It's a worthwhile exercise: if you're athletic enough to do it, congratulations! For the rest of us, just drape yourself backward over a chair or a footstool, and look at your familiar world in an unfamiliar way - upside down. Chances are, you'll discover something new by changing your point of view.

That's what we're doing with this issue of Real Answers - looking at things in a new way. We begin by examining our new alliance with iFLEET.net, and how it promises to make big-fleet computer capabilities available to every fleet, regardless of size.

Then, we'll visit with Smith Transport, and learn how it combines the highest of tech with the most traditional of customer service.

And, though we might regard wheels as one of the oldest technologies around, our friends at Accuride and Alcoa show us there's nothing unsophisticated about today's truck wheels.
With today's seesawing fuel prices, should you buy tires for fuel economy or tread life? We'll show you a computer program that lets you take both factors into account - and that produces some surprising answers.

We'll also see how a fresh look at scrap tires can teach us how to make better tire choices, and how learning to read load and inflation tables can help keep tires out of the scrap pile a bit longer.

Turn the page, and let's start looking at some new things - and some old things - in a whole new way!