When your fleet gets new tires for your tractor trailers, the first act of mounting and balancing those tires to your wheel-end greatly impacts the life of those tires. Should the tires be mounted incorrectly, it can cause significant irregular tire wear and...
Appearance and safety often go hand in hand. When you take your vehicle to the car wash, you choose to get it cleaned not just because it will improve its appearance, but because regular washing saves your vehicle from salt, rust, and damage. Wheel safety and...
In 1946, Michelin introduced one of the most important advances in the transportation industry: the radial tire. While traditional tires featured cord plies that intersected diagonally, the radial tire added cord plies that cross the median axis at a 90-degree angle –...
Instead of staying in one place, a soft dual compound balancing material like FLEXX can absorb vibrations by adapting and responding to road, load, and speed forces. In comparison, inferior balancing bead materials made of glass or ceramic which are hard and...
DRIVER TURNOVER AND SHORTAGE From an operational standpoint, the problem of driver turnover is too costly to ignore. In “Examining Driver Turnover and Retention in the Trucking Industry” by Harrison and Pierce, the average cost of losing one driver was estimated...
