Looking Toward the Future of Truck Bodies
Innovative, new technologies and advances in engineering are creating lighter, stronger, and more fuel-efficient truck bodies than ever before.
Innovative, new technologies and advances in engineering are creating lighter, stronger, and more fuel-efficient truck bodies than ever before.
Today’s truck fleet managers have the option to go alternative with propane autogas and compressed natural gas. These alt fuels are a way to keep costs down and be sustainable.
New developments, technologies, and trends in hybrid-electric, medium-duty trucks could give fleet managers the incentive they need to take a closer look at how hybrid options could help reduce overall costs.
The Kenworth T880 is especially suited for a variety of vocational fleet applications, including dump, mixer, refuse, and heavy-haul applications. The Kenworth T880 comes standard with the 12.9L PACCAR MX-13 engine.
New hybrid off-road equipment promises to reduce fuel consumption, but how long will it take to pay back the added cost?
A combination of standardization, flexibility, partnerships, and collaboration have been the recipe for the DISH fleet’s success.
The redesigned 2014-MY Subaru Forester is the fourth generation of the five-passenger crossover SUV. This model is currently being utilized by fleets in the pharmaceutical, insurance, medical equipment, food service, and television news industries.
The Nissan Rogue is the No. 2 selling vehicle in the automaker's lineup, behind the Nissan Altima, and sales for the crossover have nearly doubled from the 2008 model-year to 144,921 units sold through September 2013, with 2013 sales up 13.6 percent to date.
Coca-Cola partnered with XL Hybrids to upfit 100 Chevrolet Express service vans with the XL3 parallel hybrid-electric drive system. The new system will increase the miles the beverage company is able to drive per gallon by 20 to 25 percent.
For the iconic C-SPAN, its Ford Transit Connect local content vehicles (LCVs) are the wheels driving a media project that is mapping out the literary and historical riches of cities across the U.S.
While most of the early problems have been engineered out of the exhaust gas recirculation systems on today’s clean diesel engines, corroded coolers, stuck valves and other problems still plague owners of older equipment.
Although work trucks are typically smaller and lighter than Class 8 freight haulers, often they are more complex and take more work to design and assemble. Work trucks are built to carry tools, parts, expendable supplies and other equipment that its driver or crew needs to accomplish a job.
The 1,400-vehicle nationwide fleet lowered its total cost of ownership, increased safety, improved load capacity, and boosted driver morale after moving from smaller trucks up to ½-ton pickups.
Federal rules defining commercial vehicles have changed. If you're not compliant, getting stopped by the authorities is no way to find out.
This pest control company cycles fleet every three years to best match the vehicle with ever-changing job requirements.
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