Data Analytics Help Fleets Lower Costs
Fuel prices have overtaken driver shortage as the top concern expressed by drivers and motor carriers as reported by ATRI 2022 Top Industry Issues survey. Also, when fuel rises quickly over a short period, it…
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Heavy Duty Truck Maintenance News Archives
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Truckers Overlook Tires
Driving a vehicle safely is a combination of several abilities. Hand-eye coordination and fine motor skills are likely a couple of the most important, but there’s a host of others. For example, vehicle maintenance; namely…
Rising CPI Pressuring Fleet Operations
Rising CPI pressuring fleet operations, effecting cost of financing equipment and other cost such as maintenance and repair. Knowing how to navigate this, as well as understanding a fleet’s options, can potentially save millions toward the organization’s bottom line.
XPO Increasing Capacity
XPO Logistics, a provider of freight transportation services, has opened two less-than-truckload (LTL) terminals to increase customer service capacity in its North American network. In addition, the company increased production capacity at its trailer manufacturing…
M&K Adds 9 Dealerships
M&K Truck Centers of Byron Center, Mich., has purchased nine dealerships, an e-commerce parts sales operation, and a fire and rescue products company, the firm announced recently. M&K employs more than 900 people across 29…
Kenworth Acquires PacLease of Maryland
Kenworth Mid Atlantic has announced the acquisition of PacLease of Maryland, a commercial truck leasing and rental business that will operate at its four Kenworth dealerships. The new operation will be known as All Roads Rental and Leasing…
Repair Sector Forms Trade Group
Repair ACES (Association for Commercial Equipment Solutions) announced its launch at the Diesel Laptops Virtual Truck Repair Expo on May 7-8. The association has been created “by industry professionals who saw a need and had…
Vac Trucks Require ‘Constant Vigilance’
Vacuum trucks are tank trucks equipped with a high-powered vacuum pump that sucks up solids, fluids, sludge or slurry at high speed through a hose. In the oil patch, their central task is to clean…
Truckers Should Avoid Low Quality DEF
Adding diesel exhaust fluid (DEF) to trucks has become fairly routine, despite some of the anxiety that came along with the debut of this new fluid a decade ago, needed to cut emissions using selective…
AI Enhances Transportation Efficiency
When people start talking about artificial intelligence (AI), it’s easy to get bogged down in terms like neural nets, algorithms, machine learning and more. But you don’t really need to understand all that to take…
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