Truck and Trailer Equipment Articles

Magers Bids Adieu to the Equipment Industry After More Than 45 Years →

Roger Magers, Felling Trailers' southwestern regional sales manager, has been a part of the equipment industry for more than 45-years and retired at the end of 2020. Approximately 30 of those years have been spent selling trailers; 18-years with Towmaster, and the last 11 years with Felling Trailers. Magers joined the Felling Trailers' team in February 2009 as the western United States regional sales manager. Click for more...

Arizona DOT Lends Helping Hand to Trucking Industry →

Faced with the delicate balance of keeping people safe and the economy going during the pandemic, Gov. Doug Ducey and the Arizona Department of Transportation made moves to assist the trucking industry to keep the supply of essentials like groceries and medical supplies flowing to Arizona communities. In April, ADOT issued new rules that temporarily allowed commercial vehicles providing direct assistance to COVID-19 relief efforts to operate with a gross weight up to 90,000 lbs. Click for more...

Command Alkon Acquires Ruckit Inc. Portfolio of Trucking Management Software →

Command Alkon, a provider of a supplier collaboration platform for construction's heavy work, has acquired Ruckit Inc. , a transportation logistics platform for the heavy materials and construction industries. This transaction combines Command Alkon's comprehensive construction materials toolset and CONNEX platform for heavy work with Ruckit's innovative solutions for digital ticketing, invoice reconciliation, and third-party hauler management for aggregate, asphalt, paving and trucking companies. Click for more...

TruckIT Announces Integration With Autodesk BIM 360 →

TruckIT, a construction technology firm specializing in dispatching and electronic ticketing solutions, has announced its integration with Autodesk BIM 360, a construction management software which is part of Autodesk Construction Cloud. By integrating with Autodesk, TruckIT is bringing an innovative solution into the heavy construction industry. While BIM 360 connects data and workflows from design to project delivery, TruckIT's E-Ticketing solution eliminates the complications of paper ticket management so dispatchers, contractors and inspectors can more effectively understand and verify ticket information from trucks. Click for more...

Volvo Group Begins Customer Deliveries of All-Electric Products →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Dec. 17 saw the first delivery of a Volvo Construction Equipment (Volvo CE) machine and the first all-electric Volvo FE truck in France. The recipient of the new products – an electric Volvo FE truck, with electrically powered crane, and a Volvo ECR25 Electric compact excavator – was leading French contractor and long-term Volvo customer Eiffage. The machines support Eiffage's low carbon strategy and are to work on the ambitious Grand Paris Express transport project in the French capital. Click for more...

Landoll Introduces New Option for 855, 860 Detachable Trailers →

Landoll Corporation has introduced a new option for Models 855 and 860 construction series detachable trailers. The drop side trailer option features a 5 in. lowered track area and a raised center. This specialty option benefits end users that are hauling tall excavators, cranes or vehicles that must obtain the very lowest deck height possible. The outer track area is only 14.37 in. from the ground with a 6 in. Click for more...

Nesco Holdings to Acquire Custom Truck One Source →

Nesco Holdings Inc. announced on Dec. 3, 2020, it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Custom Truck One Source (CTOS) for a purchase price of $1.475 billion. Nesco and CTOS are providers of specialized truck and heavy equipment solutions including rental, sales and aftermarket parts and service. The acquisition will create a one-stop-shop provider of specialty rental equipment serving growing infrastructure end-markets, including transmission and distribution, the 5G revolution build-out and critical rail and other national infrastructure initiatives. Click for more...

All-New Brute Light Equipment Trailers From Bravo →

Bravo Trailers LLC, located in Bristol, Ind., has added a new model to its full line of enclosed cargo and race car trailers. Brute is an extra-heavy-duty built trailer for hauling light equipment. The Brute model is a more rugged trailer and ideal for transporting up to 7,500 lb. equipment to job sites, securing them while there, and safely storing everything on location so equipment is warm, charged, clean and ready to work the next morning, according to the manufacturer. Click for more...

Hills Machinery Helps Bring New Levels of Success to Terex Trucks →

Every year, Terex Trucks ships a significant proportion of its articulated haulers — the TA300 and TA400 — from its Motherwell facility in Scotland to customers across North America. This year, Hills Machinery — the company's dealer in North and South Carolina — has taken a considerable amount of the trucks to meet customer demand, resulting in a market share improvement of around 80 percent in its territories. Click for more...

Apex Transportation Drivers Enjoy Experience of a Lifetime Hauling U.S. Capitol Christmas Tree in Kenworth T680 →

For Apex Transportation drivers William "Butch" Hanna and Theron Schmalzried, transporting the 2020 U.S. Capitol Christmas tree from the Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison (GMUG) National Forests in Colorado to Washington, D.C., was an experience like no other. "It was such an honor to be a part of this special transport," said Hanna. "I've received several awards from the Colorado Motor Carriers Association [CMCA] over my career — something I'm particularly proud of — and the opportunity to be one of the drivers responsible for hauling the U.S. Click for more...

