Upgrading to an Electric Fleet | Customer Interview | Ford Pro

Watch the video to find out how upgrading to Ford Pro electric vehicles helped Grade A Construction save more than $3,300 per month on their fleet, making it one of their best business decisions. Learn more at https://ford.to/3Pf3IGd. SUBSCRIBE: https://ford.to/SubscribeFordPro

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When to Replace Your Tires | Consumer Reports

The lifespan of a tire can range anywhere from 25,000 miles to 100,000 miles. The experts at CR show you how to check your tires so you’ll know exactly when to replace them.

A&T Road Service NRC Quickswap & Tag Axle Can Tow HD trucks, buses and mobile homes

Call 800-434-1205

A&T Road Service added Truck 32 in 2014. It was a brand new 2014 Kenworth with a 500 hp Cummins and an 18-speed gearbox is outfitted with an NRC Quickswap detachable tow unit with a tag axle for extra capacity. This allows the truck to be a wrecker and also a transfer vehicle, so with the unit disconnected, it will tow mobile home units, trailers of all kinds and with the wrecker unit attached is capable of lifting up to 20,000 lb steer axles for heavy-duty truck towing. This unit can easily to HD trucks, buses, mobile homes.

It is outfitted with tools and parts to make minor mechanical repairs, air-line repair, fuel line repairs, add fuel, and can take care of any DEF needs. It is also equipped with extra high-intensity lights for more effective and efficient night work since A&T Road Service is available 24 hours a day.

Visit A&T Road Service at https://www.truckmobilerepair.com/

And North Bay Truck Center is centrally located in Fairfield CA to service all of Solano County along with much of the San Francisco/Oakland bay area and Sacramento. A&T Road Service is available by calling 800-434-1205, You can also visit the NBTC website at http://www.NorthBayTruckCenter.com

Upgrading to an Electric Fleet | Customer Interview | Ford Pro

Watch the video to find out how upgrading to Ford Pro electric vehicles helped Grade A Construction save more than $3,300 per month on their fleet, making it one of their best business decisions. Learn more at https://ford.to/3Pf3IGd. SUBSCRIBE: https://ford.to/SubscribeFordPro

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How Road Barriers Stopped Killing Drivers

We've gotten way better at the engineering and design of road barriers — often in surprising ways — to dramatically reduce driving deaths. To understand crash costs better, NPR has a great podcast on how life is valued: https://www.npr.org/2020/04/15/835571...

Andrew Lam

Andrew Lam

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Peterbilt at the NTEA Work Truck Show | Explore the Future of Work Trucks!

Join us at the NTEA Work Truck Show in Indianapolis. In this exclusive video, we showcase the latest innovations, designs, and technologies that are shaping the future of work trucks. From powerful engines to advanced features, Peterbilt provides exceptional craftsmanship and cutting-edge solutions for professionals. This is the official YouTube Channel of Peterbilt Motors Company, a division of PACCAR Inc. Visit us at https://www.peterbilt.com/.

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Meet America's Manufacturing Revolution | Rouge Electric Vehicle Center | Built Ford Proud

We've gotten way better at the engineering and design of road barriers — often in surprising ways — to dramatically reduce driving deaths. To understand crash costs better, NPR has a great podcast on how life is valued: https://www.npr.org/2020/04/15/835571...

Andrew Lam

Andrew Lam

163K subscribers

Top 5 Work Truck Safety & Security Trends

By James Muiter, Product Line Manager, Reading Truck Group

With a pulse on the customer needs and innovation in the work truck sector, James Muiter, Product Line Manager at Reading Truck Group, shares his top five industry trends on safety and security.

1. Operator safety. Employers are carefully considering how to keep their operators injury-free, so avoiding accidents around the truck is just as important as on the road.  Proactive measures on a work truck can include installing safety steps and grips so that the operator can maintain “three points of contact” at all times when entering and exiting the vehicle.  At Reading, we’ve begun to see these concerns migrate from the very largest fleet operators and governments, into corporations and vocational fleet buyers.
2. Visibility. Keeping the truck and its surroundings well-lit and visible helps protect workers from accidents on the side of the road and keeps crews productive when they’re working after sundown, especially in the winter months.
3. 360° coverage. Chassis OEMs are bringing safety innovations like 360° cameras, and accident-avoidance technologies like collision warning, automatic emergency braking, adaptive cruise control and blindspot monitoring, which used to be only on luxury cars, into the commercial truck segment.  For example, every Ford Transit is now shipping with lane-departure warning and forward-collision warning camera systems.
4. Securing tools and gear. A typical work truck now provides at least two layers of ‘locking’ protection.  Compartment doors will use power locks or three-point locking for additional points of contact and pry-proofing.  And these measures can be augmented with a “bar lock” or master locking feature, where a single padlock can secure all of the compartment doors to keep tools and equipment safe.  Additionally, Reading’s remote keyless entry locking system, called Latch-Matic, can now be integrated with the power locks on the chassis.  A driver can now lock and unlock both the body and chassis with a single key-fob.  Using just the chassis fob, for example on a Ford Super Duty or Ford Transit, gives our customers the convenience they have been asking for.  
5. Ergonomics. For better ergonomics, handles and steps are no longer considered a special add-in, they’re becoming a standard offering across the board.  As an example, fixed steps that don’t have to be manually unfolded by the operator will help meet evolving safety requirements and might even lower insurance costs.

By James Muiter, Product Line Manager, Reading Truck Group as published in Fordpros magazine

Hydraulic Lines Galore at North Bay Truck Center!

We have thousands of Hydraulic Fittings and Hoses in stock at North Bay Truck Center. We can make up hose lines for virtually any requirement.

NORTH BAY TRUCK CENTER

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1245 Illinois Street
Fairfield, CA 94533707-427-1386

http://www.northbaytruckcenter.com

How to Deal with Roadside Emergencies

                                           Some tips on how to deal with roadside emergencies.

BRAKES: How They Work | Science Garage

Brakes are the unsung heroes of performance. Everybody loves going fast, but slowing down is important too. There’s disk brakes, vented brakes, brembo brakes and drilled brakes-- let’s “brake” it all down! Bart talks about the principles that make your brakes work. From drums and discs, to friction and heat, we get to the nitty gritty of how Brakes systems keep you safe.