Through the 1950s, all domestic trucks featured a ladder frame with leaf springs front and rear. These semi-elliptic springs arch below the framerails. The steering knuckles pivot on kingpins at each ...

[Stay on top of transportation news: Get TTNews in your inbox.] Shaving off weight has become a central objective of truck component design, and nowhere is that “lightweighting” trend more apparent ...

The '80-'96 Ford Twin-Traction Beam (TTB) front suspension uses a swing arm design that's become the foundation for thousands of long-travel four-wheel-drive suspensions over the years. Ford's TTB ...

Kenworth announced Sunday at the Technology & Maintenance Council (TMC) meeting in Nashville, Tenn., its T370 is now available with Meritor’s non-drive front steer axles rated from 16,000- to ...

I woke up this morning to the headline "Check your 6, Wrangler; Ford Bronco will have solid axles, too," at which point I began writing in all caps and shouting with joy that the gods were granting ...

Axle: A shaft on which a wheel revolves. A live axle sends engine power to the wheels; a dead axle does not. In front wheel drive cars the front axles drive the wheels and thus are "live" axles. The ...