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Chicago,ILL,USA -Motor Age -Jun 14, 2010: -- Michelin is urging trucking fleets, drivers and owner-operators to follow a steady inspection routine to help ensure tire and wheel-end safety... The most critical element of any tire maintenance program is maintaining correct tire pressure. Drivers should have an accurate pressure gauge and be instructed to check all the tires, including inner duals, on their truck each day, Jones advises... Along with tire pressure, another major safety issue that can often be avoided through proper maintenance checks is wheel-offs or runaway wheels, as well as wheel-end fires, which can lead to significant damage or accidents, he says... During the pre- or post-trip inspection, drivers should inspect the entire wheel end, including the tire, the wheel, the studs and fasteners, the hub area and the brakes. While there are many different methods for tightening wheel fasteners, the most accurate approach has traditionally been the manual torque wrench. Whatever method is selected, notes Jones, the end result on disc wheels must be 450 to 500 foot pounds of torque on each fastener. If a wheel-off does occur and the assembly strikes another vehicle, the resulting impact can be devastating to the driver and any passengers... Labels: nte, trucks' maintenance
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Fleets More Open to Outsourcing Maintenance in Recession
Arlington,VA,USA -Light & Medium Truck, by Jim Galligan -April 6, 2010: -- Outsourcing fleet maintenance becoming more acceptable... Some maintenance operations captured on fleet property, others off-site. Captured operations may or may not include facility costs in contract... Maintenance may be part of full service lease or stand-alone service... Expect vehicle availability and no drama problem resolution... Fleets monitoring repairs and uptime closely. Contracts typically run multiple years... (Photo from imghost1.indiamar: truck maintenance services)
Sandy Springs,GA,USA -Business Week, by Daniel Terdiman -April 2, 2010: -- Small inefficiencies in large fleets like UPS's 102000 units globally can add up to substantial cost... UPS's telemetry program instituted in 2008 collecting data from 10K trucks. Telematics monitors small sensors throughout truck measuring use... Data mining using advanced analytics identify trends not readily apparent w/o it... Predictive maintenance matched to truck use optimizes uptime and minimizes operating costs. Also makes significant reduction in carbon footprint... Keeps drivers a little bit safer... (Credit: UPS - A UPS mechanic accesses the company's telematics system. The company uses telematics and complex data analysis to get the most efficiency out of its trucks)Labels: trucks' maintenance
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Researchers at the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) and Lockheed Martin are working on a sensor-based monitoring system that assesses the health of a vehicle and alerts the driver to potential problems
Rochester,NY,USA -Technology Review, by Brittany Sauser -9 Jan 2009: -- The system uses a network of embedded smart sensors that are placed near problem-prone components... Information from the sensors is wirelessly transmitted to a central command center for analysis... The system includes both standard sensors for temperature and vibration monitoring, as well as customized smart sensors for monitoring the vehicle. Nabil Nasr, assistant provost and director of the Center for Integrated Manufacturing at RIT says, the researchers have developed sophisticated software for analyzing the data produced by the sensors... "The algorithms are extremely valuable because they help us build a model of predictive and condition-based maintenance, so we can predict failures before they occur, and we can make determinations about service based on the actual conditions of the equipment," says Randy Weaver, at the Rochester Genesee Regional Transportation Authority, which has been testing the technology for use in public transit systems... (Photo Credit: Laura W. Nelson - RIT Performance evaluation: Researchers at Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) and Lockheed Martin have developed a system that monitors and assesses the health of a vehicle and predicts its future performance. The vehicle, such as the military light-armored vehicle, is embedded with sensors that send information to a computer at a central operational center. Shown here are Dave Keegan (right), an RIT student, and Bob Kosty, a technician, looking at the software that analyzes the data to determine how the equipment is functioning and warn of any potential problems)Labels: trucks' maintenance
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