Category: Trucking News

How Groupe Robert logs on to “The Internet of Trucks”

BOUCHERVILLE, PQ-- Groupe Robert, the only Canadian outfit among Heavy Duty Trucking Magazine's Top 50 Green Fleets of 2016, has made a huge investment in state-of-the-art ISAAC Instruments telemetry and telematics. Robert will install the ISAAC InControl system in 1,300 trucks. (ISAAC is the Quebec-based company that has actually applied for a patent on the phrase “The Internet of Trucks.”) "We opted for the ISAAC InControl solution because it allows us to increase our operational efficiency,” says Michel Robert, Robert's president and CEO. “Our objective is to optimize fuel economy and road safety through the real-time coaching of drivers. ...Read the rest of this story

Chevin appoints of global sales and marketing director

Chevin Fleet Solutions has announced the assignment of a new global sales and marketing director to drive its continued worldwide growth. David Gladding – formerly Chevin's UK sales director – has been awarded the new role, which will see him work to co-ordinate Chevin sales operations in all territories, further grow the company's sales teams and maintain its successes locally, regionally and globally.

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Mack Trucks offers new engine oil

OEM says its new CK-4 blend offers extended drain intervals up to an additional 15,000 miles.

Mack Trucks is introducing a new motor oil blend that it will use to factory-fill its 2017 engines: Mack Engine Oil EOS-4.5.

Depending on the application, the oil drain intervals for EOS-4.5 can be extended by an extra 15,000 miles compared with previous formulations, the OEM said – to 60,000, 50,000 and 40,000 miles, respectively, for long-haul, regional-haul and heavy-haul applications.

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