On-board digital sensors are playing an ever more important role in understanding commercial vehicles’ operational condition, finds Toby Clark
Sensors & Transducers
Toby Clark learns the latest advice about 12V batteries and how best to care for them
On-board digital sensors are playing an ever more important role in understanding commercial vehicles’ operational condition, finds Toby Clark
Maintenance
Renault Trucks is moving rapidly towards offering a full range of battery-electric commercial vehicles under a new brand: E-Tech. Toby Clark visited its Blainville factory in Normandy to find out what...
Electric Vehicles
While home-brew methane produced from anaerobic digestion might be cheaper and more environmentally friendly than North Sea fossil gas, customers still need to take care it is safe for their vehicles,...
Alternative Fuels
WorldSkills aims to raise standards of all trades – including heavy vehicle technicians – by running UK and international competitions. Winning is the goal but not the point, reports Toby Clark
Two new systems might be just the start for improving diesel engine efficiency by recycling waste heat from exhaust. Toby Clark explains how they work
Truck Efficiency
Vehicle OEMs are now being measured on a weighted average of emissions of the vehicles that they produce. The new rules show the extent to which the EU’s decarbonisation plans are starting to bite,...
Emissions Control
Automatic slack adjusters (also known as automatic brake adjusters, ASAs or ABAs) are an essential part of a drum brake assembly, compensating drum brake wear over time. But they can’t work if they...
Brakes & Braking Systems
High-strength and abrasion-resistant (AR) steel alloys are becoming commonplace in tipper body manufacture. What does this mean for durability, and will they replace aluminium in tipper bodies, asks...
Tippers
A data standard dictates how trucks send status information back to base. As fleet management becomes ever more digital, the data services available are increasingly sophisticated, finds Toby Clark
Telematics
In the race down to zero emissions, electrical propulsion technologies have trampled over two simple technologies traditionally used to save energy in vehicles. Is the time right for their...
Electric Vehicles