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Find
the Oldest Dyna...
Toyota Trucks SA, in partnership with FleetWatch,
announce the launch to find the oldest or hardest
working Dyna in Africa |
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Mountain MAN...
In among the timber reserves of Mpumalanga, a legion of
truck trailer combinations carries massive loads of logs
along treacherous mountain passes. Chances are, with a
powerful telescope, you’ll find most of these trucks
have three bold letters on their grilles, writes Paul
Collings. |
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Love
me tender...
Every transport application has unique characteristics
that can only really be understood and managed through
experience. |
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Special Report
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Unfair Foreign
Affair...
Paul Collings investigates
how South Africa’s various import and product control
mechanisms are responding to the onslaught by foreign truck
product exporters, focusing specifically on the issues
surrounding trucktyres and brakes.
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NUT-WISE...
A truck may be fitted with the
best tyres in the world and even have an astute tyre
manager checking tyre pressure and tread wear on a
weekly basis but if wheel nuts are loose, these efforts
come to naught and a major accident is bound to happen. |
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Detect
those leaks...
One of the most
difficult faults to find in a compressed-air braking
system is a leak too small to be heard by human ears. |
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Talking Truck Tyres...
The knowledge generated from Goodyear laboratories and
test tracks is passed on to personnel in its global
operations, ensuring that tyres sold in a specific
region meet the needs of that particular market. In
South Africa, Goodyear’s truck tyre product manager is
Chris Tye. We put several questions regarding local tyre
issues and trends before him… |
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Tyre Smarts...
It is mostly privately owned transport operations that
initiate new ‘tyre-smart’ ideas, says Nitralife SA’s
MD, Rob Sowry, whose company provides an alternative
tyre inflation medium in the form of nitrogen, writes Paul
Collings. |
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WATCH INSPECTION SHEET...
FleetWatch
has received a
request from a reader for us to publish the brake
‘check list’ used in our BrakeWatch exercise (see February
2006 edition) so that all can benefit from it. I
think that’s a great idea so here it is compliments of
Wabco, ACSAMag and FleetWatch.
Use it to check the vehicles in your own fleet. |
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Tyre mismanagement–the common
causes...
There are very few fleets where tyres are under control.
Technical correspondent Dave
Scott,
highlights 28 items to be aware of when it comes to tyre
mismanagement.
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Easing the Way for New Transporters
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A great initiative which is designed to ease the entry
of BEE operators and entrepreneurs into the transport
sector has been embarked on via an alliance between the
Industrial Development Corporation and ABSA. Patrick
O’Leary reports. |
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Understanding Following Distance...
Possibly one of the major problems contributing to South
Africa’s appalling road accident record is the failure
of so many South African drivers to maintain a safe
following distance. What is a safe following distance? Jack
Webster explains.
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