Truck and Trailer Equipment Articles

Worldwide Kenworth of South Carolina – Charleston Relocates to Newly Constructed Full-Service Dealership →

Worldwide Kenworth of South Carolina — Charleston relocated its North Charleston operation to a larger, newly constructed full-service and leasing facility to meet the growing demand for Kenworth trucks and services. The new location in Summerville, S.C., is 24 miles northwest of the previous location and conveniently located along Interstate 26. It is across from the closest truck stop near the Port of Charleston. Click for more...

Updates to Thunder Creek's Multi-Tank Trailers Automates Manifold System →

Thunder Creek Equipment has made a series of detailed improvements to its Multi-Tank Trailer (MTT) fuel and service platform that allows users to legally haul up to 920 gallons of diesel without a CDL or HAZMAT endorsement (Title 49 (CFR49)*. The MTT updates are highlighted by a new electric manifold that automatically shuts off tank valves after fueling to ensure legal transportation and provide protection against users accidentally leaving a valve open, which could subject them to moving violations. Click for more...

Mack Trucks to Provide Republic Services with Fully Electric Mack LR Refuse Model →

Mack Trucks will partner with Republic Services to build and operate a fully electric Mack LR refuse truck to help its fleet achieve zero emissions goals. The many benefits of fully electric trucks include zero carbon emissions, reduced noise and environmental sustainability. For refuse hauling companies, the ability to operate quietly during the early morning hours is an attractive feature of electric vehicles. Click for more...

Which Logging Transportation Method Is Right for You? →

Moving cut wood is a challenge for loggers and forestry workers. Below we've detailed some of the logging transportation options best suited to handle log removal or transport. Tree length log trucks come in two types: stinger-steer log trailers or fixed length log trailers. Pole trailers generally seek to reduce the weight of the log by leaving the center unsupported in order to minimize tare or truck weight, resulting in lower highway tolls. Click for more...

Felling Trailers Commemorates 45 Years In Business with Limited Edition Anniversary Colors →

January 1st not only marked the start of the 2019 year but for Felling Trailers Inc. it marks 45-years in the business of manufacturing trailers. To commemorate this significant anniversary, the company has selected three limited edition paint colors — Plum Crazy Purple Metallic, Ruby Red Metallic and Sublime Green. The limited edition anniversary colors will be available for purchase to Felling customers for the extent of 2019. Click for more...

Kenworth Names 2019 Dealer Council, Supports Gold Level Customer Service →

Kenworth Truck Company has named its 2019 Kenworth Dealer Council members. The council features eight executives representing more than 410 Kenworth dealerships in the United States and Canada. The council works in partnership with Kenworth to help provide leading-edge customer support throughout the dealer network with the Kenworth PremierCare and Kenworth PremierCare Gold Certified service programs. Click for more...

Felling Trailers' Advanced Design IT-I Series →

Felling Trailers Inc.'s engineering team has been working diligently on an advanced design for the IT-I Series model line. Officially released on Jan. 1, 2019, this refined design incorporates additional standard features, structural strength and ease of operator use. The new IT-I design will be seen on Felling's 2020 model year IT-I tilt trailers. Advanced Standard Specifications: Hitch area has been redesigned with a more user-friendly, integrated nose plate. Click for more...

Mack mDRIVE HD Debuts in Mack TerraPro Cabover Concrete Pumper Models →

Mack Trucks will offer the Mack mDRIVE HD automated manual transmission (AMT) in Mack TerraPro concrete pumper models beginning in 2019, marking the first time in the industry that an AMT has been available in a cabover concrete pumper. The fully integrated 13- and 14-speed mDRIVE HD AMTs give concrete pumper customers improved performance, proven durability and maximized uptime in an easy-to-operate package, according to the manufacturer. Click for more...

Trail King Adds Amber Hiles to Marketing Team →

Amber Hiles has joined Trail King Industries Inc.'s sales department as a marketing coordinator located in Mitchell, S.D. In this newly created role, Hiles will focus on digital asset management and content creation to support internal marketing goals. Hiles comes to Trail King with years of experience in digital design and content creation. Most recently, she was employed as a division manager of Make It Mine Designs, where she worked with clients to design and create branded items. Click for more...

Isuzu Shatters Sales Records For Fourth Consecutive Year →

Isuzu Commercial Truck of America Inc. broke multiple sales records in 2018, making last year its new benchmark for sales of Isuzu-brand trucks and Isuzu parts. This marks the fourth year in a row that Isuzu has established records in these important metrics. Isuzu dealers retailed 23,914 Isuzu trucks to customers in 2018 — a record for Isuzu-brand trucks in the United States. In addition, Isuzu parts sales increased 5.9 percent versus 2017, setting another record. Click for more...

