Trucks: Illustrated History Books & Guides

Medium / Heavy Duty Truck Engines, Fuel & Computerized Management Systems

This is an essential guide for students, entry-level technicians, and experienced professionals. It covers the full spectrum of commercial diesel engines, from light- to heavy-duty, and explains the latest electronic management systems used in the industry.

The book includes dedicated chapters on natural gas fuel systems (CNG and LPG), alternative fuels, and hybrid drives. It also addresses current ASE and NATEF tasks and emphasizes modern multiplexed chassis technology.

With clear explanations and practical examples, this edition serves as a comprehensive reference for understanding, maintaining, and repairing commercial truck engines. It is a valuable resource for anyone pursuing a career in diesel engine service.

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Heavy Duty Truck Systems (6th Edition)

This comprehensive best-selling introduction to servicing medium- and heavy-duty trucks helps you develop a strong foundation in electricity and electronics, power train, steering and suspension, brakes, and accessories systems and presents introductory material on servicing, safety, tools, and preventive maintenance.
You'll also find full coverage of NATEF competencies and the latest technology, including 2014 J1939 updates and access tools, Wingman radar, CMS, and Allison TC10 transmissions (introduced in 2013). You will master key topics and servicing procedures with extensive sets of review questions.

Contains over 1700 full color photographs and pieces of art.

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Features:
- Focuses on prognostic maintenance, reflecting current trucking industry practices.
- Covers the latest battery technology, changes in electronic service tools, collision avoidance technologies, and service information systems (SISs).
- Provides an introduction to Eaton DM clutches and comprehensive coverage of Caterpillar's new highway vocational transmissions (CX family).
- Includes reefer cryogenics and BlueCool-type heat exchanges.
- Features the most comprehensive glossary of any other trucking book on the market.
- Includes standard-to-metric values (metric in brackets) throughout except CVSA and FMVSS compliance specs.

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Truck and Trailer Systems Lab Manual - Electrical, Chassis, Drive Line, and PMI

This illustrated guide contains over 100 hands-on lab exercises designed for aspiring medium- and heavy-duty truck service technicians. The exercises meet and exceed NATEF standards, covering all major systems, including electrical, lighting, brakes, and transmissions.

Each lab provides a clear objective, safety guidelines, a list of required tools, and review questions that reinforce key concepts. The review questions are modeled on the ASE Medium/Heavy Duty Truck Certification exams (T3-T8).

Written by an experienced automotive and diesel technician and instructor, this manual offers practical training and complements the comprehensive textbook, "Truck and Trailer Systems", making it an essential resource for students and professionals alike.

"Truck and Trailer Systems Lab Manual" covers:
- Vehicle identification numbers
- Engine, transmission, and drive axle ID tag numbers
- SafetyTools and measuring equipment
- Basic electrical
- Magnetism
- Batteries
- Starting system
- Charging system
- Lighting and wiring
- Computer systems
- Mobile heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning systems
- Tires, wheels, and wheel end systems
- Frames and suspensions
- Steering systems
- Trailers and fifth wheels
- Hydraulic brake systems
- Air brake foundation brakes
- Air brake air system
- Anti-lock brake systems
- Drive linesClutches
- Drive axles
- Single and twin countershaft manual transmissions
- Automated manual transmissions
- Automatic transmissions
- Allison automatic transmissions
- PMI
- Auxiliary power units.

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Das große Buch der Lkw-Technik

The diversity of truck technology at a glance: The development of the truck, including its engines and chassis, driver's cabs and trailers, is described in this overview - from the beginnings to the present day.

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Commercial vehicle expert Erich Hoepke uses text and images to illustrate how almost every challenge of modern freight transport has been solved technically: various transport tasks, but also the safety aspect and the design of the driver's cab as the driver's workplace. This unique book is rounded off with a look at technical innovations in the near future.

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Fachkunde Nutzfahrzeugtechnik

This work is divided into 16 chapters. The book is intended to serve as a reference work for journeymen, masters and technicians in the automotive trade and professional drivers as well as students of automotive technology, to obtain information and to supplement their specialist knowledge. The work is intended to enable anyone interested in automotive technology to expand their specialist knowledge through self-study.

The selected learning content is aimed at both the job profile of the automotive mechatronics technician with a focus on commercial vehicle technology and the job profile of the professional driver.

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The book's main focus is on:
- the classification of commercial vehicles, dimensions and weights of commercial vehicles
- vehicle structure including trailer and fifth wheel couplings
- chassis including central lubrication
- compressed air brake systems including electronically controlled braking systems (EBS), continuous braking systems including retarders
- diesel engines including mixture preparation, pollutant reduction/exhaust gas aftertreatment including diesel particulate filters and selective catalytic reduction (SCR)
- alternative drives including natural gas drives
- drive train including commercial vehicle transmissions
- electrical system including data bus systems, data and control devices
- driver assistance, safety and comfort systems
- additional equipment including tail lifts
- vehicle recovery
- statutory inspections including safety inspections
- English technical terms.

From the wealth of material, the subject areas were selected in terms of scope and content so that they meet the requirements of the reorganization according to learning fields. When it comes to the fundamentals of automotive engineering, the work builds on the specialist knowledge of automotive engineering.

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