started to fall off in the third quarter, with Nassau Asset Management's NasTrac Quarterly Index down
Trucking companies and industry associations across the country have been honoring truck drivers for their hard work and celebrating their role this wee
During a presentation at the annual convention of the Service Specialists Association in Washington, D.C., Bill Wade of Wade&Partners stressed the importance of people in affecting change in the next three years as well as the role of technolog
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, along with other state and local leaders, was on hand to celebrate the opening of Electric Vehicles International's worldwide headquarters and primary U.S. facility in Stockton, Calif., recently
CK Commercial Vehicle Research's fourth quarter Fleet Sentiment Report indicates that equipment buying is expected to drop in the next three months, despite higher readings in the last few quarter
While research indicates a recovery is under way, the transportation industry shouldn't expect to see freight growth until 201
The month of October saw an uptick in Class 8 net orders for all major North American OEMs, with orders totaling 21,792 unit
The North Texas Clean Air Coalition has honored Peterbilt Motors Company with its 2009 Clean Air Champion Award for the second year in a row as well as its Innovative Business of the Year Awar
A U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware has accepted a reorganization plan for Hayes Lemmerz International to come out of bankruptc
Kinedyne Corporation, Branchburg, N.J., has opened a new manufacturing facility in the Jiangsu Province of eastern China
Transcraft Corporation, the Wabash subsidiary that produces flatbed, drop deck, dump trailers and truck bodies, has sold its production plant in Anna, Ill., and will consolidate operations into its Cadiz, Ky., facilit
There have been many contributions to the improvement of truck and trailer aerodynamics - and therefore fuel efficiency - over the last few years, both from truck manufacturers and from add-on devices. Many of these advanced
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