Announcements

Here are the listings of Station Winners from TMCSuperTech 2023 and Day 1 Finalists for the Heavy-Duty Track who will move onto Day 2's Hands-On Skills Challenge.

https://tmc.trucking.org/news

TMC's 2023 Fall Meeting & National Technician Skills Competitions is just days away.  See you in Cleveland Sept. 17-21, 2023.

TMC Offers Members New Opportunity for Online, Fleet-Focused Cybersecurity Training

Council Working with SERJON, LLC to Provide Members Access to Cybersecurity Certification Training at a Discounted Price.

American Trucking Associations’ Technology & Maintenance Council (TMC) and SERJON, LLC announce a new collaborative effort to bring commercial vehicle cybersecurity training to TMC, American Trucking Associations, and other ATA Council members. The collaboration provides their members access to the certification training at a discounted price.

SERJON designed the module-based cybersecurity training program to better enable practitioners and decisionmakers to secure and defend their business information technology systems, equipment and companies against threats and attacks, as well as to build incident response-capable and resilient organizations.

TMC's 2023 RP Manual Supplement Now Available to Members. Go under the Red Bar on the Home page on TMC Connect under RPs and Other Technical Reports and you can access the new Supplement online as part of your TMC member benefit package.

The direct link to the online manual is here. Bookmark it to have ready access to it without the need to go through TMC Connect.

Here's a quick item you might find interesting.

We surveyed TMC members recently about what were their top 5 maintenance concerns that keep them up at night.

Of those responding (with 85 possible choices from which to select) these were the top five reported in decending order:

-- 19 percent said Parts Shortage/Availability was the #1 issue.

-- 14 percent said Technician Shortage

-- 9.5 percent said Aftertreatment

-- 9.5 percent said Cost Containment

-- 9.5 percent said New Equipment Availability (Trucks, Tractors, Trailers)

Eight other selections were given as top concerns, but these all garnered less than 5 percent.

The eight were:

ADAS

Crash costs

Diagnostics

Emissions/GHG

Reliability

Root Cause Analysis

Technician Staffing

Technician Training

TMC IR 2023-1 Factors Affecting Aftertreatment Systems in Vocational Duty Cycles

This Information Report was developed by the S.14 Last Mile and Vocational Vehicles Study Group of ATA’s Technology & Maintenance Council (TMC). This document will examine the most common components of aftertreatment systems and how they can be impacted by the less-than-optimal conditions of the duty cycles of typical vocational applications. It will review the challenges related to meeting regulatory performance and monitoring requirements. It will also explore methods and reference existing TMC maintenance practices which can be used to mitigate these effects.

TMC's new 2023 Industry Reference Guide is now posted under the Periodicals tab on TMC Connect.  Hard copies of this, paired with TMC's 2023 Exhibit Directory are being mailed to all TMC members and will be available onsite at our 2023 annual meeting in Orlando Feb.27-March 2.