Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Photo: Jim Allen, Freightwaves. Waiting for a breakdown isn’t a strategy—it’s a liability. A real maintenance calendar keeps your ...

Establishing a solid preventive maintenance (PM) program is the key to getting the most productive use out of your truck and trailer. “A good PM program means you are doing everything you can within ...

Trucking can be an exciting yet dangerous profession. Your key to long-term success in the trucking industry is to have an up to-date and effective trucking safety plan. This plan should be updated ...

Weibull analysis can be used to examine a myriad of failures and problems, including equipment breakdowns. By better understanding why and when breakdowns happen, companies can better tailor their ...

Preventative maintenance refers to tasks that maintain assets on a regular basis to optimize performance and prevent unexpected breakdowns that could push up asset tracking costs. Depending on the ...

Members pictured from left to right. The concept of predictive maintenance is familiar to anyone who has owned a car—you regularly have the vehicle inspected, change fluids, replace tires, change ...

Predictive maintenance is preferred over preventive maintenance for critical assets, but the correct application of advanced analytics is required to realize full value. Power plants of all types have ...

To encourage safer electrical systems, the 2023 update to National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) Standard 70B shifted from a “recommended practice” to a “standard” that contains mandatory ...

Proactive maintenance and reactive maintenance may sound similar, but while they are not polar opposites, each is a way of performing maintenance that differs greatly. A paper published in the ...