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  • Straightpoint Load Cells Integral To Onboard Crane Load Tests

    Anchor Industries used water bags in addition to a variety of force measurement and rigging equipment to complete load tests on a Liebherr crane aboard a vessel in Cape Town Harbour, South Africa recently.

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    Apr 24, 2016 - 9 years ago

  • International DuraStar To Feature Bendix Wingman Fusion

    At The NTEA Work Truck Show, International Truck announced that International DuraStar is now available with Bendix Wingman Fusion, an integration of advanced safety technologies that allows truck operators to reduce and potentially avoid vehicle collisions. In 2015, International was the first OEM to introduce the leading-edge technology on their on-highway model, International ProStar. The extended offering of the collision mitigation system on their medium-duty line signifies assured driver safety, collision repair cost reductions, and ultimately, uptime efficiencies for medium-duty fleets.

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    Apr 19, 2016 - 9 years ago

  • Kenworth Names 2016 Dealer Council, Helps Promote New Gold Level Customer Support

    Kenworth Truck Company has named its 2016 Kenworth Dealer Council members. The prominent council features leading executives from the more than 360 Kenworth dealerships in the United States and Canada. The council works with Kenworth to help provide leading-edge customer support throughout the dealer network, Kenworth PremierCare and the new Kenworth PremierCare Gold Certified program. PremierCare Gold is a superior level of service that offers expedited expert diagnostics and extended dealer operating hours, among other services to keep customer trucks on the road.

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    Apr 19, 2016 - 9 years ago

  • Bandit Announces Rope Shear Devices For Hand-Fed Chippers

    Bandit Industries has developed a patent pending Shear Bar device to help cut or dislodge a winch line, rope, vines or other lines that find their way into a chipper’s drum during chipper operations, potentially preventing a serious injury, death, or reducing the extent of a serious injury if an operator becomes entangled in a line that is pulled into a chipper.
    The Shear Bar device is standard on every new Bandit drum-style hand-fed chipper since 2012, and it is available as a retrofit option for all prior Bandit chippers.

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    Apr 18, 2016 - 9 years ago

  • Terex Trucks’ Odyssey To Myanmar

    It was an epic ten-week journey, covering a staggering 13,000 thousand miles by road, river and sea - but 29 hard-wearing Terex Trucks have arrived at the jade mines of Myanmar to work on one of the most remote and challenging terrains to be found anywhere. Believed to be the bringer of prosperity and good fortune, Jade is an extremely valuable commodity in Asian cultures, said to be a bridge between heaven and hell. Kachin State in northern Myanmar is home to some of the world’s highest quality deposits, known as jadeite. These are estimated to be worth up to US$31 billion annually, almost half of the country's GDP, and are shipped overseas for use in jewellery and other products.

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    Apr 13, 2016 - 9 years ago

  • Kenworth T680s Provide High MPG, Low Driver Turnover For Refrigerated Carrier Hoosier Air

    Wade Day is a second-generation lifer. He’s been in the trucking business for as long as he can remember – following in the footsteps of his father, Doug Day, who began his own career driving coal trucks in Kentucky. When Wade was old enough to drive, he helped in the construction of Interstate 65 in Indiana by piloting a dump truck for his father’s small company. That business eventually morphed into Day’s Express, which focused on cross-country refrigerated transport and grew to a fleet of 225 tractors. After college, Day worked there in various operational capacities, including dispatch.

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    Apr 13, 2016 - 9 years ago

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