Leaner, Greener and Keener Side Skirt

For those truck operators who have been caught in a quandary — how to install trailer side skirts while also paying for higher fuel costs, Freight Wing provides an option. How about financing programs that result in net profits from day one, as payments are significantly less than the fuel savings? And on top of that, Freight Wing’s new 2012 AeroFlex is 30 pounds lighter. Learn more about the 2012 AeroFlex trailer side skirt and Freight Wing’s financing option.

Protection for "The Big Easy"

Just 14 months after delivering its first truck equipped with a PACCAR MX engine, PacLease is leasing a Kenworth T800 tractor equipped with PacLease’s 1,000th PACCAR MX engine to Lafarge North America. Lafarge is using the truck, along with a number of Kenworth mixers it’s leasing from PacLease, on several federal projects designed to rebuild New Orleans’ storm surge protection system decimated by Hurricane Katrina. Learn more about the truck and what it means to Lafarge.

Pilot Plans Plug-in Parking

Plans for a network of truckstops with electrified truck parking spaces along the nation’s major highway-freight corridors got a big charge by an announcement from the nation’s leading truck stop operator. Pilot Flying J plans to install plug-in and recharging stations at six truck stops in California and Texas. Learn more about Pilot Flying J’s plans.

Staying in Touch

PACCAR Parts offers a new road-tested fleet management service called TruckerLink that can switch between two different cellular network technologies through an innovative technology called Remote Carrier Switching. This reduces the chances that drivers will enter deadzones and lose contact with dispatchers or get dinged for incomplete HOS or vehicle inspection reports. Learn more about TruckerLink.

Manure-to-Methane Powers Trucks

By providing 42 CNG-powered Kenworth T440s through full-service leasing to Indiana-based Fair Oaks Farms, PacLease is playing a critical role in getting a manure-to-methane project off the ground. The project could have broad implications not only for the dairy industry, but also for other operations that produce biological waste. Learn more about the project and the CNG-powered Kenworth T440s.

There's Electricity in the Air

Baker Truck Corral, just off Interstate 84 in eastern Oregon, is the first of 50 truck stops around the country to be outfitted by Shorepower Technologies in conjunction with Cascade Sierra Solutions through a program funded by the U.S. Department of Energy. A formal ribbon cutting and open house with local dignitaries officially recognized the truck stop electrification project on Aug. 12. Federally-funded rebates are available from Cascade Sierra Solutions that allow fleet and individual owners to take advantage of the electrified truck parking spaces. Learn more about the project and the rebates.