The good news is that Brake Safety Day, the Commercial Vehicle Safety Administration's unannounced inspection, which took place on May 3, 2017, found that 79% of the vehicles inspected had no major vehicle violations.
During the blitz more than 9,500 inspection were conducted — 8,140 in the U.S. and 1,384 in Canada.
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">The Truck Renting and Leasing Association has announced the latest recipients of its Industry Scholarship Program, which awards up to four scholarships per cycle to TRALA-member company employees or their children to pursue vocational training as maintenance technicians.
Those awarded scholarships from the June 1 application deadline are:
Zachary Gabris, member company Hogan Truck Leasing in St. Louis. Mo.Johnny Gizar, member company Utility Trailer Manufacturing Company in Clearfield, Utah.Kelly Holdredge, member company Kenworth Sales Company in Idaho Falls, Idaho.Jeremy Lyda, member company Aim NationaLease in Girard, OhioScholarship recipients each receive up to $5,000 in scholarships over two years, if they maintain a minimum grade point average in their vocational training.
Scholarship eligibility requires that:
Applicants must be employees of TRALA member companies in North America, or dependents/children of full-time employees of TRALA member companies in North America.Applicants must be pursuing a course of study related to the truck transportation industry at an accredited two-year vocational program. Examples include, but are not limited to, Heavy Duty Truck Technology, Diesel Technology, Industrial Mechanics and Medium/Heavy Vehicle Technology.Click here for more information.
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...Read the rest of this storyA new study found that adaptive cruise control systems can help maintian mobility, safety, driver comfort, and fuel consumption in platooning operations. Photo: Peloton
A new study found that adaptive cruise control systems can help maintian mobility, safety, driver comfort, and fuel consumption in platooning operations. Photo: Peloton
Is a new, expanded role for adaptive cruise control systems on the horizon? A recent technical paper by engineers Zijia Zhong, Joyoung Lee and Liuhui Zhao at the Newark College of Engineering, New Jersey Institute of Technology, published by the Transportation Research Board suggests so.
According to the paper, titled "Multiobjective Optimization Framework for Cooperative Adaptive Cruise Control Vehicles in the Automated Vehicle Platooning Environment," cooperative adaptive cruise control has been proven in tests to be an effect means of automated longitudinal control technology with possible vehicle platooning applications in the near future.
The paper's authors have proposed an automated longitudinal control framework based on multiobjective optimization (MOOP) for CACC by taking into consideration four vehicle optimization onbjectives: mobility, safety, driver comfort, and fuel consumption.
The paper notes that of the target time headways that have been tested, the proposed CACC platoon control method achieved the best performance with 0.9- and 0.6-s target time headways. Compared with a non-optimization-based CACC, the MOOP CACC achieved 98%, 93%, 42%, and 33% objective value reductions of time headway deviation, unsafe condition, jitter, and instantaneous fuel consumption, respectively.
In comparison with a single-objective-optimization-based approach, which optimized only one of the four proposed objectives, it was shown that the MOOP-based CACC maintained a good balance between all of the objective functions and achieved Pareto optimality for the entire platoon.
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...Read the rest of this storyFleetPride employees celebrate the opening of the company's first New Orleans branch.
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">FleetPride employees celebrate the opening of the company's first New Orleans branch.
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"> FleetPride has opened its first branch in the New Orleans metropolitan area. This branch is FleetPride's third location in Louisiana, bringing its southeastern U.S. network to 64 locations."Adding New Orleans to the FleetPride footprint represents our commitment to growth," said Jason Price, FleetPride senior vice president of operations. "The five team members at this location represent nearly 60 years of combined experience in the heavy-duty parts industry and are committed to serving the needs of the customer."
The new branch is located at 6500 Powell Street in New Orleans. An official grand opening ceremony is scheduled for Thursday, September 14.
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...Read the rest of this storyOakland Raiders defensive end Khalil Mack signed a sponsorship agreement with Mack Trucks to promote its next-generation highway model. Photo: Mack Trucks
">How many times have you heard someone compare a football player to a Mack truck? "Built like a Mack truck." "Hits like a Mack truck." It seems inevitable that at some point Mack's marketing team would think about teaming up with a football player. And when the football player also is named Mack? Well, how can you resist that?
Oakland Raiders defensive end Khalil Mack, the 2016 NFL Defensive Player of the Year, has signed a sponsorship agreement with Mack Trucks to promote the Sept. 13 debut of its next-generation highway model.
“This partnership makes sense on a number of levels,” explained John Walsh, vice president of global marketing and brand management for Mack Trucks, in the announcement. “We obviously share the same name, but what really brought us together was shared values – the fundamentally American values of hard work, honesty and humility. In fact, he reached out to us at the same time that we were talking about reaching out to him.”
Oakland Raiders defensive end Khalil Mack signed a sponsorship agreement with Mack Trucks to promote its next-generation highway model. Photo: Mack Trucks
">The deal even made ESPN, which reported that the idea actually started with Golden State Warriors power forward Draymond Green. "He just texted me one day and said, 'You should do a deal with Mack,'" Mack said.
Mack, originally from Fort Pierce, Florida, attended the University at Buffalo. In 2013, he was named the Mid-American Conference Defensive Player of the Year, becoming the first Buffalo football player to win the award in the school's history. He also set a number of school and NCAA records, including being tied for first in tackles for a loss and most forced fumbles.
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">Double Coin and CMA (China Manufacturers Alliance) has opened a new manufacturing facility in Thailand that will produce truck, bus, industrial, and off-road tires for the North American market.
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">“This is Double Coin's first manufacturing plant outside of China and one of a total of six plants,” said Tim Phillips, vice president – marketing and operations for Double Coin. "This plant needed to be built in order to meet the growing demand for Double Coin tires as well as our continued plans to expand our product line.”Built on a 3.6-million-square-foot site, the new facility can annually produce more than 2.5 million truck, bus and radial tires, as well as 50,000 off-road tires.
It has also introduced a level of automation that halves the number of employees needed in a traditional tire factory.
This article by the staff of award-winning Canadian publication Today's Trucking appears here via a cooperative editorial-sharing agreement between HDT and TT.
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...Read the rest of this storyThe spot truckload freight market returned to pre-holiday activity levels during the week ending July 15 as the number of posted loads increased 35% and truck posts added 28%, said DAT Solutions, which operates the DAT network of load boards.
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