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Aug 9, 2007

TRUCKS' PRODUCTS * USA

* Air-Weigh Scales Now an Option on Western Stars
Irvine,CA,USA -Trucking Info -9 Aug 2007: -- Air-Weigh 5800-series tractor scales are now a factory option for all Western Star Trucks with rear air suspensions... The Air-Weigh scales are spec'd through the custom application engineering offered by Western Star... On-board scales improve fleet productivity and reduce operating costs and delays caused by check-weighing...


* GM Completes Sale of Allison Unit
USA -Bloomberg -8 August 2007: -- General Motors Corp. on Tuesday closed the sale of its Allison Transmission commercial and military business to buyout firms Carlyle Group and Onex Corp. ... The $5.6 billion deal was announced June 28...



* Carrier offers fair solution to fuel efficiency


Syracuse,NY,USA -Truck News (CAN), by Steven Macleod -7 Aug 2007: -- Carrier Transicold has developed an aerodynamic solution for trailer drag, offering the Freight Wing trailer fairings in an effort to reduce fuel consumption... The patented fairings reduce aerodynamic drag in two key areas of the trailer: the underside and front. Having a complete fairing system on a tractor-trailer has been proven to reduce fuel consumption by 6% in SAE/TMC J13231 tests, according to Carrier... (See Photo)

* ALK Debuts PC*MILER Web Services
Irvine,CA,USA -Trucking Info -9 Aug 2007: -- ALK Technologies Inc., which develops global routing, mileage, mapping and route GPS navigation software, has introduced PC*MILER Web Services, a hosted interfacing application that provides map data and functionality quickly and efficiently...
* TSI/SSG Introduce Heavy-duty Tire Adapters
Irvine,CA,USA -Trucking Info -9 Aug 2007: -- Tire Service Equipment Manufacturing Co. Inc. and Safety Siping and Groove Co. have announced the addition of the two heavy-duty truck tire adapters for siping non-mounted super singles. Non-mounted super single 19.5 or 22.5 tires are too large for the expanding rims on the STE-M siper, and up until now they could only be siped after being mounted on the wheel. SSG's NEW 6138 now gives the user the ability to sipe these large super singles without them being mounted on the wheel. The 6138 adapter plates utilize the standard siper arbor shaft and retaining nuts and can be used on either the ST or the STE-M...

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