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Volvo Trucks North America and Mack Trucks are introducing a new model to truck ownership and maintenance that will ensure trucks are better maintained based on their actual needs, at a consistent, virtually all-in price.
Volvo revealed its new Volvo B…
Mack and Volvo have greatly increased the number of updates fleet owners can complete over the air.
They’ve been offering over-the-air (OTA) updates since 2018, but initially only focusing on the three ECUs covering the engine, aftertreatment system an…
A panel discussion at the Technology & Maintenance Council’s spring meeting revealed that some things won’t change when it comes to insuring autonomously driven trucks. Others will. And there’s still a lot of unknowns.
Some of the liability for cra…
It takes 900 of today’s heavy trucks to create the emissions just one did in the 1980s. But regulators, shippers and employees are still pushing the trucking industry to completely eliminate its emissions.
The challenges that fleets have to overcome al…
Even before SAF-Holland acquired Haldex, the two companies were working together on integrating each other’s products.
SAF-Holland was already one of Haldex’s biggest global customers and talks were in progress on pairing SAF’s air disc brakes with Hal…
The Phillips Family of Companies has launched a new business unit to accelerate the adoption of new technologies that can benefit from Phillips’ OEM relationships, expertise and production capabilities.
Phillips Innovations has come out of the gate wit…
The North American Council for Freight Efficiency (NACFE) has dubbed the current part of the trucking industry’s journey toward decarbonization as the “messy middle,” but it doesn’t want that to be viewed negatively.
“It shouldn’t have a negative conno…
J.B. Hunt driver Andrew Waits of Tacoma, Wash., was named Goodyear’s 2022 Highway Hero at the Technology & Maintenance Council meetings of the American Trucking Associations.
Waits was driving along I-405 in Washington last year when he witnessed a…
Fleets using the latest technologies to track driver performance are likely already using machine learning, though some may not even know it.
Machine learning (ML) is often confused with artificial intelligence (AI). However, Brian Filip, chief technol…
Conditions for U.S. shippers improved in December, with the FTR Shippers Conditions Index jumping to 10.32 from a November reading of 3.
Industry analyst FTR says the improvement was largely due to a huge drop in fuel prices in December, but lower frei…