Millions of dollars’ worth of equipment and cargo goes up in smoke every year because of wheel-end fires, euphemistically called thermal events. You’ll see it on the news or social media, with ...

As temperatures rise in the summer months, so does the amount of strain placed on your wheel ends. According to industry data, summer-related wheel-end failures increase by up to 30% during peak heat ...

The Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance (CVSA) has announced this year’s International Roadcheck inspection blitz will be held May 17-19 with a focus on wheel ends ...

While wheel separations remain statistically rare events, they inconveniently tend to occur in very public places. Most ...

The routine maintenance requirements of all equipment need to be considered in the initial system design. If equipment is difficult to maintain, chances are it will be ignored, reducing the ...

The lowly and often taken-for-granted wheel bearing hasn’t really changed much in design or function since the dawn of the automotive age save the move to incorporate them into wheel hub and bearing ...

As routine maintenance and basic automotive servicing tasks go, packing wheel bearings isn't one of the glamorous ones. It's a messy job—and one that could cause serious damage or problems if not ...

Wheel fires can be caused by brake, bearing, and tire problems. And they’re all avoidable. Wheel end fires, while uncommon, are not rare. They usually make the papers and the TV news websites, though.