John Baxter (CCJ)BusinessPreventable or not?Driver John Doe had offloaded a third of his load of 60 cases of Mrs. Jones’ Pecan Pralines at a local coffee shop. He’d safely pulled his c…October 3, 2001BusinessBad fleets make bad driversLast spring, a few fortunate journalists attended a truck safety seminar held by the National Robotics and Engineering Consortium of Carnegie-…October 3, 2001BusinessPreventable or not?It was 6:30 a.m. as John Doe brought his premium tractor-trailer to a stop in the left lane of a four-lane street in the center of a tiny Miss…September 5, 2001BusinessChecking Roadcheck 2001In June, truckers around the country experienced the Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance’s Roadcheck 2001 – a three-day period of Level 1 road…September 5, 2001BusinessPreventable or not?It’s a sunny day, but traffic is extremely heavy. John Doe, a 500,000-mile safe driver with a well-established fleet, is proceeding, in first…August 6, 2001BusinessSeeing value in CVSAOur nation began as a loose federation of nearly sovereign states, which agreed in 1787 to give up much – but not all – of that power in adopt…August 6, 2001BusinessCummins demonstrates EGRWhile caterpillar “acerts it won’t need EGR” (see CCJ, Maintenance & More, May 2001), Cummins Inc., Columbus, Ind., is convinced that engin…July 27, 2001BusinessDashboards made saferThe good news is that future electronic dash displays will provide drivers valuable information about their vehicles, road conditions, preferr…July 27, 2001BusinessExpert revisits replacement lining characteristicsAt the 2000 SAE Truck & Bus meeting in Portland, Ore., Larry Strawhorn, engineering vice president of the American Trucking Associations, Alex…May 25, 2001Previous PagePage 10 of 10Top StoriesDriver coaching and scorecardingDrivers rank camera as top safety tech, as long as it faces outwardTruck drivers ranked a camera, depending on which way it faces, as having a good and bad influence on driver safety.Test DrivesQuick spin: Pete's electric Model 579Recruiting & retentionTrucking's youth movement lagging, but no retirement in sight for most driversTechnologyTransportation a top 10 target of cyberattackers, cases nearly triple last yearFeatured SponsorDownload the Heavy Duty Maintenance Checklist
