If your Ford truck is anything like mine, your seats are bound to take a beating. Most F-150s and Super Dutys pull, well, double or triple duty on a good day. It starts early on the jobsite, loading bruising drums of paint or bucking bricks into the bed while a handful of Breakfast Jacks stew [...]
As a youngster growing up in Wichita, the golden bosom of our glorious heartland, fear was practically unknown to my pure mind. Sure, I was mindful of papa’s belt and my older brother’s killer wedgies. But I wouldn’t think twice about climbing the tallest tree on our property, and I never needed a nightlight to [...]
You see them all the time: Light trucks, Sport Utility Vehicles, Jeeps, and more, coasting down the highway, sitting atop towering truck suspension lift kits and sporting a set of tires so big that a person could live in them. If you’re the curious type looking to lift up your own rig, a more important [...]
In a day where phrases like Ultra-Low Sulfur Diesel, Exhaust Gas Recirculation, Urea Injection and most of all Diesel Particulate Filter are being used in an industry that is more accustomed to phrases like “Boost Fooler” and “Mufflerectomy” many people are wondering if this is the end of the Diesel Performance era. Many people are [...]
Perhaps you have heard about the Future of Net-Centric Automobiles? The car’s systems will all work together like a Company Office and its computer system. Even better all these four-wheeled net-centric systems will have a system like the wireless Internet and they will communicate with each other and the Smart-Highways of the Future. This means [...]
Lance Armstrong can go faster to win in the Tour de France by using drafting strategies and the NASCAR Driver’s know of this too, as they use the opponents to block the wind. Working together in this way, they can conserve energy or fuel or both. In trucking drivers know they can move faster down [...]
The Trucking Industry is a great place to start when talking about new propulsion techniques and technologies because the economies of scale are so huge and the cost savings from even an incremental upgrade more than justify the expenditures in Research and Development to get us there. New Truck Technologies might not sound like a [...]
Attending a truck driving school is the pre-requisite for those wishing to gain entry into the transport industry in the United States. This industry is one of the largest in the country and it is little wonder when you realise that nearly all freight that is moved throughout the country will at some stage spend [...]
In many states truck drivers are not allowed to let their trucks idle all night. The reason has to do with pollution, but the problem is the truck drivers need a way power for heaters, air-conditioning and such and they will run down the batteries if they use too much juice. One option many truck [...]
Back in the day it was the in thing to buy a new set of polished aluminum Cragars for your muscle car to dress it up. If you didn’t own a muscle car then you settled for a fancy set of wire wheel covers or hubcaps. Those days are long gone by. The new trend [...]
