Confronting the Hidden Enemy Winter weather forces municipalities to cover highways with harsh road salt. While salt makes winter driving safer, it creates a severe chemical hazard for metal truck parts. Fleet managers routinely struggle with rust jacking, which destroys brake linings prematurely. This hidden ... Read More »

If your fleet operates anywhere near the West Coast, emissions compliance can feel like a secondary nightmare. Keeping track of changing state rules takes a lot of time and effort. However, Zonar Systems just announced a major regulatory victory that makes life much easier for ... Read More »

For many private and over-the-road truck fleets, maintenance has traditionally followed a simple rule: service the vehicle when the calendar or odometer says it is time. Preventive maintenance is still essential, but today’s fleets have access to a more precise approach. Condition-based maintenance uses real-time ... Read More »

The trucking industry is always looking for new ways to make heavy-duty vehicles last longer and work better. Mack Trucks recently announced the Mack ImpactShield, a huge improvement for Class 8 trucks. This new feature is the first time a truck of this size will ... Read More »

AI is showing up everywhere these days. It writes emails, recommends movies, answers customer service chats, and occasionally makes people wonder if their toaster is judging them. Now it is also showing up in dashcams. For truck and van fleet operators, that raises a fair ... Read More »

For growing fleet operators, maintenance is rarely just a repair issue. It is an operations issue, a cost-control issue, a vendor-management issue, and a driver-safety issue all at once. The larger the fleet becomes, the harder it is to manage repairs, approvals, invoices, and vendor ... Read More »

For a long time, truck drivers and fleet managers have lived in a world filled with clipboards and stacks of yellow carbon-copy paper. Every time a driver starts or ends their day, they have to perform a walk-around inspection. These reports, known as Driver Vehicle ... Read More »

Moving Beyond Just Fixing What's Broken For generations, the standard way to maintain a fleet of vocational trucks, like the Mack concrete mixers or dump trucks common in construction, was "reactive." This simply means that a part was fixed only after it had already broken. ... Read More »

Managing a large fleet is hard enough without paying for every “helpful suggestion” a repair shop tosses onto a work order like parmesan on bad pasta. That is exactly the problem 3S Services tackled. The Texas-based company operates more than 1,100 vehicles statewide, and before ... Read More »

The Hidden Geometry of Better Fuel Mileage Many fleet managers look at fuel costs as something they cannot control. They watch the prices at the pump and hope for the best. However, there is a secret way to save money that has nothing to do ... Read More »