{"id":3030,"date":"2017-05-11T11:07:48","date_gmt":"2017-05-11T15:07:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/transcourt.com\/?p=3030"},"modified":"2025-06-24T14:31:01","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T18:31:01","slug":"how-to-combat-rust-and-corrosion-on-your-trucks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/transcourt.com\/fr\/2017\/05\/how-to-combat-rust-and-corrosion-on-your-trucks\/","title":{"rendered":"How to combat rust and corrosion on your trucks"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 778px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.trucknews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/corrosion-768x587.jpg\" width=\"768\" height=\"587\" alt=\"corrosion\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image curtesy of Trucknews.com<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Every company has a budget for truck maintenance. This includes the replacement cost for brake parts, wheels, electronic-related items, and more. What\u2019s often not included in the budget is rust prevention.<\/p>\n<p>Corrosion, however, is a very costly problem to fix. In fact, it is a $2.2-trillion industrial problem.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe approximate cost of corrosion to U.S society that year [2011] was $460 billion,\u201d said Zane McCarthy, a mechanical engineer and corrosion expert.<\/p>\n<p>McCarthy estimates the cost of corrosion from buildings, roads, and industrial equipment. While corrosion has always been a concern, it has become increasingly problematic over the last seven to eight years. Since the introduction of corrosive road de-icing chemicals that are mixed with binding agents, these chemicals keep material from flowing off the road, but causes corrosion and rust on vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>Penske Truck Leasing has switched to air disc brakes from wide-block S-cam brakes to help control the rust problem.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe decided to try air disc brakes on a few trucks operating up in the northeast, where those chemicals are used, and we saw a reduction in downtime and repair costs in the first year, said Paul Rosa, the president of Penske Truck Leasing.<\/p>\n<p>Magnesium chloride is another problematic chemical, as it\u2019s more conductive than sodium. It is attracted to electricity and copper, therefore spreads faster.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of throwing money at the problem to try and fix it, there are cost-effective solutions to consider.<\/p>\n<p>McCarthy suggests replacing parts if they study their own corrosion issues, develop a plan to tackle them, or better understand what parts are failing and why.<\/p>\n<p>Source: Todaystrucking.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every company has a budget for truck maintenance. This includes the replacement cost for brake parts, wheels, electronic-related items, and more. 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