Equipment

It’s been a quarter century since a Ram pickup first got dieselized with a Cummins powerplant.  “We’ve enjoyed a successful relationship and have remained leaders in the diesel pickup market for 25 years,” said Reid Bigland, president & CEO-Ram Truck Brand, Chrysler Group LLC....More

Keith Leech has served as fleet manager for the City of Sacramento since 2006 and for nearly 30 years has held management positions in the city’s public works and general services departments.  “There have been a lot of changes over that time,” Leech says.  “Today, we have business intelligence to make data-driven decisions that support continuous improvement of our fleet operations.”...More

Based on what I’ve seen over the past decade, the whole green movement is just getting started.  One of the popular new buzzwords is sustainable, which basically means the resource in question is not exploited to the point where it can no longer reproduce and survive.  Natural rubber could definitely be considered on the list of sustainable products because there is a finite lifespan to each tree, and it takes several years for a new planting to yield any product....More

Shop talk—the best kind, anyway—has always revolved as much around safe operations as vehicle uptime and cost control.  But since the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) rolled out its Compliance, Safety, Accountability (CSA) compliance program, fleet owners have had to absolutely ensure that their maintenance personnel are walking the walk and not just talking the talk....More

Looking to find a way to more closely align its trucking fleet with its image as a recycler, Valley Proteins turned to PacLease for its solution.  Working through its local PacLease franchise, MHC Truck Leasing in Charlotte, NC, Valley Proteins put 10 compressed natural gas tractors into its fleet in Gastonia, NC. “When we decided that we wanted to be an early adopter of natural gas trucks and not sit on the sidelines, we looked at all our options, and PacLease was clearly the leasing company to work with,” says Richard Evans, fleet manager....More