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Tag: John Baxter
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Handle with Care
How to remove, repair, replace and rebalance your tires when they’ve been tread upon.
May 1, 2012
Business
How to: Aim Headlights
Properly aiming your headlamps can improve night vision and reduce the risk of blinding oncoming drivers.
May 1, 2012
Business
How to do a brake job yourself
Replacing brake linings is an essential DIY project for owner-operators to avoid problems with stopping their trucks and getting citations.
April 19, 2012
Business
Extend Oil Life
With smart operation, you can save money by providing a greater cushion against lube deterioration and engine wear.
April 1, 2012
Business
How to: Do a Brake Job
All the parts of the brake system wear, so replace all working parts, not just the linings.
March 1, 2012
Business
Drivetrain Revolution
Innovative approaches to drivetrain design promise more efficient highway cruising.
March 1, 2012
Channel 19
Are fuel-injector-cleaning diesel additives worth it?; Apnea update
I’m at the FMCSA Motor Carrier Safety Advisory Committee’s joint meeting with the Medical Review Board today — watch my Twitter feed for updates from the meeting, where committee members are slated to draft guidance on regulation of the sleep apnea condition as it relates to interstate driver medical qualifications. Find prior reporting from recent-past […]
February 6, 2012
Voices
Roadside Attractions
Red Giant makes big boast, a truck driver musician plus Gauges, Truck Gallery, Channel 19 and more industry news items.
December 1, 2011
Channel 19
Freewheelin’s top 10 trucking songs after 1985
With Overdrive‘s September 50th anniversary issue hard on the way, and considering folks at the Great American Trucking Show got a sneak peak at the 50 top technical milestones John Baxter and oiur editorial crew put together, I thought I’d offer up a little for you. You’ll recall our all-time top ten trucking songs, of […]
August 31, 2011
Channel 19
Mack in Hagerstown, Jacobs share 50 years with Overdrive
Mack Celebrates 50 years of Hagerstown powertrain assembly In a ceremony Wednesday at the plant in Hagerstown, Md., where its powertrain components have been assembled since 1961, Mack Trucks paid tribute to the past, celebrated the present and cast a positive eye to the future, just as we’ve been doing (well, mostly my colleague Lucinda […]
May 6, 2011
Channel 19
‘Here comes plug-in diesel!’
So gushed the website and weekly update of the group Hybrid Owners of America about several automakers’ concept cars on display at the Geneva Auto Show last week. But in some sense, freight movement by plug-in powertrain is here, if not in the Class 8 realm, without even the diesel. Navistar recently announced expanded service […]
March 15, 2011
Channel 19
Mack CEO shined as plant worker on ‘Undercover Boss’
This past Sunday, as we wrote here last week, Mack Trucks CEO Denny Slagle appeared on the popular CBS show Undercover Boss disguised in a mustache, cap, and toupee. Slagle (pictured, right) struggled to install front covers straight on 11-liter engines at the Hagerstown, Md., engine plant, took corners too fast driving a high-lifting fork […]
February 22, 2011
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