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Product Spotlight: 2025 in-cab comforts
Keeping your drivers comfortable and alert can be a key to retention and hiring in 2025. Here are 12 truck cab comfort offerings available now for fleets.
Here's What The Inside Of A Semi Truck Sleeper Cab Looks Like
The answer might surprise you. Depending on the truck, and any modifications made by the operator, the sleeper cab not only offers a bed, or multiple bunks in some cases, but also a variety of ...
Windrose Launches First All-Electric Long-Haul Sleeper Truck in U.S., Partnering With JoyRide Logistics & EO Charging to Deliver TCO Parity for Shippers
This milestone is being realized in partnership with JoyRide Logistics, a Phoenix-based carrier and the first U.S. regional trucking company to operate fully electric sleeper trucks, all of which ...
New Battle Born Power Pack Helps Cut Idling, Extend Battery Life
Using lithium battery technology, it powers auxiliary loads while the truck is parked, reducing unnecessary engine starts and ... Pack installs inside the sleeper cab under the bunk without ...
Tesla Semi Fleet Traveled Nearly 5 Million Miles, One Has 250,000 Miles On The Clock
The Semi fleet, which has roughly 100 units, has covered over 4.6 million miles in less than two years. The truck cab is reportedly designed to be easily converted into a sleeper cab. The Tesla ...
Driver's death prompts in-cab carbon monoxide warning | New Paccar MX-13
Air monitoring in the sleeper and near the heater's exhaust while it was running did not show any significant amount of CO. No exhaust leaks were detected in the truck's engine or undercarriage area.
First time for everything: Bearing witness to Junior Elmore’s 1977 Marmon cabover
Trucker-photographer Don Christner is chronicling the past and present of rigs he found parked in the former small fleet yard ... in the cab. External in-line engine block heater.
APUs: Diesel or Electric?
Auxiliary power units allow truck drivers ... for their sleepers and electricity for hotel loads without needing to idle the tractor engine, but fleets that elect to add APUs to the cab must ...
Pre-Heaters Enable Reliable Engine Starts in Cold Weather
based carrier uses Webasto coolant heaters, which they start 60 to 90 minutes before the trucks depart, Kerwin said. The fleet also installed bunk heaters so the sleeper ... engine to heat the cab ...
Volvo adds battery-powered parking cooler as option on sleepers
Volvo Trucks North ... VNL 730 and VNL 780 sleeper models. The battery-powered parking cooler allows drivers to keep the cab and sleeper comfortable without idling the engine.
CAB, ENGINE HEATERS
The heaters can be used in a variety of applications to heat the bunk and cab, cargo, and engines, eliminating the need to idle the truck. Most models are available in 12- or 24-volt versions, and no ...
Kenworth T680 52-inch Mid-Roof Sleeper Available with Optional Upper Bunk
The T680 52-inch sleeper is standard with the Paccar MX-13 engine rated ... living space into the cab to provide even more comfort and convenience when parked. A bunk heater, flat screen TV ...
Idling: Shutting ’em down
As demands to reduce heavy-duty truck idling increase, fleet executives ... starts. Cab or bunk heaters These diesel-fired heaters supply warm air to the cab or bunk. An engine block heater ...
Red Dot Offers Improved Battery-Powered A/C System for Truck Sleepers
The all-electric A/C system maintains a cool, comfortable cab and sleeper environment while the truck engine is turned off, burning no fuel and producing no emissions. Improvements include an all ...