ELMHURST, Queens (WABC) -- A 59-year-old electrician fell to his death while making repairs to a traffic light after his work vehicle was struck by a box truck in Queens early Thursday. It happened at ...

Ask any technician and they will probably have a story or nine about do-it-yourself repairs gone wrong. Some are amusing, like the guy who walks into the shop with a carboard box full of parts that he ...

If you have a bad alternator, chances are you’d never recognize the problem in the winter when it’s cold. But the problem will show up pretty fast once the weather warms up and electrical loads ...

Luckily for driver Bob, he wasn’t following a convoy of bikers down the highway when his horn started blowing and kept on blowing. While driver Jane might have looked a bit silly with her windshield ...

The Association for the Work Truck Industry (NTEA) in collaboration with e-learning platform Electude, announced a new DC and AC Voltage online course as part of its Truck Equipment (TE) Electrical ...

Vehicle electrical engineers are like kids in a sandbox these days. The transition to 48-volt vehicle architecture represents nearly endless potential for improvement in efficiency and functionality ...

AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Proving that being made in America does indeed have its rewards, electrician Tim Frost won the 2012 Ford F-150 truck grand prize for the 3M 2012 Made in America Tape ...

This story appears in the June 13 print edition of Equipment & Maintenance Update, a supplement to Transport Topics. Industry exhibitions of trucking technology would not be the same without trucks ...

The Department of Energy’s SuperTruck project is producing technological changes, including to auxiliary power units, and these changes will be working their way into standard truck manufacturing, ...