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The novel Coronavirus is continuing its spread across the United States, with nationwide cases experiencing a surge up to 85,000 according to CBS News — surpassing the number of cases in any other country, including Italy and China.
Clutches were built to be efficient and to keep you safe. The reason we have clutches, whether they’re manual or self-adjusting is to ensure that when we’re driving on the road our engine is moving our wheels when we want it to and only as fast as we want it to.
In layman’s terms, just because our wheel stops, doesn’t mean we want our engine to stop, and if our engine is running, that doesn’t necessarily mean we want our wheels to be churning. In heavy-duty trucking that’s even more prevalent, as we want you to move your cargo as efficiently and smoothly as possible.
As COVID-19 continues its spread across the country and states are beginning to issue “shelter-in-place” regulations, many businesses are finding themselves having to quickly pivot to remote operations. But although highways that were gridlocked just a week ago are now mostly deserted, the rumble of commercial vehicle truck tires can still be heard, delivering cargo that has become precious to all Americans - masks and medical supplies, groceries, hand sanitizer, and toilet paper.
The novel Coronavirus has caused what freight marketplace DAT Solutions referred to as “the mother of all supply chain disruptions,” with medical centers needing more supplies and more raw materials needing to go to factories to continue manufacturing the supplies.
To help you take safety precautions for yourself, your business and your customers, we can ship parts directly to your customers to help avoid face-to-face contact, and additional resources at your own facility to move parts.
Simply add your customers' ship to address during checkout and needed goods will ship directly to them with a simple ship-to receipt to keep your pricing confidential.
Though we’ll disagree with this statement, we understand that sometimes it can be difficult ordering parts aftermarket. Finding the right part number to look for can be tough, and sometimes it’s not at the price point that you were looking for.
That doesn’t mean you’re out of options, though. As long as you have the right cross reference number you can shop for replacements from several different brands, but even those can be at a premium. On the flip side, the less you spend on a replacement can lead to a shorter product life. So does a brand exist that can offer reliable parts at a price you don’t have to tighten the belt for? You bet there does.
Match Made Parts is a relatively new brand designed to bring quality aftermarket parts at an efficient a
Whether you’re working from home, reporting to an office, watching the news diligently or avoiding it altogether, the current topic of interest across the country revolves around the novel Coronavirus. With many companies and schools needing to pivot strategies and create distance-based solutions, there’s one major industry that’s not only still in action but has ramped up productivity — trucking.
The work of truckers to bridge the gap between supply and demand is necessary all year long, but in the wake of household and medical supply shortages across the country, an unprecedented move are being made to make sure that resources are distributed in all of the areas that need them.
Everybody loves when their bus, tractor-trailer, or truck is operating at peak performance with no weird vibrations, smells, or noises to indicate that something’s off. This is especially true in your wheel ends — when something’s broken or failing in the hub assemblies that literally keep your truck on the road, there’s no ignoring it or putting it off til next quarter’s expenses.
If you’re one of the lucky ones, then you’ll go thousands of miles before you experience wheel end issues, and the little champions that help make this possible are your wheel bearings. A set of steel balls held together in a metal ring called the race, your wheel bearings are designed to fit cozily inside of the wheel hub — the hollow piece of metal at the center of the wheel.
If you had a nickel for every time I’ve said: “Heavy-Duty Everything” you could buy plenty of shock absorbers. Fortunately for you, heavy-duty everything isn’t stopping anytime soon.
So speaking of heavy-duty everything (and speaking of shock absorbers) we’ve been hard at work expanding our product line to offer more to our heavy-duty customers. So while we continue to add to our parts catalog, we’ll be writing up some heavy-duty blogs detailing our new offerings. Today we’re reaching out to the heavy-duty campers, mobile homeowners and movers of the world with Monroe RV Shock Absorbers.
We talk about wheel hubs a lot, and for good reason — all too often, they get lumped into that category of parts on your vehicle that you don’t pay much attention to. Once the hubs are securely attached to the axle on one side and the tire on the other, it’s easy to put them out of your mind. They’re built to last for 100,000 miles, right?
If there’s one thing that’s always a guarantee besides death and taxes, it’s the fact that most “set it and forget it” vehicle parts still need some degree of attention to avoid premature damage and failure. But your best line of defense is starting out with the best wheel hubs on the market — PreSet wheel hubs from ConMet.
Whether you’re a driver or a fleet manager, you know that there are certain highways and freeways across the country that you do absolutely everything to avoid. Traffic congestion and gridlocks can make or break having an on-time delivery, not to mention that it’s incredibly frustrating to go from cruising highway speeds to a slow crawl.
Since 2002, the American Transportation Research Institute (ATRI) has been gathering data from over 1 million trucks. This data has been analyzed to reveal the most heavily gridlocked roads from over 300 specific locations.
While bustling cities like Chicago and Denver predictably make the list multiple times, it’s New Jersey and Georgia that take the first two places for most congested according to the most recent ATRI reports:
You’re moving a major haul down the highway, radio on, sun shining, wheels turning. You’re making great time so you think you might have room for a long lunch in between the journey. But in the back of your mind, you feel like you’re forgetting something. It’s on the tip of your tongue but you can’t remember what it was you needed to do. So you try and brush it off and keep driving.
Now you’ve lost your peace of mind because you can’t quite remember what it was that you forgot. That lunch doesn’t quite hit the spot and now you feel you’ve got a pit in your stomach. But before you can remember what it was, your engine starts to slow down, and before you know it you’re on the side of the road. You get it into the shop and it looks like an issue with your fuel and engine – which is when it hits you – you haven’t changed your fuel filters in who knows how long.
