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Commercial freight transportation is a machine-based business. Highly technical equipment and advanced engineering are at the center of supply chain and require constant innovation. Transport Topics equipment coverage focuses on the machines and other physical assets that make delivery possible. It looks closely at available truck, trailer, and chassis models, developments in the engineering space, and maintenance innovations and best practices. 

Business, Equipment

Caterpillar Sees Virus Pain Intensifying After Profit Trails

The world’s biggest maker of mining and construction equipment is predicting that the pain from the coronavirus crisis is far from over.

Joe Deaux | Bloomberg News
April 28, 2020
Business, Equipment, Fuel

Efforts to Prevent Clogged Diesel Particulate Filters Include Low-Ash Engine Oil, Ensuring Fuel Quality

As engine oil suppliers develop new formulations to protect diesel engines and enhance their efficiency, some are paying particularly close attention to the performance of exhaust aftertreatment systems.

Gregory Van Tighem | Special to Transport Topics
April 28, 2020
Business, Technology, Equipment

Mack Reports Parts Distribution Centers Operating as Normal

Mack Trucks announced it is encouraging customers and dealers to order parts as they normally would and in a normal quantity, and Mack parts distribution centers will continue to fulfill orders on a typical schedule.

April 27, 2020
Business, Equipment, Fuel

Clean Energy Fuels Offers Cost Calculator to Fleets

Clean Energy Fuels Corp. announced it launched an online calculator to estimate the cost of transitioning an individual vehicle or an entire fleet to natural gas from diesel fuel.

April 24, 2020
Government, Business, Equipment, Safety

Michigan’s Extended Order Keeps Auto Industry’s Restart in Limbo

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer extended her stay-home order another two weeks to May 15 and kept the state’s carmakers and suppliers in limbo over how soon they’ll be able to reopen.

April 24, 2020
Business, Equipment

East Offers Customized Rendering Trailers

Trailer maker East Manufacturing announced it customizes rendering trailers to meet the specific needs of an application.

April 24, 2020
Business, Technology, Equipment

New Technologies Target Trailer Efficiency

Class 8 power units may get all the attention, but trailers are coming into their own in terms of aerodynamic innovations that enhance fuel efficiency.

Phil Romba | Contributing Writer
April 24, 2020
Business, Equipment, Safety

Keeping Trucks Rolling Amid Pandemic

American Trucking Associations’ Technology & Maintenance Council is now serving as a conduit of information as to how maintenance operations can sustain, protect and facilitate trucking’s critical role in fighting the novel coronavirus pandemic.

Jack Legler | Technical Director, Technology & Maintenance Council
April 24, 2020
Technology, Equipment

Fan Drive Technology Is Evolving to Meet the Needs of Modern Engines

When exhaust-gas recirculation became the technology to meet the heavy-duty truck emissions standards, underhood temperatures skyrocketed and put extreme pressure on cooling fan drives and belts. Fleets now can spec a variety of variable-­speed and electron­ically controlled fan drives.

Steve Sturgess | Special to Transport Topics
April 24, 2020
Business, Equipment

US Durable Goods Orders Plunge Most Since 2014 on Pandemic

U.S. orders for durable goods declined in March by the most since 2014 as the coronavirus and slumping oil prices reverberated through the manufacturing sector and spurred cancelled orders for Boeing Co. airplanes.

Katia Dmitrieva | Bloomberg News
April 24, 2020