Diesel or gasoline in your next light truck? Complexity has made modern clean-burning diesels more expensive to buy, while improvements to today’s gasoline engines make them a viable alternative.
There’s no magic wand for creating a safety culture within your trucking organization, but two fleets shared their own secrets to success June 24, during the Truckload Carriers Association’s Virtual Safety and Security Meeting.
Transmissions in medium-duty trucks have been commodities for years. GHG Phase 2 is changing that; transmissions are becoming much more sophisticated.
Spec'ing your first truck can be a daunting experience, here are some of the basics; your dealer can help with the rest.
A regional spec is a pretty broad term. How do you optimize efficiency and cost when a truck might be doing completely different work from one day to the next?
Industry veterans offer insights on the best upfitting and lifecycle management strategies, as well as reveal “game-changer” products for fleets. Plus, one fleet shares its successful upfitting approach.
Computer Aided Technology and Weather Guard developed a tool that helps fleets design the right upfit for their work vans.
Sustainability and fuel savings strategies vary greatly depending on each fleet’s operations and applications. Some motor carriers may even need to adopt multiple strategies and specs for different parts of their fleet. Three fleets with different operations share their sustainability and fuel economy tactics.
Airman Products' new Automated Landing Gear Deployment and Retraction Technology, with the flip of a switch, eliminates the manual cranking required to raise and lower a trailer’s landing gear, reducing driver exposure to a variety of musculoskeletal injuries.
BorgWarner’s Delco Remy 38MT+ and 39MT heavy-duty starters feature newly combined starter protection technologies to help protect against numerous failure modes and reduce vehicle downtime while optimizing the life of the starter.