Haldex Trailer Roll Stability Adds tools
equipment 26 Commercial Carrier Journal August 2008 Write 237 on Reader Service Card GATS Booth #17144 RightWeigh_CCJ0808PG026.indd 1 7/25/08 3:54:56 PM Citing commodity prices that have in some cases doubled in the past six months, Navistar International Corp. said last month that it was increasing prices on International trucks, effective immediately. Price increases will vary by model, topping at $1,600 per truck. Since the beginning of 2008, the price of steel has increased 100 per-cent, crude oil by more than 40 percent, alumi-num by 22 percent, platinum by 32 percent and copper by 23 percent, Navistar noted. We are acutely aware of the financial con-straints that many truck customers are currently facing and have been working diligently to absorb as much of these costs as possible, said James Hebe, Navistar's senior vice president for North American Dealer Operations. However, global commodity spikes are affecting all manufacturing, and we finally, regretfully, must now share those additional costs with the customer. Haldex says its Trailer Roll Stability System, designed to help control trailer speed by con-stantly monitoring its movements, now features FleetPlus, a PC-based program used as an opera-tions management tool that allows the fleet to compile and evaluate braking information that can be used to reduce maintenance costs and pro-mote safety with drivers. FleetPlus records all trailer brake actuations, including ABS and roll stability events, accord-ing to the company, and allows the fleet to read the EC inputs and display the data in histograms, graphs and other formats. Haldex says the data report includes the number of brake applications, peak brake demand pressure, duration of brake applications, speed at start of brake application, reservoir pressure change, load change profile number of ABS events, and a complete vehicle profile for the last 32 roll-over events avoided. This information is displayed in easy-to-read histo-grams and can be saved to external files, the company says. Haldex Trailer Roll Stability adds tools Haldex says FleetPlus records all trailer brake actuations, including ABS and roll stability events, and allows the fleet to read the EC inputs and display the data in histograms, graphs and other formats. Navistar raises truck prices