Chief announced its Heavy-Duty Rivet Gun puts out 10 metric tons of compression force to install new rivets or press out existing rivets in the thick steel and aluminum used to build heavy-duty truck cabs. It also uses 8 metric tons of tension force to hydraulically retract the punching tool from metal sheets.
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...Read the rest of this storyTread patterns are available for any type of operation from low rolling resistance drive tires to vocational tires. Photo by Jim Park
">Tread patterns are available for any type of operation from low rolling resistance drive tires to vocational tires. Photo by Jim Park
">Retreading can extend casing life two, three or even four times, thus significantly lowering the lifecycle cost of the tire. While retread costs vary with the type of tread, the quality of the casing and the contract arrangement you have with the retreader, prices are roughly 1/3 to 1/2 that of a new tire.
If you keep an eye on casing value, you'll know that casings sold seem to fetch a fraction of what they are truly worth. You might get $90 to $125 for a good casing in a tight market, but retreading the casing gives you a virtually new tire with a couple of hundred thousand miles of life left in it -- and you can often retread several times. Where does the real value lay?
"A casing is a terrible thing to waste since at least 75% of the cost of a tire is in the casing, notes Ron Elliott, marketing and communications manager, Marangoni Tread North America.
Elliot says the key to a successful retreading program is to start with a quality casing, and then work to protect your casing investment with good maintenance, particularly pressure management.
"Most casings are designed and manufactured to be highly repairable and retreadable to last more than one life," Elliott says. "A proper tire management program will help ensure the very lowest total running cost."
If retreads get a bum rap, it's probably because the tire has been neglected.
It hardly needs to be said, but proper inflation and regular inflation checks will keep all tires in service longer. And of course retreads suffer from the stigma of being assumed to explode more often than new tires. Several tire debris studies have all but disproven ...Read the rest of this story
Dica ProStack Cribbing provides utility crews and municipal fleet operators with a solution for operating in uneven ground conditions.
Working along sloped roadsides or against curbs, utility crews can be faced with setting outrigger-enabled equipment on sloped or uneven ground. ProStack Cribbing has been developed with an interlocking design that provides additional height under outrigger floats when setting up in uneven ground conditions.
ProStack Cribbing has three basic parts: a basic outrigger pad, interlocking cribbing blocks and a high-friction top grip pad. The base ProStack Outrigger Pad is manufactured with a pyramid-shaped surface that interlocks with the cribbing blocks. On top of the base pad, operators stack layers of two 6-by-12-by-24-inch cribbing blocks with the pyramid-shape surface, that lock into the base pad. Lastly, a ProStack Grip Pad is placed on top of the stack to protect the pyramid surface on the cribbing blocks and provide a high friction surface for the outrigger foot.
ProStack is available in three Cribbing Kit options that include either a DR36-2, DR42-2, and DR48-2 base outrigger pad, along with four cribbing blocks and one grip pad. ProStack individual parts are also available for purchase, including Cribbing Wedges, which can be used on sloped surfaces to establish a level foundation under the ProStack Outrigger Pad.
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Waymo, the company spun-off by Google that has been developing autonomous-driving technology, confirmed it is testing a self-driving truck.
The story was first reported by BuzzFeed on June 1.
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...Read the rest of this storyVolvo Trucks North America (VTNA) recently showed off its new VNR regional truck model during a ride and drive event in Winston-Salem, NC. A total of four VNR models in three configurations were made available to attending journalists: two VNR 640 6x2 highway tractors configured with mid-roof sleepers pulling 53-ft. flatbeds loaded out with concrete blocks for gross vehicle weights of 77,700 lbs.; a VNR 300 4x2 in straight truck configuration, fitted with a dry van box and hydraulic lift gate; and a VNR 300 4x2 tractor pulling a 28-ft. pup trailer.
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...Read the rest of this storyWal-Mart Stores said it is testing the use of company associates to deliver online orders to customers' homes.
“Not only can this cut shipping costs and get packages to their final destinations faster and more efficiently, it creates a special win-win-win for customers, associates and the business,” Marc Love, president and CEO of Wal-Mart's e-commerce division in the United States, wrote in a June 1 blog post announcing the move.
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...Read the rest of this storyWalmart Stores said it is testing the use of company associates to deliver online orders to customers' homes.
“Not only can this cut shipping costs and get packages to their final destinations faster and more efficiently, it creates a special win-win-win for customers, associates and the business,” Marc Love, president and CEO of Walmart's e-commerce division in the United States, wrote in a June 1 blog post announcing the move.
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