Category Archives: Useful Information

Bendix offers new Brake friction lines

Bendix will soon introduce a new three-level aftermarket friction portfolio, expanding its offerings to include friction engineered to meet every customer need for safety, performance and value.

The three performance levels are Bendix Basic Friction, Bendix Advanced Friction and Bendix OE Friction. Bendix Basic is a new line featuring an economy-grade friction designed to meet the market need for a product offering safety and performance at a lower price.

PeopleNet offers asset protection and driver well-being monitoring

PeopleNet  a leading provider of fleet mobility solutions that reduce cost per mile, improve safety/compliance and enable profitable fleet growth, announced that it is the first transportation industry technology provider to partner with SafeKey for helping customers protect assets and monitor driver well-being.

long road to recovery seen by European automakers

Europe’s car market is bottoming out after five years of falling demand, but high unemployment and weak bank lending suggest its recovery will be long and slow, executives at the Frankfurt auto show said.

Automakers have been hammered by Europe’s prolonged economic downturn, with sales falling sharply and profits suffering even more because of overcapacity.

Rude driving behaviours rampant on roads says Survey

Rude driving behaviors rampant on roads says Survey

Women drivers curse in front of their children and give fellow motorists the middle-finger more than men, according to a new Insurance.com survey.

Harvest time brings crashes between cars, farm machinery

There’s nothing like the sound of screeching brakes and the smell of burning rubber to get a farmer’s heart pounding when a car is coming up behind his tractor at 60 mph.

Often, the farmer can’t get out of the way as someone comes within a split second of crashing into the back end of a huge, slow-moving machine.