Ready to turn your boring blah-looking rig into a rolling masterpiece sure to make other driver green with envy? The fender experts at Hogebuilt has released their 2015 product catalog featuring the company’s comprehensive line of fenders produced with 304 premium mirror-finish stainless steel and 430 midgrade mirror-shine stainless steel. The new catalog features eight new products, including the Ultimate Low Rider half tandems, midgrade full tandems and the patent-pending flush-mount bracket. Hogebuilt’s catalog is available online at www.hogebuilt.com and in a traditional printed version. For more information, call 800-421-1589 or email sales@hogebuilt.com.
Of course, a good-looking truck that won’t roll down the road doesn’t do anyone any good. Equipment Editor Jack Roberts, writing for Overdrive’s sister publication for fleets, CCJ, recently paid a visit to Mack and Volvo’s new Uptime Center in Greensboro, N.C., where the companies hosted North American press at a grand opening for the new facility. Located adjacent to the Volvo/Mack corporate campus in Greensboro, the facility houses more than 150 highly trained product- and customer-support specialists whose sole mission is to leverage Mack and Volvo telematics technology to get trucks moving and keep them moving for customers all across North America.
Proper maintenance and upkeep also is mandatory to keep the wheels rolling, and that’s why Robert Bosch, a supplier of automotive parts to original equipment manufacturers and the aftermarket, recently released 20 new part number releases for December. The new part numbers include brake pads and rotors, wiper blade sets, remanufactured starters and new and remanufactured alternators. The set includes eight new Bosch Blue Brake Pad sets, four new QuietCast Rotor SKUs, six new Bosch Rotating Machines starters and alternators, and two new Aerotwin Wiper Blade sets, all covering an additional 1.8 million vehicles in operation.
But having some spiffy well-maintained trucks won’t do much good if there’s no one in the cab to drive them. The good folks at Howes Lubricator Products, a provider of heavy-duty diesel fuel additives, have teamed with Sage Truck Driving Schools for the “Howes Truckers of Tomorrow $1000 Scholarship Program.” The scholarship is funded by Howes Lubricator and can be applied for at any of 25 Sage schools across the country, where entry-level commercial truck drivers receive one-on-one CDL training. The scholarship will be awarded to one student at each Sage location and is available starting in 2015. Howes plans to offer the scholarships annually afterward. In order to be eligible for the scholarship, applicants must meet all trucking industry qualifications and demonstrate a financial need. Applications are available at www.sageschools.com or www.howeslube.com, and details also are available on the Howes Lubricator Facebook page or by calling 1-800-GET-HOWES.
