Tag: electrical system

Maintenance
Updated: Maintenance know-how to help stay ahead of inspectors
From tires and brakes to air and emissions systems, we've compiled this comprehensive collection of truck maintenance coverage in Overdrive to help keep your rig passing inspections and hauling strong.
February 14, 2020
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Business
Building the gremlin wall
“Engine trouble is straightforward with our Detroit. It’s the dang electrical gremlins that baffle and make us crazy. Those and the black hole that sucks socks and lighters into it…. Sometimes, it’s hard to build walls. Even for gremlins.”
January 27, 2017
“I’m here for the cabinet door.”
Voices
Runaway truck!
A Rocky Mountains disaster averted by quick thinking, teamwork and a little luck — driver Don Christner’s retelling of a hair-raising moment on Colorado’s Loveland Pass: “no runaway truck ramps, no gaurdrails, no shoulders and no do-overs.”
January 21, 2016
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Overdrive Extra
Perfecting the pairing: Designing the truck-trailer combo
The second-generation trailer in Kevin Rutherford’s Signature Series combo unit will couple to a single-drive-axle tractor and balance weight with payload possibilities, electrical efficiency and more.
November 18, 2013
While the concept truck will use solar panels atop the trailer to charge deep-cycle batteries, it will also rely on Maxwell Technologies’ Engine Start Module. The component uses an ultracapacitor to provide starts in temperatures as low as -40 degrees.
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