For the trucking industry, adopting technology to be smarter involves some smart trucks, smart braking systems, telematics, alongside some, seemingly, not so smart compliance requirements!
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More FAQs on EBS, TEBS, RSC, ABS, and EBS
A lot of workshops have experience with stability control systems and a lot of workshops have none, so Diesel Workshop has more FAQs on EBS, TEBS, RSC, ABS, and EBS. The fitment of such systems has been sporadic in the past. This situation is about to change with the mandatory fitting of some form of stability control making its way through to law. Now anyone dealing with truck and trailer maintenance has to be up to speed with just what the implications are of fitting these kinds of systems onto a vehicle.
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Decision to Mandate ESC Will Save Lives
The latest amendment to the truck and trailer braking ADRs has been welcomed by stakeholder reckoning the decision to mandate ESC will save lives. ADR 35/06 for trucks and 38/05 for trailers will mandate Electronic Stability Control (ESC) for new heavy vehicle trailers from July 2019 and for selected new heavy trucks and buses from November 2020.
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Stability Control For All Trucks
Bringing in a measure to mandate stability control for all trucks seems to be approved of by many around the trucking industry. With the need to continue to improve safety outcomes for trucking, and the general community, this would seem to be a consensus view.
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Why Are Major Companies Disconnecting Safety Systems?
The question has to be asked, why are major companies disconnecting safety systems on their trucks? Combinations are running around with ABS or EBS fitted on trailers but disconnected from the prime mover.
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Hino Going Auto
A trend affecting the medium to light/heavy-duty area of the market is leading to a situation where Hino going auto is only to be expected. Several truck makers have offered automated manual transmissions as an option, but the market seems to be locking itself into a preference for Allison fully automatic gearing.
As a result, Allison is an option on just about every model in the new Hino 500 Series line-up. The substantial improvement in auto performance with improved electronics, including the ability to monitor the truck’s behaviour and demands so precisely, via the CANbus, means the transmission has an effective answer to every question posed by the truck and the task at hand.
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The Subject of Rollovers
For livestock transporters, the subject of rollovers is particularly delicate. Much of the livestock transporting industry runs with trucks at 4.6 metres in overall height. This obviously creates a high centre of gravity in a load which can also move about on a vehicle. A recipe for disaster.
Safety issues are constantly being looked at in all transport, but different aspects of the issues are of interest to different sectors. The science behind rollovers is little understood in the trucking industry and Mike Robertson, Managing Director and Engineering Manager at Engistics, took on the subject for the livestock community to help bring the issues into a clearer light.
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Brakes Are Brakes, Or Are They?
As far as the trucking industry is concerned, brakes are brakes – or are they? There is a choice – drums or discs, and then the size of the drum being used, but the actual technology being used has
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Road Charging For Trucks
Looking at the world from the point of view of the Australian Livestock and Rural Transporters Association’s (ALRTA) Executive Director, Mathew Munro, his concerns for the Association’s members can be divided into two parts. On the one hand, members have to deal with the same issues confronting the entire trucking industry while, on the other, there are specific issues affecting rural carriers in particular.
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