Mack Trucks, Inc. (Mack) is recalling certain model year 2015 Titan trucks manufactured January 17, 2014, to May 23, 2014. Due to an incorrect parameter setting in the software for the engine control unit, the engine may stall.
Mack Trucks, Inc. (Mack) is recalling certain model year 2015 Titan trucks manufactured January 17, 2014, to May 23, 2014. Due to an incorrect parameter setting in the software for the engine control unit, the engine may stall.
Mack Trucks, Inc. (Mack) is recalling certain model year 2013-2015 CXU and 2014-2015 CHU trucks manufactured August 23, 2012, through June 27, 2014, and equipped with adaptive cruise control. Due to a software error, the affected vehicles may not provide visual or audible alerts to the driver warning them that an obstruction in the road […]
Daimler Trucks North America LLC (DTNA) is recalling certain model year 2014-2015 Western Star 4900 trucks manufactured June 24, 2013, to April 30, 2014. The affected vehicles were manufactured without Anti-lock Brake Systems. As such, these vehicles fail to meet the requirements of Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard No. 121, “Air Brake Systems.”
Several trucking industry groups offered their support over the weekend for a provision that would, if included in a looming bill in Congress, suspend two key provisions of hours-of-service rules for truck drivers, along with requiring FMCSA to provide more scientific justification for the restart provisions.
Downtime is a killer for fleets, with very real bottom line consequences. Customer support specialists for Mack Trucks and Volvo Trucks North America calculate that a commercial vehicle downtime event today can cost a fleet as much as $2,000 a day. Obviously, mitigating or even avoiding costly downtime events is a high priority for fleets […]
The suspension of parts of the 2013 hours-of-service rule moved a step closer to fruition Thursday evening, as the U.S. House cleared the spending bill that includes language to halt enforcement of some HOS provisionsat least until September of next year.
Update, 12/11: Though certain elements of the 1,600-page omnibus spending bill have caused members of Congress on both sides of the political aisle to voice their disapproval of the bill’s passage, the bill is still expected to clear both chambers of Congress this week. However, some reports have indicated Congress is preparing a stopgap measure […]
Electronic data interchange (EDI) was in its infancy when Ken Weinberg co-founded Carrier Logistics, Inc. (CLI), in 1972. The concept sounded promising to the young entrepreneur who developed a dispatch, accounting and freight management system for less-than-truckload carriers named FACTS.
n Oregon Democrat, a Wisconsin Republican and the spirit of Ronald Reagan came together in the House Wednesday to renew the call for an increase on fuel taxes to save the failing Highway Trust Fund. But the current president, speaking later, questioned whether any such effort can garner enough votes in this Congress or in […]