Minnesota Sen. Klobuchar Talks Workforce at Felling Trailers →

In late October, Felling Trailers Inc.'s Litchfield location became part of the itinerary of Minnesota U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar's Central Minnesota Manufacturing road trip. While touring Felling's production facility in Litchfield, Klobuchar spoke with Felling Trailers' ownership and management about issues such as health care and workforce shortages that the company, like many manufacturers, is facing. Click for more...

U.S. Capitol Christmas Tree Lit in Special Ceremony →

After a journey of more than 3,000 miles from Oregon, the U.S. Capitol Christmas Tree was lit in a special ceremony Dec. 6, on the Capitol's West Lawn. The 80-foot Noble Fir is adorned with thousands of LED lights and ornaments made by Oregon residents. Brigette Harrington, a fourth grader from Hillsboro, Ore., lit the tree with U.S. Speaker of the House Paul Ryan presiding over the ceremony. Click for more...

Felling's Triple Reel Trailer is Cooperative's Cable Deployment Solution →

In 2003, an Electric Cooperative company based out of southern Minnesota was looking for an alternative trailer supplier that was locally based. Having heard of Felling Trailers, the Co-op made the call and was put in touch with Laurie Engle, one of Felling's trailer sales consultants. At that time Felling had been building cable reel trailers for about 10 years and was considered relatively new to the utility industry. Click for more...

Kenworth W990 Begins Transport of U.S. Capitol Christmas Tree to Washington, D.C. →

The 54th U.S. Capitol Christmas Tree – an 80-ft. Noble Fir from Oregon's Willamette National Forest – has started its nearly 3,000-mile journey to Washington, D.C., following its Nov. 2 harvesting near Sweet Home, Ore. The Oregon Forest Service nominated six trees as candidates for the special honor. The Noble Fir, the first ever to serve as the U.S. Capitol Christmas Tree, was ultimately selected by a representative of the Architect of the Capitol. Click for more...

Heavy-Haul Trailers Rely Less on Tech, More on Strength →

Whether you are a contractor that operates a large outfit with lots of earthmovers or a small builder with just a compact loader and skid steer, if you use heavy equipment, none of the pieces are of much use to you if you cannot easily get them to the jobsite. And considering that most heavy earthmoving equipment, cranes, pavers and lighter pieces, such as skid steers, cannot be driven on roads and highways, owning or leasing a heavy-haul trailer is easily the best answer. Click for more...

Kenworth Leads the Way for One of Washington State's Heaviest Hauls →

Hillsboro, Ore.–based Omega Morgan specializes in heavy rigging and transportation, among other services. The company recently hauled one of the heaviest combination loads in Washington state history, weighing in at nearly one million lbs. Washington state issues between 600 to 700 "superload" permits a year – meaning the combined weight of a tractor and trailer exceeds 200,000 lbs. Omega Morgan transported a 460,000-lb. Click for more...

Load King Announces New Mechanics Body, Propane Service Body Series →

Load King LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Custom Truck One Source (Custom Truck), announced the launch of its new Voyager Series, a vocational collection of high-performance mechanics bodies designed to serve an array of heavy equipment industries. Within the new Voyager Series, Load King will offer three primary models: The Voyager I mechanics body, an Under-CDL model, the Voyager II mechanics body, and the Voyager P propane service body, built specifically for propane marketers. Click for more...

Mack Trucks Enhances GuardDog Connect with Advanced Analytics, AI from SAS →

Mack Trucks is now delivering even more benefits to customers from its Mack GuardDogConnect telematics-based solution with help from analytics leader SAS. The partnership with SAS allows Mack to more effectively analyze the data flowing from GuardDog Connect that guides the uptime decision-making. "With SAS solutions, we're able to see patterns in our data that we were not seeing previously, allowing us to even more efficiently and effectively maximize uptime for our customers," said David Pardue, Mack vice president of connected vehicles and uptime solutions. Click for more...

Mack Trucks to Again Sponsor Share the Road Highway Safety Program in 2019 →

Mack Trucks will continue to sponsor the American Trucking Association's (ATA) Share the Road program in 2019. Mack has sponsored Share the Road since 2001. "Mack remains focused on highway safety, and we fully support the powerful message that the Share the Road drivers relay to the general public about operating safely around large trucks," said Jonathan Randall, senior vice president of sales and marketing of Mack Trucks North America. Click for more...

Mack Trucks Signs MOU with Trimble Transportation Enterprise →

Mack Trucks has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Trimble Transportation Enterprise (formerly TMW Systems), a provider of transportation software solutions that help change the way freight is moved. Mack made the announcement during the American Trucking Association's (ATA) Management Conference & Exhibition Oct. 29 in Austin, Texas. "We are pleased to announce our planned collaboration with Trimble Transportation Enterprise and study how we can bring their fleet efficiency solutions to our customers," said David Pardue, vice president of connected vehicles and uptime services of Mack Trucks. Click for more...

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