Truck and Trailer Equipment Articles

Kenworth to Produce Liquefied Natural Gas Vehicles →

Kenworth Truck Company will expand its presence in the growing market for environmentally friendly, liquefied natural gas (LNG) vehicles by beginning production of Kenworth T800 LNG trucks at its manufacturing facility in Renton, Wash., in 2009. Under an exclusive agreement with Westport Innovations Inc. in Vancouver, B.C., Kenworth will use Westport’s LNG fuel system technology adapted for the Cummins ISX 15-L engine. Click for more...

Mack Boring Expands Location in Wilmington, N.C. →

It’s always good to outgrow a facility, especially twice in a decade. Ten years ago, Mack Boring & Parts opened in Wilmington, N.C. Four years later, the branch grew from 4,000 to 8,500 sq. ft. This spring, Mack Boring will build a 15,000 sq. ft. facility in addition to the existing building. The expansion will allow Mack Boring to keep up with its growing industrial and power generation business. Click for more...

Tally Avoids CDL Headaches With Bri-Mar Dump Trailers →

Peter Jomides manages job sites for Tally Construction, based in Tenafly, N.J. An affluent and heavily populated area just a few miles from New York City, the remodeling business continues to thrive here as people invest in their homes instead of moving. Tally does every type of renovation imaginable: entire houses, floors or individual rooms. Jomides’ brother-in-law, Bert Tallaksen, started the business more than 20 years ago. Click for more...

West Side Tractor Sales Hosts Fun Shoot →

West Side Tractor Sales hosted the 4th Annual Fun Shoot Sept. 22 at the Oakwood Gun Club in Wheatfield, Ind. Ninety-five customers and West Side Tractor employees accepted the invitation to shoot a round of sporting clays on a very challenging course. Customers enjoyed an early morning breakfast, followed by a full lunch inside the Oakwood Gun Club cafeteria. The Fun Shoot was supported by many West Side Tractor Sales suppliers, including Deere Construction and Forestry, Bomag Americas, Felling Trailers, Woods Equipment, Deere Credit, CitiCapital and Indeco Hydraulic Products. Click for more...

STAHL SST Service Trailers Ready for Immediate Usage →

STAHL’s SST is a commercially built, trade-specific trailer that’s ready to be put into immediate service. The SST features the organized side compartment storage of a service body with the full height interior storage of a trailer. Exterior doors allow access to lower compartments and tools can be positioned where they are needed, not hidden away. The large walk-in interior storage area features both open floor storage and adjustable side shelving. Click for more...

Kenworth Opens Its Largest Dealership in America →

Kenworth Sales Company’s new $13 million, 122,000 sq.-ft. (11,341 sq m) flagship location represents a “far cry” from the small three-person, family-run shop that the truck dealer’s founders opened 62 years ago. “Our founders would not recognize this company today,” said Kyle Treadway, Kenworth Sales Company president and grandson of founders W. Jay and Veda Treadway. Click for more...

Magnificent Obsession: Fred Heim’s Half-Size Universe Creates Big Buzz →

Fred Heim does something that no one in this country does. And he does it as well as anyone could do. Heim, 68, a woodworker for 58 years, makes exact replicas of popular earthmoving vehicles — a Peterbilt 379 pulling a 26-ft. Hill dump trailer, a Cat D8R and a Rogers 60 ton dropside goose neck trailer with air suspension, fully functional hydraulics, a Cat 345CL excavator and a radio-controlled Cat 980H wheel loader. Click for more...

Hale Trailer Purchases Atlantic Trailer →

The famous commercial in which a person exclaims that his peanut butter got mixed in with some chocolate and then realizes that together they create a great product is indelibly stored in consumers’ memories. With very different products, the recent Hale Trailer Brake & Wheel acquisition of Atlantic Trailer stands to provide the construction industry with a similar perfect complement. Hale Trailer Brake & Wheel Inc. Click for more...

Bri-Mar Supersizes With HT824D Split Deck Tilt Trailer →

Bri-Mar Trailers just super-sized a way to move equipment. With a 20-ft. (6 m) tilt deck and 4-ft. (1.2 m) stationary front, the HT824D is now Bri-Mar’s longest split deck, heavy-duty tilt trailer. With no ramps and enough room to store attachments, loading and unloading work or recreational vehicles is a snap, according to the company. The absence of ramps eliminates navigating up or down them, reducing the risk of equipment damage or personal injury. Click for more...

Towmaster T-12T Tilt-Deck Trailer Simplifies Loading →

The Towmaster T-12T tilt-deck trailer offers easy and simple loading and equipment transportation. This 12,000-lb. (5,443 kg) trailer features a low loading tilt angle, 82-in. (208 cm) deck width, Dexter Torflex axles, and a deck cushion cylinder. A positive latch mechanism secures the deck. The T-12T has an adjustable hitch and electric brakes on both axles. For safety, a battery and break-away switch is standard. Click for more...

