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Smart Trailers are upending how truck fleets do business. These formerly brainless boxes are now providing insights and intelligence to fleets that help improve efficiency and productivity while making fleets proactive rather than reactive. Paul Menig of Business Accelerants discusses where this technology can take us, and what we'll need to do to get there.
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Registration is now open for the Technology & Maintenance Council Annual Meeting and Transportation Technology Expo in Orlando, Florida, in April.
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American Trucking Associations and the Technology & Maintenance Council have named Clifford Roberson of Tyson Foods the first Trailer Technician Superstar as part of National Technician Appreciation Week.
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Frustrated with the quality of technician talent your local school is churning out? Maybe you need to get more involved with the school to help solve the problem, rather than blaming the training providers and its graduates.
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The choice of trailer components such as suspensions, sliders, and wheel ends, is pretty complex – and spring suspensions are making a comeback in some areas.
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The existing SAE J1939 and datalink is the result of work initially started over 30 years ago. What do we need to stress so that the next 30 years of in-vehicle technical evolution will be as valuable as the last 30?
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The average cost per roadside repair is up 30% year over year, but five systems account for almost 70% of the work – identifying where many fleets might want to focus their attention.
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The American Trucking Association’s Technology & Maintenance Council has transformed its 2020 Fall Meeting into a virtual event, taking place online Sept. 14-17.
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A antimicrobial pesticide under consideration as a treatment for bed bugs is now considered an effective disinfectant treatment for trucks whose drivers have been confirmed as COVID-19 carriers, according to the American Trucking Associations’ Technology & Maintenance Council.
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When a less-than-truckload client came to Strick Trailers with an idea to build a more efficient and productive pup trailer, Strick delved into the task and came up with the Elevator.
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