
The report will be based on the TMC’s vehicle maintenance reporting standards, and will track parts and labor expenditures and trends throughout North America.
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Lack of communication, improper diagnosis and parts availability were cited as one of the biggest causes of repair delays, according to panelists at an American Trucking Associations’ Technology & Maintenance Council meeting.
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ATA’s Technology & Maintenance Council will host its Transportation Technology Exhibition in-person during TMC’s 2021 Fall Meeting from Sept. 12-16 in Cleveland.
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Bob Wessels and Chuck Blake, despite their competitive positions, understood the need for "real world" fuel economy testing that fleets could believe. The pair worked side by side for a couple of decades pioneering reliable and repeatable test methods. Bob and Chuck accumulated more than a few stories over the years, and they share some of them on this episode of HDT Talks Trucking.
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A study to evaluate trailer owners’ adoption of intelligence products and services will be conducted by eSmartt and presented at the ATA's Technology & Maintenance Council annual meeting in April.
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Smart Trailers are upending how truck fleets do business. These formerly brainless boxes are now providing insights and intelligence to fleets that help improve efficiency and productivity while making fleets proactive rather than reactive. Paul Menig of Business Accelerants discusses where this technology can take us, and what we'll need to do to get there.
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Registration is now open for the Technology & Maintenance Council Annual Meeting and Transportation Technology Expo in Orlando, Florida, in April.
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American Trucking Associations and the Technology & Maintenance Council have named Clifford Roberson of Tyson Foods the first Trailer Technician Superstar as part of National Technician Appreciation Week.
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Frustrated with the quality of technician talent your local school is churning out? Maybe you need to get more involved with the school to help solve the problem, rather than blaming the training providers and its graduates.
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The choice of trailer components such as suspensions, sliders, and wheel ends, is pretty complex – and spring suspensions are making a comeback in some areas.
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