Trail-EZE Redesigns TE701 35-Ton Sliding Axle Tilt Trailer →

Trail-EZE has redesigned the TE701 35-ton (31.7 t) sliding axle tilt trailer with a load capacity of 70,000 lbs. (31,751 kg) distributed and 40,000 lbs. (18,144 kg) concentrated in 10 ft. (3 m). The overall length is between 44 to 53 ft. (13 to 16 m) and the trailer has a width of 8 ft. 6 in. (2.6 m). The upper deck length is 112 in. (285 cm) with the main deck length being 32 ft. to 41 ft. 9 in. (9.7 to 12.7 m) and the approach ramp is 0.37 in. Click for more...

Felling Trailers Adds Fixed Neck Oilfield Float Trailer →

The latest addition to Felling Trailers’ product line is the fixed neck oilfield float trailer. These models’ capacities range from 25 to 60 tons (22.6 to 54 t) with 2 to 4 axle configurations. Construction of these trailers varies from 18 to 24 in. (45.7 to 61 cm) H-Beam Main Frame and 6 to 8 in. (15 to 20 cm) Jr. I-beam cross members pierced through the main beams. Some of the standard features of the oilfield trailers include Heavy Duty Tail Roller with easily accessible bearings, pin pockets, front pick-up eye, hub piloted wheels, fully sealed wiring, heavy-duty bent D-Rings and LED Lights. Click for more...

InfraSource Adding Extra ’Swank’ to Buckhead →

It’s a project that will define the area. The first — and sometimes only — impression that visitors take is not a bridge or a building, but a streetscape. On Peachtree Road in Atlanta’s ever-swankier Buckhead district, the streetscape will be like no other in the world. “It’s quite a visually striking project,” InfraSource Underground Construction Services General Manager George Betzner said. Click for more...

Philippi-Hagenbuch’s Rear Eject Trailer Hauls Scrap Steel →

Philippi-Hagenbuch Inc. (PHIL) has introduced a 90-ton (81.6 t) rear eject scrap steel haulage trailer for a greenfield steel mill in Mississippi. The PHIL rear eject trailers allow steel mills to customize what goes into the charge bucket in a manner which results in higher quality steel and shorter melt times, requiring less electric arc furnace energy, according to the manufacturer. The trailer is designed to achieve the scrap yard efficiencies by selectively choosing the best steel scrap recipe, melt after melt, allowing the steel mill ultimate flexibility versus the constraints of traditional rail scrap haulage. Click for more...

Seattle Invests in $2.4 Billion Construction of LRT System →

The largest contract of the latest phase of Seattle’s light rail transit system, construction of the Beacon Hill tunnel and station, involves a highly complex deep mining process and some of the most sophisticated tunneling technology in use today. The tunnel is part of the Central Puget Sound Regional Transit Authority’s (Sound Transit’s) Link Light Rail, a $2.4 billion, 10-year project to link downtown Seattle and Tukwila with the Sea-Tac Airport. Click for more...

Eastern Michigan Kenworth Opens New Full-Service Facility →

Eastern Michigan Kenworth recently opened its second full-service facility, located on Detroit’s north side. The approximately 13,000 sq.-ft. facility complements the recently improved 36,000 sq.-ft. Dearborn site that serves the south side of the Detroit-area market. A member of Kenworth’s dealer network of approximately 300 locations in the United States and Canada, Eastern Michigan Kenworth’s new Clinton Township location offers customers a more accessible facility. Click for more...

Hoist Controls Available on J&J Dump Truck Bodies →

J&J Truck Bodies & Trailers, a division of Somerset Welding & Steel Inc. and a manufacturer of dump bodies, trailers, and specialty truck equipment, is installing True Feather hoist controls on its commercial dump truck bodies. Air feather valves are popular mechanisms to raise and lower the hoist on commercial dump bodies. In the past, controlling the speed or "feathering" the hoist with standard air feather valves when raising and lowering the dump body was often difficult and prone to unpredictable hoist behavior, according to the company. Click for more...

Work-Zone Injury Leads to Long Recovery for N.C. Man →

WILMINGTON, N.C. (AP) The crash that nearly cost Robert E. Lakeman his right foot did not command front-page headlines or intense law enforcement scrutiny. It remains big news to Lakeman, who still walks with difficulty after being struck by a drunken driver the night of July 6, 2005, while working with a pipe-laying crew on Gordon Road. Lakeman is one of more than approximately 1,500 people injured every year in work zones across the state. Click for more...

Bronto Skylift Unveils World’s Tallest Truck-Mounted Aerial →

Bronto Skylift’s Model S 331 HLA truck-mounted aerial device features a 331 ft. (101 m) working height. The Model S 331 HLA, also will offer more than 108 ft. (33 m) maximum outreach, and a working reach below ground level of 36 ft. (11 m). Maximum safe platform capacity will be 970 lbs. (440 kg). Depending on the chassis selected, the Model S 331 HLA will have a transport height of 12 ft. (3.6 m), transport length of 54 ft. Click for more...

Link-Belt 298 HSL Fills Gap in Lattice Boom Crane Line →

Link-Belt’s 298 HSL, a 230-ton (208.6 t) hydraulic lattice boom crawler crane fills out Link-Belt’s crawler crane line providing Link-Belt quality between 200 and 300 tons. It also provides a replacement for all the aging 230-ton crawlers in fleets around the world. Grace Under Power Continuing the HYLAB tradition, the 298 HSL brings pin-point controls and reliability to the table. With a 230-ton capacity, it has 55,000 lbs. Click for more...

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