Heavy Duty Truck Systems

Preparing students for lasting professional success, the author strongly emphasizes workplace safety--including concepts, standards, and best practices--throughout the text.

The text's end-to-end coverage includes a thorough introduction to truck chassis subsystems using a systems approach, as well as chapters or sections dedicated to electricity, electronics, multiplexing, hydraulics, drivetrain systems, and brake systems.

Detailed coverage of key truck components includes material on trailers, trailer coupling, and repair technology, as well as the new R-1234yf refrigerant being adopted in medium-duty trucks.

To help students master essential industry terminology and standards, the text features the most comprehensive glossary of any trucking book on the market, standard-to-metric values (with metric in brackets) integrated in chapter content, and abundant references to CVSA and FMVSS compliance.

A robust suite of instructor and student resources is available to accompany the text, including a comprehensive test bank, PowerPoint® slides for every chapter, 58 videos covering basic service procedures (via MindTap), a Student Workbook, and more.

The new edition details Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance (CVSA) requirements related to lockout tagout (LOTO) procedures for truck service facilities, providing useful grounding in these important safety practices.

The author has added detailed coverage of the American Trucking Associations' Technology & Maintenance Council (TMC) Vehicle Maintenance Reporting System (VMRS), giving students valuable exposure to important industry standards for code interpretation, condition-based maintenance (CBM), and prognostics telematics and maintenance.

The Seventh Edition includes new and updated material on current service techniques and technology, including guidelines for DIN wiring schematic interpretation, maintenance procedures and hardware changes for new A/C refrigerant R-1234yf (medium duty) systems, and use of digital oscilloscopes for electrical, electronic, and data bus analyses with PicoScope software as a primary reference.

Providing useful perspective on practical issues today's service technicians often encounter, the text explores the impact of electronic logging device (ELD) compliance and related service facility protocols.

The new edition includes up-to-date information on the latest technical advances, including cutting-edge wheel-end technology like intelligent wheel hubs (SmartHub) and dynamic wheel balancing systems, the five levels of semi- and fully autonomous trucks, and all-electric powertrains currently being introduced by the trucking industry.