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From days of yesterday to today, large commercial semi-trucks have been operated through the use of a manual transmission. The large shifters were simply part of the trucking landscape, and being a professional trucker meant you needed to know how to drive one… until now. Welcome to the brave new world of automated manual transmissions … Read more
As a motor carrier safety manager, your daily routine involves putting out a near-constant barrage of business brush fires. One day you may say to yourself, “today is the day we’ll get to the root of the problem,” then a report comes in of an overnight accident, and suddenly today becomes tomorrow. The fact is, … Read more
Welcome to the introduction to what will be a long-running series here at the QuickTSI blog. We want to take a comprehensive look at preventative maintenance. Because in order for a safe and efficient operation to exist, fleet vehicles must be inspected and maintained on a regular basis. As a professional truck driver, a successful … Read more
In the second part of our series looking at the use of big data in trucking, we are going to take a closer look at one of the major problems trucking companies face in using big data to guide decision-making: Information overload. Of course, the ability to gather huge amounts of data in real-time, on … Read more
The fact is, if something needs to get somewhere, it’s likely going to be transported by a truck driver at some point during the journey. Even so, as the Great Recession taught us, no industry is immune from the fallout of an economic collapse, including trucking. And yet the days of worrying about a collapse … Read more
The electronic revolution is here, whether we like it or not. Many an industry has faced an adapt-or-die scenario: adapt to the new technologies or die a slow business death, and trucking has been no exception. Today, we live in a world where electronic control modules feed data to and from vehicles and maintenance shops. … Read more
The idea of truck platooning started long ago. While today we refer to smart highways and semi-autonomous rigs when we discuss platooning, the technology got its start much farther back than many of us realize. The fact is, governments, universities, and car and truck manufacturers have been investing heavily in preparing truly advanced platooning technologies … Read more
Just as with so many other industries, sometimes what the customers, companies and government want aren’t all the same things. While every company wants to answer to its customers and shareholders first, sometimes there’s a bigger boss to deal with first: The federal government. Generally, when trucking and government collide, messes ensue. With government already … Read more
We love working in the trucking industry, but let’s face it, any job where you’re sitting for a prolonged period of time – whether in an office chair or truck cab – can be problematic for our backs. The addition of physical labor, in lifting cargo and moving large pieces of equipment, means truckers have … Read more
In its very purest form, a 6×2 axle configuration is merely a three-axle set up with power being distributed to just one of the tandem rear axles. Simply, only two of the six wheel positions are actually powered. Earlier 6×2 configurations were composed primarily of a drive axle and a dead axle, with most dead … Read more