Bendix

As their populations grow, Class 8 electric trucks are proving as susceptible to safety recalls as diesel-powered units.

A faulty Bendix brake part led to a Paccar Inc. recall of 8,008 Kenworth and Peterbilt medium-duty trucks.

This week: University of Arkansas’ undergraduate integrated supply chain management program renamed in honor of J.B. Hunt; CFI wraps another truck for its “She Drives CFI” initiative; and Bendix helps build a new high school athletics facility in the new headquarters’ community.

Daimler y Volvo, entre los primeros en informar del problema de la filial de Bendix

Almost all heavy-duty truck manufacturers are part of a safety recall involving improperly assembled steering gears from a Bendix subsidiary.

This week: Trucking Cares donates to Ukraine relief funds, Bendix supports hospice Pappus House and the UPS Foundation celebrates Women’s History Month.

This week: Phillips 66 employees mark Black History Month, and Bendix and Amazon support STEM programs in the Midwest.

This week: Gopuff donates to eight Covenant House locations, new Trucking Cares president announces new campaign and Bendix Huntington builds an all-inclusive playground for the disabled.

This week: Bendix employees build beds for local children, Women In Trucking pilot new mentorship program with LeadHER Alliance and C.H. Robinson employees kick off Robinson Cares campaign.

Does the search for a completely safe driverless truck mean that everything should wait for perfection? David Liu doesn’t think so.

Peterbilt took five years and the input of 59 customers to complete a thorough redesign of its Class 8 flagship Model 579 that improves fuel economy by 7%.

Heavy-duty trucks with collision avoidance, emergency braking and other safety technologies are beginning to enter the used truck market, potentially making the roads safer as older trucks are retired.

In today’s edition of The Daily Dash Rand McNally’s ELD are finally back online, plus GM and Nikola alter their tentative agreement and J.B. Hunt acquires a final mile provider.

Request follows similar FMCSA waivers recently provided for truck dashcams.

In today’s edition of The Daily Dash, electric driveline manufacturer Hyliion officially became a public company on Friday. Plus, Uber Freight secures $500 million in funding and trucking’s recovery continued in September.

A Bendix-Dana joint venture has made more than 3.5 million heavy-duty truck brake system components since 2004. Now Bendix will go it alone.

NEXT Trucking, Fuel Ox, Bendix and Southeastern Freight make strategic employee moves.

Inspectors will focus on brake hoses/tubing during the Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance’s (CVSA) annual Brake Safety Week Aug. 23-29.

John Flynn is convinced that safety equipment on heavy-duty trucks saves lives and could reduce nuclear verdicts. His company, Fleet Advantage, is taking a financial risk to prove his point.

WEF projects 36% growth in last-mile delivery vehicles by 2030; Tesla vehicle registrations in California halves in Q4 ’19; Bendix signs on Geotab as telematics partner.

Bendix introduced several new products and updated a number of others at its press conference at the North American Commercial Vehicle Show in Atlanta.

Bendix is growing its air disc brake manufacturing facility in Bowling Green, KY again, this time to the tune of $65 million and 100 new jobs.

Volvo Trucks says anyone involved in heavy-duty trucking has a “moral obligation” to make trucking safer.

Improved safety and total cost of ownership is driving more truck makers to make air disc brakes standard.

Bendix is now making its advanced safety systems available for retrofit for models where it was not factory-installed. Plus, U.S. finds little support for postal rate changes, detention time increasing and air cargo boom may be over.

As truck fleets have installed Bendix safety products on their vehicles over the past few years, few had any realization that those products, such as air disc brakes, Wingman Fusion, BlindSpotter, and stability control systems such as ESP and TAB-6 for trailers, would form the basis of autonomous technologies.

Trucking fleets have been hit with a series of equipment price increases in recent years due to new government regulations, including thousands of dollars for tractors due to greenhouse gas regulations. The new electronic stability control regulation, though, may be one where the benefit far outweighs its minimal cost.