Heavy Duty Trucking, April 2019
very once in a while design engineers step up to the plate and knock the ball clean out of the park Thats the case with the Technology Maintenance Councils Vehicle Maintenance and Reporting System known as VMRS The coding system was developed in 1970 as fleet maintenance professionals at the time recognized the need for a common language platform that could help them identify and communicate a myriad of maintenance issues from the causes of failures to corrective measures as well as identifying operating systems equipment and the various types of work that needs to be performed on each of them It was a massive and important assignment for the committee tasked with inventing the new language Being engineers its only natural that they settled on a numeric code But Jack Poster TMCs VMRS Services Manager for TMC which still owns administers and updates the codes marvels at how astute a choice those developers made I dont know how far into the future those VMRS founders were thinking when they developed those codes Poster says In fact I dont know if they were thinking about the future at all But it is remarkable that they sat down to develop a way VMRS How a set of codes developed nearly 50 years ago will change the way you spec and maintain trucks By Jack Roberts Senior Editor jroberts@ truckinginfo com HDT APRIL 2019 58 WWW TRUCKINGINFO COM E CRACKING THE CODE PHOTO ISTOCKPHOTO COM
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