From Helicopters to Wind Turbines, XLG Delivers Oversize Loads →

XLG Transportation of Clarksville, Ind., has been delivering oversize loads across the country since 2004. Starting out with one truck, XLG has steadily grown each year due to what it attributes to great relationships. That success has led it to purchasing several XL trailers for its lineup along the way. "Since our company's origination, we've purchased more than 60 XL trailers," said Dave Conroy, OTR heavy haul oversized loads truck driver of XLG. Click for more...

XL Specialized Trailers to Expand Facility, Add Jobs →

XL Specialized Trailers is planning a $6 to $7 million expansion to its headquarters in Manchester, Iowa. The expansion will increase production capacity by more than 30 percent. The new development, which will be under way at the end of 2020 or early 2021, will add roughly 55,000 sq. ft. to the north side of its current manufacturing footprint. Construction is scheduled to be completed by the end of 2021. Click for more...

Tri-State Trailers Keeps Things Moving … Coast to Coast →

Tri-State Trailer Sales sloganizes that it is "single-minded" in its approach to serving customers. "We're the trailer specialists," company President and CEO Joe Mancino declares on the firm's website. That is, the company sells and services new and used semi-trailers, the rolling stock behind the truck tractor. Big diesel-powered truck units provide the motive power, of course. But the company focuses on those platforms that trail behind and actually carry all the ag products, the finished and raw steel, toys and heavy equipment, Corn Flakes, petroleum products and furniture that America ships from place to place every single day. Click for more...

Mack Defense Donates Proceeds from Mack Anthem Camo Diecast Sales to Fisher House Foundation →

Mack Defense in cooperation with Mack Trucks announced a multiyear partnership with Fisher House Foundation in which proceeds from the Mack Anthem Digi Camo diecast model sales will be donated to the nonprofit serving military and veterans families. Mack will donate $20,000 this year for sales in 2019 and 2020, and will contribute up to $10,000 more next year as sales continue. Fisher House Foundation builds comfort houses near military and Veterans Administration hospitals where military and veterans families can stay free of charge while a loved one is in the hospital. Click for more...

Working With a Heavy Hauler to Transport Your Crane to the Job Site →

When crane manufacturers promote the features and benefits of a new crane model, "easy transport" is always on the list. With road weight and traffic laws set by local and state transportation departments, crane owners need to know they can get the machine to the job site in the safest, most efficient way possible. Ease of transport is critical to the bottom line. Obtaining city and state law permits to transport cranes and heavy equipment should be high on the crane owner's list when it comes to delivering a construction crane to a job site. Click for more...

Premier Manufacturing Sets Online Records With New Website →

Since launching its redesigned website over the summer, Premier Manufacturing has seen website traffic climb to record numbers. Site traffic is up six-fold, according to Premier Director of Marketing Steve Hansen. The spike in site traffic is attributed to new built-in search engine optimization and increased social media activity with content marketing and search engine AdWords. "We've made numerous changes to www.premier-mfg.com to make the site more user-friendly and incorporating high-resolution imagery that makes it easier for customers to search for the products they need," Hansen said. Click for more...

VIDEO: APT, Trail-Eze Partner for Custom Transportation Needs →

When Advanced Petro Technologies (APT) developed a new product with a demanding transportation need it found a partner in Trail-Eze. APT's new water remediation product is known as a DCTD. The product is designed to be an integral part of a custom trailer provided by Trail-Eze. The combination is capable of taking in 315,000 gal. of contaminated water per day and cleaning it to a level which is purer than most United States' municipal drinking water supplies. Click for more...

Buyers Products Upgrades 3-Cubic-Yard, Electric, Poly-Hopper Spreader →

Buyers Products, a manufacturer in the work truck equipment industry, introduced a larger version of its SaltDogg PRO Series electric spreader. The new 9-1/2-ft. PRO3000 model boasts a 3-cu.-yd. capacity, which equates to roughly 3.2 tons of bulk #1 rock salt. The spreader joins the existing 1.5-, 2-, and 2.5-cu.-yd. models of the SaltDogg PRO Series. To create the PRO3000, Buyers upgraded its 3-cu.-yd. Click for more...

Kenworth Awarded New 4-Year Cooperative Government Purchasing Contract with Sourcewell →

Kenworth Truck Company has won a new, four-year Cooperative Government Purchasing Contract with Sourcewell. The cooperative contract (060920-KTC) expands sales opportunities for new Kenworth Class 5-8 chassis to more than 77,000 Sourcewell members throughout the United States and Canada. "Our new Sourcewell contract offers an excellent opportunity for municipalities and government agencies to purchase the full Kenworth line of commercial vehicles, including the Class 8 vocational leader T880, T800, W990 long-hood model, on-highway flagship T680, medium duty T370 conventional and new K270E and K370E battery-electric vehicles," said Laura Bloch, Kenworth assistant general manager of sales and marketing. Click for more...

Terex Trucks TA400 Impresses On Tough Landfill Site in Australia →

Landfill operations can be tough, but that's exactly when Terex Trucks' articulated haulers excel. Civil and demolition company DECC recently bought a TA400 dump truck to work on a landfill site just outside Brisbane, Australia, and the team is already impressed with its reliable and efficient performance in tough conditions. The Terex Trucks TA400 articulated hauler has been working hard at a site in Swanbank, near Brisbane, carrying out a variety of jobs from remediation of landfills to stormwater management. Click for more...

← 62 Page 63 64 →