Power management company Eaton has created a new Aggressive Performance calibration for the company’s lineup of UltraShift PLUS and Fuller Advantage automated manual transmissions.
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Category: Equipment
Not your father’s shop
Everything’s changing. How about you?
Every March we put together an entire issue focused solely on the shop and have done so for the 32 years I’ve been at Fleet Owner. Reading through the feature stories in this issue, it suddenly struck me that everyone has been so focused on managing some truly massive changes in the trucking industry that we sometimes forget to appreciate just how pervasive and transformative those changes have been for your maintenance operations.
Not your father’s shop
Everything’s changing. How about you?
Every March we put together an entire issue focused solely on the shop and have done so for the 32 years I’ve been at Fleet Owner. Reading through the feature stories in this issue, it suddenly struck me that everyone has been so focused on managing some truly massive changes in the trucking industry that we sometimes forget to appreciate just how pervasive and transformative those changes have been for your maintenance operations.
Maintenance Bay: DIY parts and paint
Manager: Jeff Wessels, maintenance division chief
Company: Ryder System Inc.
Operation: Installation Materiel Maintenance Activity (IMMA) Allied Trades team, Fort McCoy, WI
PROBLEM:
When you’re tasked to help provide logistics support to any …
3D-printed spare parts
The future, or just a pipe dream?
Considering the sensation that 3d printing, a.k.a. additive manufacturing, has created in the public’s mind for the last several ye…
Hardware Report: Refrigeration
Regulation is affecting reefer systems
Regulatory measures are impacting a refrigerated carrier’s choice in transport refrigeration systems. As the Food Safety…
Safety tech in the battle for zero
Implementing advanced safety tech can minimize collisions
Today, the goal at McKenzie Tank Lines is the Holy Grail: zero avoidable collisions among its 275-tractor, 680-tr…
Chaos strikes again
Truck tires are going to get more expensive
It’s been years since tire manufacturers have raised prices, so the recent announcements of 7-8% increases across the boa…
Right to Repair: Not an easy fix
A year into the ‘landmark’ right-to-repair agreement designed to provide independent truck service centers the same diagnostics and repair information the dealer networks receive (ensuring that truck operators have service options a…
Green Fleet of the Month: Award-winning ways
Hirschbach Motor Lines recognized for its energy efficiency efforts
when hirschbach motor lines was named as a recipient of a 2016 SmartWay Excellence Award from the U.S. …