Photos: Technology & Maintenance Council Meeting
Some of the sights from the 60th annual meeting and exhibition of the Technology & Maintenance Council of the American Trucking Associations, held in Nashville, Tenn., Feb. 28-March 3, 2016.
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Photos: 2016 Truck Dealer of the Year Nominees
Five truck dealerships were nominated for the 2016 Truck Dealer of the Year award. They are: Tom Bertolino, NorCal Kenworth; Jerry Kocan, Four Star Freightliner; Ron Meyering, M&K Truck Centers; Tom Noerr, Noerr’s International; and Dennis Thompson, Thompson Truck & Trailer. Photos courtesy of their respective dealerships.
Rush Truck Centers 10th Annual Tech Skills Rodeo
Day 1 of the Rush Truck Centers' 10th Annual Technician Skills competition featured 160 technicians and parts specialists from across the company's dealer network trying to diagnose staged bugs on trucks before the clock ran out. Most of the staged problems are electronic in nature, which requires technicans to run the appropriate troubleshooting steps and processes. More often than not, the problem has several trick dead ends that can mislead all but the best of them. Only 25 techs advanced to the finals.
Photos: Kenworth and the Capitol Christmas Tree
The Capitol Christmas tree was transported 3,000 miles by a Kenworth T680 from Seattle to Washington D.C., just in time for the lighting ceremony on Dec. 3.
Photos: Kenworths on the Paccar Test Track
Earler this year, Kenworth hosted a group of trucking editors for a ride and drive at the Paccar technical center near Mt. Vernon, Wash., in an area known as the Skagit Valley. The center has twin mile-and-a-half tracks. The outer loop is a 1.6-mile, two-lane, high-speed track used for testing aerodynamics and fuel economy. The inner 1.5-mile durability track simulates 1 million miles in three months.
Photos: Hauling the Capitol Christmas Tree
On Dec. 2, U.S. Speaker of the House John Ryan will be ready to light up this 74-foot tall Lutz Spruce on the west lawn of the U.S. Capitol Building with thousands of LED lights and 4,000 ornaments. The official welcoming of the U.S. Capitol Christmas tree and the kickoff to the holidays is a tradition that began in 1964 by House Speaker John W. McCormack.
Take a Photo Tour of an LNG LIquifaction Plant
“LNG is one of the better-kept secrets in trucking,” says David Jaskolski — and he doesn’t want it to be. He's with Pivotal LNG, a subsidiary of Georgia-Based energy company AGL Resources, which operates a liquifaction facility in Trussville, Ala., outside Birmingham. The company supplies more than 1 million gallons of LNG a month to UPS and other truck fleets. Editor in Chief Deborah Lockridge took a tour of the facility.
Photos:Truck Parts Retail Experience of the Future
Action Truck Parts in Bolingbrook, Ill., is paying attention to its customers and helping them get in and out quickly with the parts they need. It recently moved to a more visual customer experience offering more of a retail approach to parts purchasing. Photos: Denise Rondini
American Trucking Associations 2015 MC&E in Photos
ATA's 2015 Management Conference & Exhibition was held in Philadelphia. HDT's staff captured the event in photos.
Quick Tour: Mack/Volvo Hagerstown Powertrain Plant
Take a short stroll along some of the one-and-a-half-million square feet of production space inside the Mack/Volvo Powertrain assembly plant in Hagerswon, Md., which recently began assembling all Mack heavy-duty drive axles as well as handling the machining of axle carrier housings. Photos: David Cullen
TMC SuperTech 2015 in Photos
Take in some of the sights from the Technology & Maintenance Council's SuperTech 2015, held in Orlando, Fla.