DOT Secretary Pete Buttigieg, addressing TCA s annual conference, singled out issues of compensation/conditions for operators for improvement. Chris Lloyd was crowned Highway Angel of the Year.
The national average price for diesel jumped 10.5 cents last week. Also: After a fairly flat-to-down first month of the year on the spot market, truck postings to Truckstop.com rose 12.7%; TCA opens Highway Angel of the Year voting to the public.
New 19-axle super-heavy-haul trailer
Within the HighwayMAX family of Faymonville trailers is the new Dolly&Booster, an extendable super-heavy-haul unit composed of nine hydraulically-steered pendle-axles, a three-axle jeep dolly and a three-axle nitro booster. This “King of the Highway,” the company said, can save time and money with quick and easy assembly and disassembly, and is new to the North American market from the Belgian manufacturer.
Including the truck, the HighwayMax Dolly&Booster creates a 19-axle combination and achieves a payload capacity of about 240,000 lbs. at 20,000 lbs. per axle.
Besides fast mobilization, customers can benefit from flexible use, Faymonville said, as the jeep dolly and booster are detachable, and can be loaded on the trailer for empty runs minus expensive and time-consuming permits. The truck and trailer combination length is less than 110 feet and the loading platform can be extended up to 82 feet. The spacing between axle tridems