The U.S. Department of Transportation on Friday, May 27, announced that the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration and its state and local law enforcement partners conducted more than 3,000 ...

There's much work ahead if the idea of automating pre-trip inspections of trailers is to become reality. That was the feeling during a session on the subject at the fall meeting of the Technology & ...

GE Equipment Services has announced a new service to help U.S., Canadian and Mexican carriers inspect and document the condition of their trailers both before and after a border crossing. This will ...

This story appears in the March 13 print edition of Equipment & Maintenance Update, a supplement to Transport Topics. Regular tractor and trailer washes are helping fleets stave off problems during ...

Responding to President Obama's directive to cut bureaucratic red tape for the private sector, the Department of Transportation is proposing to eliminate a paperwork headache for commercial truck ...

Good preventive maintenance practices will help keep any trailer, much less flatbed units, up and running for longer productive time periods. So East Manufacturing recently put together a list of ...