FedEx Corp.’s drive to reap the rewards of e-commerce is stirring anxiety among some of the company’s most important partners: the thousands of small businesses that handle its ground deliveries.
October 28, 2019BusinessTechnologyEquipment
ZF Announces OEM Launches for Automated Steering, New Transmission
ATLANTA — Component supplier ZF Group announced that its active steering technology and new automatic transmission soon will become available in North America.
October 27, 2019BusinessTechnologyEquipmentFuel
Kenworth, Toyota Partner on Hydrogen Fuel Cell Class 8 Trucks
ATLANTA — Kenworth Truck Co. announced it is collaborating with Toyota Motor North America to develop 10 heavy-duty zero-emission Kenworth T680s powered by Toyota hydrogen fuel cell electric powertrains.
October 27, 2019BusinessTechnologyEquipmentSafety
Great Dane Introduces ‘FleetPulse’ Smart Trailer System
ATLANTA — Great Dane has introduced FleetPulse, its new smart trailer telematics system that is the result of a three-year project. It is available now and intended to begin to prepare a foundation for trailers in the emerging world of electrification, autonomy and smart distribution centers.
October 27, 2019BusinessTechnologyEquipment
FlowBelow Announces Deals with Daimler, Navistar
ATLANTA — FlowBelow Aero Inc., a manufacturer of aerodynamic products for tractors and trailers, said it has secured deals with truck makers Daimler Trucks North America and Navistar Inc.
October 27, 2019BusinessTechnologyEquipment
Dana Announces Partnerships for Electric Vehicles
ATLANTA — Dana Inc. announced three partnerships intended to advance its electrified powertrain business, including one with an unidentified major North American commercial-vehicle manufacturer to supply complete e-powertrain systems for a medium-duty vehicle program beginning next year.
October 27, 2019BusinessTechnologyFuel
NACFE Run On Less Regional Demonstration Achieves 8.3 MPG Average
ATLANTA — Over the course of 18 days, trucks participating in a demonstration by the North American Council for Freight Efficiency showed significant improvements in fuel efficiency through investments in technology and skilled drivers.
October 27, 2019TechnologyEquipment
Avoid Aftertreatment Woes With Routine Preventive Maintenance
Heading off engine exhaust aftertreatment headaches can be as simple as doing preventive maintenance by the book, representatives of fleets and truck and engine makers said. Diesel particulate filtersand selective catalytic reduction systems have helped Class 8 trucks cut emissions of particulate matter, or soot, and nitrogen oxide compounds.
October 25, 2019BusinessTechnologyEquipmentSafety
Maximizing Truck Maintenance
Manufacturing first embraced Lean and Six Sigma techniques — tools and strategies to improve business processes — in the 1980s, and the concepts are gaining ground in truck maintenance shops. Those in the trucking industry who have applied Lean or Six Sigma processes said they can cut waste and increase their shops’ efficiency.
October 25, 2019TechnologyEquipment
Electric Trucks to Change How Equipment Is Spec’d
The brave new world of electric Class 8 trucks dawned in North America with the delivery of two battery-Âelectric Freightliner ÂeCascadia tractors to customers this past August. Penske Truck Leasing and NFI are placing the vehicles into revenue service. With electric-powered trucks, however, comes a fundamental shift in how tomorrow’s freight-hauling equipment will be specified.
October 25, 2019