A roadmap for lightweighting commercial vehicles is now available from the National Truck
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Steve Spata, NTEA’s technical assistant director
Equipment Association.
Steve Spata, the NTEA’s technical assistant director, recently prepared a white paper on the subject than can be accessed on the NTEA’s website.
Titled, “Vehicle lightweighting — A critical path to success,” the white paper focuses primarily on vehicles with gross vehicle weight ratings of 10,000 pounds or less. This reflects a trend toward smaller vehicles, driven in part by new regulations such electronic data logging for hours of service. Also driving that downsizing trend are efforts to recruit new drivers who might be attracted to lighter vehicles with more comfortable interiors, Spata writes.
For more information, visit www.ntea.com.