Meritor embraces “fast food-type” model for parts pilot project

EDMONTON, Alta. - It’s just like Domino’s Pizza: service within a certain window of time, or you get compensated. Except it isn’t pizza that is being delivered in this case; it’s remanufactured components to help your...

Mack introduces GuardDog Connect telematics program

ALLENTOWN, Penn. -- Mack Trucks has announced the launch of GuardDog Connect, a new telematics program the company says will reduce downtime and streamline the repair process.

Natural gas, suspensions and powertrain receive attention from Mack

ALLENTOWN, Penn. -- The construction truck market remains mired in a slump, but Mack Trucks hasn’t been sitting on the sidelines, waiting for it to recover. The company outlined several new product developments at a recent press event,...

The Truxpo Gambit

He’d been looking forward to it for months, and now it was finally here - Truxpo Can. It was a biannual tradeshow for the trucking industry in which every manufacturer and service provider in and around the edges of the business came...

Proposed bill would undo changes to US HoS restart provision

ARLINGTON, Va. -- The American Trucking Associations (ATA) is applauding a proposed bill that would put the brakes on the new hours-of-service restart provision that was implemented in July.

PIT eliminates the guesswork for fleets

CHARLOTTETOWN, P.E.I. ­– Performance Innovation Transport (PIT), a division of FPinnovations, one of the largest non-profit, private scientific research centres in the world, tests new technologies and best practices to help fleet...

New HoS rules costing drivers, fleets productivity with no safety benefit: Schneider

GREEN BAY, Wis. -- The new hours-of-service rules implemented in the US July 1 have reduced solo driver productivity by 3.1%, and team operations by 4.3%, according to data compiled by Schneider National.

Canadian Freightliner dealers among winners of Alliance Truck Parts contest

PORTLAND, Ore. -- Several Canadian Freightliner dealers are among the winners of an Alliance Truck Parts contest that will send them to the season-ending Nascar Nationwide race in Homestead, Fla.

ATA’s Graves outlines the major issues that will change trucking in years ahead

ORLANDO, Fla – With Bob Dylan’s “The Times They Are a Changin” booming into the Marriott World Centre conference hall, American Trucking Associations president Bill Graves took to the stage this morning and addressed how...

Navistar launches open-architecture remote diagnostics program

ORLANDO, Fla. -- Navistar has announced an open architecture remote diagnostics program that works with a fleets’ existing telematics provider and covers all makes of vehicles.

Detroit Connect expanded to cover mixed fleets

ORLANDO, Fla. -- Detroit Diesel Corp. announced that it is making its Detroit Connect telematics program available to mixed fleets, beginning early next year.

For new global leader of Daimler Trucks, it’s all about product

ORLANDO, Fla. -- Dr. Wolfgang Bernhard, the head of Daimler Trucks globally, was introduced to the North American trade press today, during a roundtable discussion held at the American Trucking Associations’ Management Conference &...

BC Trucking Association seeks immigrant drivers

LANGLEY, BC. —The BC Trucking Association (BCTA) has developed a new skills assessment tool called IDRIVE and is looking for 25 recent immigrants with professional truck-driving experience to participate in a pilot test to be scheduled in...

Decisiv develops Days Out of Service impact calculator

GLEN ALLEN, Va. -- Decisiv has developed a Days Out of Service impact calculator fleets can use to measure the cost of downtime to their operations.

Hours-of-service rules top concern of US trucking executives

ORLANDO, Fla. -- The new hours-of-service rules that went into effect earlier this year rank as the top concern among US trucking executives.