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TruckSavvy.com is your portal to truck maintenance on the internet…designed by truck pros, for truck pros.

Each link on TruckSavvy.com takes you directly to the information you need to learn about truck specifications, regional fuel prices, parts and service locations, product information and sources...in short, everything you ever wanted to know about vehicle maintenance.

Savvy Pro News brings you helpful hints to help you make the most of TruckSavvy.com and highlights areas of particular interest for Maintenance Professionals.

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E-Commerce from TruckSavvy.com

It's here! We are excited to announce our Fleet e-commerce section. Click here or on the "Fleet e-commerce" button on the top of TruckSavvy.com home page to access the section. 

Our goal is to feature useful products at reasonable prices in a secure environment.

Keep checking as we will continue adding and updating this section

Monitoring Fuel Prices - Official Energy Statistics from the U. S. Government

Retail diesel fuel prices seem to change as frequently as the tides. The Energy Information Administration has an excellent web site that can help you make sense of these changes and more important, to help with your planning.  In addition to detailed analysis of petroleum supplies and distribution, the site provides charts of regional fuel prices. 

Check out This Week in Petroleum on TruckSavvy.com Home Page or click here to read the latest from EIA

An Open Letter to The Industry About Electrical Maintenance

Electrical and electronic troubleshooting skills are more important than ever.

And having the correct tools, including usable schematics, is key to efficient troubleshooting and repair.

Our Savvy Pro Viewpoint contributor asks the industry to examine the way this information is supplied and offers some thought provoking observations on today's vehicle maintenance world.

Click on Savvy Pro Viewpoint to learn more.

Savvy Pro Cool Stuff - New Products, Techniques and Ideas

Dispose of Spring Brakes Safely with Safe-T-Cylinder from JSG Steel Design

Retired spring brake actuators should be safely disarmed before they are disposed of to prevent serious personal injury from accidental sudden release of the high-energy spring (which can generate as much as 2700 lbs. of force) in the parking chamber.

Coils of the power spring should be cut with an acetylene gas torch prior to disposal. This procedure renders the power spring inoperable, permitting the chamber to be safely discarded.

Safe-T-Cylinder allows you to safely disarm virtually any brake chamber by giving you a secure and easy to use protective structure to contain the chamber while cutting the springs.

Go to TruckSavvy.com E-Commerce and click on the Safe-T-Cylinder picture to learn more.

Savvy Pro Forum - Learn and Share with Savvy Maintenance Pros

One of the objectives of TruckSavvy.com is to help vehicle maintenance professionals learn about techniques and products that other people have used to improve maintenance operations.

The Savvy Pro Forum provides an opportunity to post questions, ideas, problems and solutions for comment and/or use by other forum members.

The Savvy Pro Forum will give you access to the minds and experience of other maintenance professionals, many of whom have already found a solution to the problem you are dealing with today.  Use the Savvy Pro Forum to find answers to your vehicle maintenance questions or to pass your ideas on to others.

Today's Savvy Pro Forum Question

While attending the recent truck show in Louisville we visited a few of the booths that were displaying products made in other countries.  Today's Savvy Pro Forum Question asks how fleet managers should view these new product options. 

The recent Mid America Truck Show was the scene of global vendor participation. Several countries were present, hawking their wares. Is this a trend to embrace, one to watch, or one to avoid?

Login to the Savvy Pro Forum and let us know what you think about these new global suppliers

Now That's Interesting - Information We Found on the Way to Something Else

Also at the truck show, we met a new company developing an on-board oil analysis system for vehicles.  Visyx Technologies utilizes tuning fork technology to analyze oil viscosity and presence of contaminants such as water.

The company is currently talking with OEMs to incorporate the technology in future vehicles, but we thought you might like an advance look.

Click on Interesting Things to learn more about this interesting new technology.

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