C.E. Niehoff & Co. as a job shop manufacturer of OEM brushless alternators to the heavy truck market faces the following internal forces: Supplier Power: -Rising costs of materials. Casting suppliers routinely pass along to C.E. Niehoff & Co. metal and energy surcharges. They are fully aware that they can do this as there is [...]
My name is Leslie, and I am a wrestle-aholic. The first step to recovery is acknowledging that you have a problem, but frankly, I don’t care. I love wrestling, wrestlers and everything that goes along with this fantastic sport. If watching a wrestling match is a disease, I hope they never find a cure. I [...]
Why are GPS units showing up everywhere? Because Paper Maps belong to the past. Twenty Years ago, you had to rely on a compass the position of the Sun and Stars, paper maps or your own common sense to get direction. Not anymore! Now you can have a handy little device in your car, on [...]
Purchasing a previously owned vehicle is a great way to save some money, while still getting a decent car. If you shop smart you can find a good used car that will provide you with years of service. However, if you jump at the first low cost car that you come across, you might end [...]
Truck tire blowout, often caused by defective tires, is a very serious road hazard that often results in collisions with injuries and fatalities. We have all probably seen the remnants of a blown truck tire scattered across a highway, and many of us had to do some skillful maneuvering to avoid running over these “road [...]
Overweight and overloaded trucks pose a very serious danger on our nation’s roadways. When a truck has more weight than it can safely carry, stopping is much more difficult, and the truck is much more likely to get out of control when swerving to avoid a collision or an animal in the road. Overloaded trucks [...]
German activists operating under the banner of the green lobby have taken to slashing tires on high performance vehicles in Berlin in order to ‘educate’ the drivers of such vehicles. Each owner of the 80-plus vehicles that were subject to an attack in the last week of July found a hand-written note under the windscreen [...]
Suspension lift kits have come along way since the days when desert rats modified their rigs with axle blocks and add-a-leafs. Today’s suspension lift kits are so technically advanced that it takes an engineering degree to make any sense at all, and it continues to get more complex. Modern truck builders use complicated set ups [...]
All transportation companies need an operating authority issued by the former Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) which is now maintained by the Department of Transportation (DOT). You as a trucker also need this operating authority. For commercial trucking and commercial truckers it is an unavoidable permit or authority. When you carry commodities over different state lines, [...]
When your check engine light on Dodge diesel truck is flashing, it is a good indication that your engine computer is warning you that either your diesel emission system is failing or one of its sensors is defective. The best way to confirm if you have a fault code is to reset it by disconnecting [...]
