Truck service professionals around the U.S. are busy practicing their skills and prepping for the annual state technician skills competitions that lead up to the national SuperTech competition in the fall. Here’s the lineup of state competitions for the year where Mitchell 1 will be hosting the information skills testing!
The term “gremlin” dates from World War II when it referred to mythical creatures that caused mechanical or electrical faults in airplanes or machinery. Their modern equivalent lives on in car and truck electrical systems.
Some of the most innovative technologies are being introduced in the commercial trucking industry, and they will surely have big impacts on fleet operations, as well as the truck service professionals and technicians charged with maintaining and repairing these hi-tech vehicles.
Over time, and especially the past 15 years, natural gas has seen an enthusiastic reception into fleets around the globe and helped to ease the rising cost of oil. But the components for these fuels have different requirements than components on gas or diesel fueled trucks.
This roundup of blog posts written by the commercial vehicle editors at Mitchell 1 provides information on a broad range of maintenance issues for safe truck operation – especially in rainy weather.
Do you need to diagnose a specific circuit due to a fault code on your truck? The “Trouble Code Repair” module in Mitchell 1’s TruckSeries product provides great tools to help identify fault code component circuits and connector views to assist in your diagnostics.
Turbochargers are an important component on today’s commercial vehicle diesel engines and are engineered to provide optimal performance throughout the engine operating range. Keeping the turbocharger and associated systems well maintained can have a big impact on overall vehicle efficiency.
We’re pleased to announce an enhancement to the TruckSeries repair information for Class 4-8 trucks that will save technicians a whole lot of time.
We’re very pleased to let you know that thousands of diagnostic and repair articles are now available for 2015 model year trucks and school buses in TruckSeries, Mitchell 1’s all-inclusive resource for service information for Class 4-8 vehicles.
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has established standards to reduce fuel consumption and Green House Gas (GHG) emissions for the heavy duty trucking industry. These new standards have resulted in manufacturers developing every aspect of a truck’s powertrain to achieve optimum fuel efficiency.