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Michelin Wins Truck Writers' Technical Achievement Award
ARLINGTON, Va. — Michelin's Durable Technologies’s XDA5 drive tire was announced as this the 2008 recipient of the Truck Writers of North America's Technical Achievement Award during TMC’s 2008 Annual Meeting in Orlando, Fla., Feb. 4-7.
Doug Jones, Michelin's customer engineering support manager, accepted the award on behalf of Michelin. The award recognizes a product or service that exhibits technical innovation, has a wide applicability to the trucking industry, offers significant benefits to users and is widely available. Complete vehicles are not eligible, but individual components and systems are.
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Doug Jones, Michelin's customer engineering support manager, accepts the Truck Writers of North America Technical Achievement Award on behalf of Michelin for the tiremaker’s XDA5 drive tire. Presenting the award are TWNA representatives Paul Abelson (left) and Tom Berg (right).
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The XDA5 drive tire is molded in three dimensions. As the tire wears, the tread reveals new grooves and tread blocks, giving the tire a second life, self-regenerating to improve wet, worn traction. According the Michelin, the self-regenerating tread can extend tread life by as much as 30 percent.
This year's selection committee consisted of: Paul Abelson, Road King & Land Line; Tom Berg, Heavy Duty Trucking; Eric Berard, Berard Communications; John Baxter, Randall-Reilly Publishing, Tom Gelinas, Fleet Equipment; and James Menzies, Truck News and Truck West.
Finalists for the award included: the Andersen Eco-Flap; ArvinMeritor's PinLoc System; EHS Industries' Galvanized Trailer; Michelin's Durable Technologies; Ruehl's Sturdy Steps; and Traction Technologies' Cinch.
TMC, a technical council of American Trucking Associations, is North America's premier technical society for truck equipment technology and maintenance professionals. TMC features a diverse membership of equipment managers, service-dealers, owner-operators, technicians, industry suppliers and manufacturers, educators, academia and others that support the trucking industry. TMC member fleets represent the broad range of industry vocations, including truckload, less-than-truckload, municipal, private, on/off-highway, construction and other operations. Find out more about TMC online at http://tmc.truckline.com.
American Trucking Associations, the national trade association for the trucking industry, is a federation of affiliated state trucking associations, conferences and organizations that includes more than 37,000 motor carrier members representing every type and class of motor carrier in the country. ATA serves the interests of more than nine million people and 420,000 companies involved in trucking before Congress, the courts and regulatory agencies. http://www.truckline.com