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Heavy Trucks: Class 7 & 8

Tips to Keep Vocational Trucks Rolling

As truck fleets age, driver inspections and preventative maintenance will keep you in motion.

Establish a preventive maintenance schedule and modify it if necessary. If your maintenance inspections are finding issues, this is telling you that you are not seeing the vehicles often enough or you are using cut-off thresholds that are too close to the limits.

Heavy Trucks: Class 7 & 8

Autocar Brand Celebrates 124 Years of Vocational Truck Innovation

Autocar engineers trucks that support critical American infrastructure sectors such as refuse, material handling, concrete and logistics.

The Autocar DC-64 severe-duty conventional truck.

Trucks & Transportation

What Are the Implications of Rerating Vehicle GVWR and GAWR?

NTEA – The Work Truck Association

It’s important to understand how the ratings are established and the implications of changing them before moving forward with rerating a vehicle.

OEMs have the authority to determine final ratings for a new vehicle. It’s important to understand how the ratings are established and the implications of changing them before doing so.

Trucks & Transportation

T.J. Reed named President of Daimler Trucks Remarketing

Daimler Truck North America

Reed will oversee all activities for Daimler Trucks Remarketing, including sales, marketing and distribution, and be responsible for leading the SelecTrucks brand of used semi-truck retailers.

T.J Reed has been named president of Daimler Trucks Remarketing

Heavy Trucks: Class 7 & 8

International MV Series Medium-duty Vehicles

Navistar International Corporation

Medium-duty vehicles feature an aerodynamic hood and breakaway mirrors to provide enhanced visibility for drivers.

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Fleet Maintenance

Cold Weather Is Coming – Prepare Trucks with These Top 12 Tips

Bendix Commercial Vehicle Systems LLC

Keep your truck fleet operating safely by maintaining wheel-ends, air systems, and electronics.

With winter approaching, Bendix Commercial Vehicle Systems offers advice on how you can prepare your truck fleet.

Heavy Trucks: Class 7 & 8

FTR Reports Preliminary North American Class 8 Net Orders Fell in September to 28,100 Units as OEMs Delay Order Entry

Preliminary North American Class 8 net orders for September fell 29% month over month as supply chain disruptions continue.

The order number is not a true indicator of 2022 truck demand. The OEMs are delaying entering orders until the supply-chain situation is clearer.

Heavy Trucks: Class 7 & 8

Western Star Expands X-Series Vocational Truck Line

Building on the 49X launch last year, Western Star releases the 47X to reach new vocational applications.

With a standard 111.6-in. BBC or optional 110.8-in. BBC, which is 10-in shorter than the 49X, the Western Star 47X is well suited to applications that require a shorter overall vehicle length to meet federal or local bridge law requirements, such as mixers or super dumps.

Heavy Trucks: Class 7 & 8

Mack Trucks Puts a Premium on Maximum Uptime

Mack Trucks Inc.

Mack Trucks is offering the comprehensive Mack Premium Service Agreement for its Class 8 models.

Mack Trucks announces the new Mack Premium Service Agreement, a comprehensive maintenance program that simplifies maintenance management and helps increase uptime, optimize vehicle safety and performance and improve cost of ownership for Mack Anthem, Mack Pinnacle, Mack Granite, Mack TerraPro and Mack LR customers.

Heavy Trucks: Class 7 & 8

FTR Reports North American Class 8 Truck Orders Leaped 51% in August

The August 2021 activity was +91% year-over-year with Class 8 orders now totaling 456,000 units for the previous 12 months.

Preliminary North American Class 8 net orders for August rose 51% from July to 39,400 units. The August 2021 activity was +91% y/y with Class 8 orders now totaling 456,000 units for the previous 12 months.

Trucks & Transportation

Tight Supply Market Drives Strong Demand for Equipment and Trucks

Ritchie Bros. Asset Solutions

Supply chain disruptions and microchip shortage create low supply environment.

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Pickup Trucks & Vans

Ram Upgrades 2022 ProMaster with New Levels of Safety, Comfort, Connectivity and Efficiency

RAM Trucks, division of Chrysler Corporation

Standard safety features that include Full-Speed Forward Collision Warning, post collision braking, Drowsiness Detection, Traffic Sign Recognition, rear camera with dynamic gridlines, push-button starter and an electric parking brake.

The 2022 Ram ProMaster features the next-generation 3.6-liter Pentastar V-6 engine and is now paired to a segment-exclusive TorqueFlite nine-speed automatic transmission.

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