Category: Trucking News

It Takes Two

It tales both drivers and technology to get better fuel economy

As a fleet manager you may wonder where to focus your fuel-economy improvement efforts. Buying technology solutions or using your resources trying to change driver behavior? The answer is both.

You can have all the technology solutions you want but if your drivers don't use them properly or at all or if their other driving behavior is so aggressive it negates the fuel economy gains you've achieved through your technology investments your ROI on those investments may not be as attractive as you originally calculated.

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Minimizer unveils heavy-duty truck seats

Minimizer, which manufactures Poly Fenders, Custom Molded Floor Mats and Fast Flaps, is adding to its product line with its Heavy Duty (HD) Truck Seats.

“And trust us. These aren't your father's seats,” the company said.

“This isn't our core area, so we partnered with a global leader - Isringhausen – to produce a truck seat drivers will love,” Minimizer CEO Craig Kruckeberg said. “Nobody manufactures better truck seats than ISRI, and these stand up to the Minimizer Tested & Tortured reputation.”

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ZF Innovation Truck showcases remote parking feature

'Digital future' networks vehicle and infrastructure to improve safety, efficiency AACHEN, GERMANY. Looking to the “digital future” of transportation, ZF Friedrichshafen AG offered international media gathered here a preview of the ZF Innovation Truck 2016, a system designed to recognize its surroundings in three dimensions using sensor fusion, then to process the data and to directly execute the resulting commands using advanced “mechatronics,” including electrified drive and steering systems.

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