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The 50th Mid-America Trucking Show (MATS) held from 24-26 March at Louisville, Kentucky, USA, was a celebration of the entire truck industry, honouring the people, and companies who built up this industry and made MATS the largest and longest running annual truck show event. To mark the occasion and the many outstanding professionals that have made significant contributions to the road transport industry and MATS, the Show Management put together the first ever MATS Wall of Fame.

All inductees were featured on a commemorative Wall of Fame at MATS 50th, and will be permanently preserved on a digital wall on the

Wall of Fame revealed at the 50th Mid-America Trucking Show (MATS)

MATS website.

Hundreds of nominations were submitted by attendees, exhibitors, and other industry partners. The list includes nominations ranging from historical figures and trucking “legends” to modern day trucking professionals who are already influencing the future of trucking.

The Wall of Fame selection committee, which includes the historical expertise of the American Truck Historical Society, reviewed the nominations to determine the 2022 inductees.

Since 1972, MATS -- Mid-America Trucking Show has become the world’s largest and longest running annual heavy-duty truck event. MATS is the place to experience everything from new technologies to networking with industry thought leaders. This is where the industry’s largest brands and promising start-ups do business, form partnerships, and make meaningful

connections. Over 900 exhibitors and more than 70,000 attendees experience MATS each year, making it the education and innovation centre of the North American road transport industry.

ZF Celebrates 500,000th TraXon Transmission System Produced in Friedrichshafen

Friedrichshafen, Germany. ZF’s Commercial Vehicle Solutions (CVS) division has achieved a major global production milestone with its leading TraXon transmission system for truck and coach applications. Half a million TraXon systems have now been manufactured in Friedrichshafen alone since production began there in 2014. A successful product for commercial vehicles, TraXon’s volume production further underlines vehicle manufacturers’ and fleet operators’ trust in the company’s advanced systems expertise.

“Having begun production in Friedrichshafen in 2014, TraXon is now a globally produced success story offering next level transmission efficiency standards. Passing the half-million systems mark in just one of our production facilities is a powerful achievement which further underlines ZF’s global technology systems leadership,” said Winfried Gründler who is responsible for the driveline systems product line with ZF’s Commercial Vehicle Solutions division. “Light, strong, and intelligent, TraXon’s groundbreaking technology is supporting growing worldwide customer demand for efficient systems and helping ensure they have the most advanced trucks on the road.”

“As a comprehensive supplier of intelligent mechanical systems, combining our deep transmission expertise as well as our advanced digital capabilities will ensure that vehicle manufacturers and fleet operators continue to gain real added value with TraXon, now and in the future,” added Mr. Gründler.

The transmission system offers many technological advantages such as top-level efficiency of up to 99.7%, lower fuel consumption, as well as strong design quality and reliability. In addition, it features ZF’s innovative PreVision GPS shifting strategy for high energy savings. With these features, the TraXon Automated Manual Transmission (AMT) system delivers energy efficiency and value in terms of TCO (Total Cost of Ownership). Its digitalised package also enables predictive maintenance. Compared to a manual transmission, TraXon can thus reduce consumption by up to 8%.