Posts Tagged ‘Jan-2009’

January 1st, 2009

The Future is Now

By Tom O'Brien, President and CEO

Does anyone else remember when the year 2009 seemed like a ridiculously long way into the future? By then, according to the movies, we’d be traveling on hoverboards, vacationing on space stations throughout the galaxy and commuting in flying cars. Well here it is and nobody I know has a flying car. But there have been and will be plenty of changes in transportation, and trucks are leading the way as emissions standards keep getting tighter. TA has always been ready to deal with whatever tru…

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January 1st, 2009

How Low Can I Go?

A lesson in lowered fuel consumption

By David A. Kolman

There are three fundamental factors that affect a vehicle’s fuel consumption: the vehicle, driving conditions — which are outside the control of driver and vehicle — and driver operation. Believing myself to be a fuel-conscious driver, I was excited by the opportunity to participate in an Isuzu Motors Ecology and Economy Drive program at the manufacturer’s Wacom proving grounds in Hokkaido, Japan. The event was designed to demonstrate that focusing on specific, key driv…

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January 1st, 2009

Walk This Way

Following the herd takes on whole new meaning

Talk about herd mentality. When it comes to doing everything together, cows have just about everyone beat. From sleeping and eating to huddling together when it rains, cattle cope through their day-to-day activities as, well, a herd. But now it seems they do all of these things facing in the same direction. Images from Google Earth have confirmed that cattle tend to align their bodies in the magnetic north-south direction, leading researchers to believe that they have an internal magnetic compas…

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