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Welcome to this week's Top Truck News recap from Truck Chat.
I'm Lauren Fletcher, executive editor of Work Truck.
Here to share a few highlights from May 14th through May 20th of 2022.
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Starting off with tech news this week.
Samsara and Whip Around have partnered up
to help reduce fleet emissions and improve fuel efficiency.
Samsaras connected operations cloud enables
businesses to harness IoT data from vehicles, equipment and warehouses.
Whip around is a fleet maintenance software solution that connects
drivers, mechanics and fleet operators to improve uptime.
When the two systems are connected odometer and engine hour readings
are automatically pulled in to whip around from samsara.
This ensures customers never miss preventive maintenance schedules
to ensure reduced downtime and improved fuel efficiency.
Sale Energy has been using the combo system on its 132
vehicle and equipment fleet to control fuel costs by reducing excessive idling
time and deploying
preventive fleet maintenance measures to improve fuel efficiency.
Looking toward maintenance related news.
This week, Ford announced the launch of the Ford Certified Glass Network.
Original equipment, windshields and glass are built and tested
to function as part of a system providing structural support in an accident
and promoting clear undistorted vision for advanced driver assistance systems
such as Lane Keeping, Pre-collision assist and automatic braking
evasive steering assist and auto high beam headlamps.
To help ensure that Ford certified glass installers are prepared
to meet requirements for quality glass installation.
The Ford Certified Glass Network will require certification
that an installer has the glass calibration capabilities to do the work.
Benefits to the certified installer include access to technical
repair procedures, calibration coaching and technical hotline support.
Ford also offers process coaching for the installation.
Mack Trucks made two announcements this week related to its refuse truck
program.
First, the truck maker launched the Electrify My Refuse Route program,
a campaign that rewards customers for sharing their refuse routes to prepare
the fleet's readiness for the Mack LR Electric Refuse vehicle
through the Electrify My Refuse Route program.
Customers download the Mack Route Recorder App to receive up to $750 in Mack
parts reward cards for sharing valid refuse collection routes.
Customers who then purchase or lease the Mack LR Electric Refuge vehicle
can receive $25,000 for charging hardware reimbursement and $10,000
in additional charging reimbursements for each further vehicle purchased.
In addition, Mack also announced that the sensitive technologies
preview Multi Sensor Collision Warning System is now available
for order on the Mack LR, Mack LR Electric and Mack Terra Pro Models.
Sensata uses four radar sensors, one on the front, one on the rear,
and one on each side of the vehicle to detect objects and vulnerable
road users that may be located in a driver's blind spot.
Vulnerable road
users are pedestrians, cyclists and motorcyclists.
The preview radar system is available as an option and is factory
installed on new builds.
Customers may also retrofit their trucks
with the system by contacting their local Mack dealer.
In additional automaker news.
EAVX and REE Automotive announced the company's new fully
electric walk in Van Prototype will begin customer evaluation this summer.
The Class five vehicle debuts the EAVX Body Design.
Powered by REES modular P seven platform, making it the first fully drive
by wire walk in van on the market, according to a company statement.
Evaluations of the new electric walk in Van
will take place over several weeks in the Detroit metropolitan area.
The pre-booked event will allow pipeline customers across retail
delivery and logistics segments to experience the vehicle, its technology,
and secure production capacity on the path for 2023 deliveries.
The walk and ban body is new ground up development and will be showcased
for the first time on the P7 platform, which was unveiled in January 2022.
The platform is intended to power class three through five vehicles
with payloads of up to £8,800 and a range of 370 miles.
Ree also announced progress this week toward commercial production,
having proven its robotic assembly capabilities.
Ree plans to implement the cloud based robotic assembly lines
at its network of highly digitalized global manufacturing plants.
With the first in its European Integration Center in Coventry, U.K., REEs Coventry
Integration Center will serve customer demand in Europe with an initial focus
on the P7 electric platform for commercial vehicles
such as walking delivery vans, busses and recreational vehicles.
The Coventry site will also operate as the blueprint for all future
integration centers with an expected to capacity of 10,000 vehicles sets.
40,000 Rees corners this year.
The North American Integration Center in Austin, Texas, is expected
to double global capacity to 20,000 vehicle sets in 2023 by
replicating the highly automated cloud based architecture of its European sibling
and looking at utility fleet news this week.
Terex Utilities announced that it will debut an all electric bucket
truck on a class six through seven medium duty chassis at the Electric
Utility Fleet Managers Conference in Williamsburg, Virginia in June.
A Terex Optima, a 55 foot aerial device powered by the high power
smartPTO by Viatec is now available on an international EMV series
battery electric £33,000 GVW chassis from Navistar.
The Terex Optima 55 foot aerial
mounted on the international EMV series is a 60 foot
working height aerial commonly used for electric distribution line work.
It has a 135 mile driving range and the ability
to operate the bucket for a full workday on a single charge.
Deliveries of the Terex Optima 55 EMV series begins in June.
For utilities
looking to replace their medium duty fleets with zero emissions equipment.
Some available availability remains for orders in 2022
and we're also continuing to update the list of vehicle video
walk around that were shot on site at work truck week 2022.
Even if you were available to attend the show in person
there's always so much to see it's unlikely anyone caught at all.
Let us walk you around the new and updated tracks you may have missed.
We have walk arounds from international Kenworth Mack, Ford, Kinedyne, Ram, Isuzu,
Blue Arc and Chevrolet ready to watch with more being posted every week.
Check out these videos to learn more about the trucks that matter to your fleets
and stay tuned as we continue to add
more videos to help you make the right purchasing decisions.
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