ATA’s Technology & Maintenance Council is nearing the culmination of a multiyear effort to define the evolutionary direction of tractor-trailer connectivity, even as more advanced technologies are becoming — or soon will be — available in the marketplace.
The council’s recent Annual Meeting and Transportation Technology Exhibition in Orlando, Fla., helped spur significant progress toward solidifying that definition.
The Next Generation Tractor-Trailer Interface Task Force of TMC’s S.1 Electrical Study Group held an important session Feb.28, marking the start of a process to evaluate potential concepts for a new connector to replace the long-standing SAE J560 standard connection that TMC and American Trucking Associations members helped pioneer several decades ago.
