- Ride quality
- Off-tracking
- Steady state and transient response to steering
- The rollover process with the influence of slosh and shifting loads
- Multi-Unit Vehicles
- Functional vehicle control
- Interaction with highway geometric features
- Connected vehicles
- Braking response
- Brake force distribution
- Downhill braking
- Stopping distance
- Simplifying assumptions
- Unit truck and articulated vehicle models
- Categories of performance
- Subsystems of the vehicle
- Terminology, sign conventions, symbols
- Overview of vehicle dynamics theory
- Contrasts between motor car and heavy truck
- Mechanics of the heavy truck tire
- Behavior of heavy truck suspensions
- Kinematics and mechanics of steering systems
- Heavy vehicle brake system basics
- Thermal capacity
- Electronic control systems