Accuride wheels shed weight

Accuride is shedding weight off its Accu-Lite family of aluminum wheels, and has also unveiled…

Maxion unveils lighter wheel, telematics system

Maxion’s newest wheel incorporates a round hand hole, rather than the D-shaped openings on the company’s other wheels. ATLANTA, Ga. — Maxion Wheels has unveiled what it’s referring to as…

Kenworth offering Alcoa Dura-Black wheels

  Kenworth is now offering Alcoa’s new Dura-Black wheels, delivering a bold style for heavy-duty and medium-duty conventional trucks. The new designs are lighter and stronger than steel…

Alcoa wheels in a ‘menacing’ black

Alcoa’s Dura-Black wheels are bringing a new sense of style to forged aluminum wheels. The wheel’s face is in a “menacing matte black”, while rim flange and mounting…

Accuride unveils set-and-forget hub system

ATLANTA, GA - Accuride vice president - OEM sales, trailer, and municipal Neil McIrvin still remembers a fleet owner who asked why the industry couldn't make a wheel end system that lasts the life of a trailer or truck.

Accuride rolls forward with global push

ATLANTA, GA - Accuride expects its deal to acquire German-based Mefro Wheels will close in the fourth quarter of this year, but the maker of wheels and wheel end components is already eyeing further growth around the globe.

Ep 10: Trailer Bogie

Editor John G. Smith and Samantha Sarasin, Ontario Ministry of Transportation enforcement officer and provincial Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance (CVSA) instructor, stop at the trailer bogie assembly, where enforcement teams are looking at air lines, sliders, frames and more.

Accuride completes acquisition of KIC

EVANSVILLE, IN - Accuride has announced that it has completed its acquisition of Vancouver, Washington-based wheel and wheel end component supplier KIC.

Accuride extends coating warranties

LAS VEGAS, NV - Accuride is boosting the warranties on its Steel Armor and EverSteel wheel coatings for steel wheels manufactured on or after January 1.

Runaway and Repeat

I'm experiencing a new day and new job at Today's Trucking, but there is no escaping the sense of déjà vu. Yes, I still lean on my GPS to find the office, and I think it will be several months before I remember the phone number, but something feels oddly familiar. Too familiar.

Are Wheel-Offs Back?

Oh, no... are we slipping? It seems that truck and trailer wheel separations have hit the press again, at least in Ontario. This really isn't good.

Minister Concerned About Truck Wheel Separations

TORONTO, ON -- Truck wheel separations have gotten the attention of one government official who is calling on the trucking industry to step up and address the problem before more people are hurt or killed.

Truck Wheels Maker Alcoa Splitting Into Two Companies

NEW YORK - A company known for its truck wheels, among other lighter weight metal products, plans to separate into two independent, publicly traded companies. The move by Alcoa Inc. will result in a yet to be named company, what it currently calls "the value-add company," that will include its transportation, rolled, engineered and construction products. The other will keep the Alcoa name and will include its bauxite-mining, alumina-refining and aluminum-production businesses. The transaction, expected to be completed in the second half of 2016, has been unanimously approved by the Alcoa board of directors. According to the Wall Street Journal, the move comes in the wake of depressed aluminum prices as China has flooded the market with lower metals prices, and the company seeing its stock price fall 43% this year.

Are we doing enough?

When it comes to mechanical integrity, satisfying the law just doesn't cut it. From the June 2006 issue.

Wheels Buys MSM Trucking Group

BOLTON, ON. - McCarron's MSM is being bought by Mississauga-based Wheels-Group.