Equipment Mountain Driving 101: How truck brakes work, and how they overheat This video is a primer on brakes. Equipment Editor Jim Park cover the basics on how they work and what happens when brake drums get hot. Hot brakes can…
Equipment Mountain Driving 101: Inspecting brakes before heading downhill When driving across the prairies or the plains, you’d probably never notice if a brake or two were out of adjustment, but you can’t take brakes for granted when…
Equipment Mountain Driving 101: Understanding signs, and using an AMT Some grades have signs that display a profile of the hill; some signage offers ambiguous warnings like, “Use Lower Gear” or “Slow Down,” but lower than what or how…
Equipment Mountain Driving 101: Match the truck gear and speed to the grade Mountain driving instructor Andy Roberts and equipment editor Jim Park talk their way through a downhill descent, explaining gear selection, desired road speed. They make two trips down…
Equipment Preparing your fleet for the Canadian ELD Mandate The June 2021 deadline is approaching fast, and carriers need to get ready. How should you prepare to effectively comply with the Canadian ELD rules? What are the steps…
Equipment Focus On: Mack MD Series Mack Trucks’ new MD Series is the company’s first medium-duty offering since 2003. It was introduced in January 2020, and then the pandemic hit. That delayed the start of…
Transportation Operation Safe Driver Week with Christopher Turner, CVSA Operation Safe Driver Week, an annual initiative led by the Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance, begins July 12. And just like last year, enforcement officers will place a…
Transportation Focus On: Mack Electric LR Early in 2020, Mack Trucks handed the keys to its first fully electric refuse truck to the New York City Department of Sanitation. The LR Electric is North…
Transportation The Essentials: #ThankATrucker Essential. It’s the word people have come to use when describing truck drivers — the men and women who remain on the job during these days of Covid-19.
Focus On: Mitsubishi Fuso eCanter There are only a few hundred Mitsubishi Fuso eCanters on the planet, but there were two of them at the 2020 Work Truck Show in Indianapolis this year. Equipment…
Equipment Focus On: Stoneridge swaps mirrors for monitors From the driver's perspective, Stoneridge's MirrorEye system is simple enough, but there's a lot going on in the background of this technology designed to replace traditional mirrors.