THE LOCKWOOD REPORT March 3, 2014 BIODIESEL, AND A NEW WESTERN STAR May 9, 2012 Vol. 8, No. 10 Bet you didn’t celebrate National Biodiesel Day, did you? Yeah, I missed it too. March 18th if…
THE LOCKWOOD REPORT March 3, 2014 March 14, 2012 Vol. 8, No. 6 There’s lots going on these days, so let’s dig right in. And I’ll start with gaseous fuels powering little trucks. My recent back…
THE LOCKWOOD REPORT March 3, 2014 February 29, 2012 Vol. 8, No. 5 There’s a ‘weasel clause’ at the end of this newsletter in which I state what should be obvious: that I don’t explicitly or…
THE LOCKWOOD REPORT March 3, 2014 February 15, 2012 Vol. 8, No. 4 Partly because I’ve just had surgery and can’t sit at the keyboard for long, and partly because I’ve been dying to write about…
THE LOCKWOOD REPORT March 3, 2014 Well, well, well… somebody has put together what looks like a pretty comprehensive strategy that directly links the trucks, the fuel, and the customers just as natural gas is hitting…
THE LOCKWOOD REPORT March 3, 2014 January 18, 2012 Vol. 8, No. 2 Well, barely a couple of weeks into the year and we already have significant news to talk about on the hardware front. That’s…
THE LOCKWOOD REPORT March 3, 2014 January 4, 2012 Vol. 8, No. 1 First off, let me wish you all a productive and prosperous new year. A happy one too, of course. Wish I could tell…
THE LOCKWOOD REPORT March 3, 2014 December 21, 2011 Vol. 7, No. 30 Well, here we are, almost at the end of what has been a pretty eventful year. In my last newsletter of 2010 I…
SKIRTS AND SCALES March 3, 2014 November 30, 2011 Vol. 7, No. 28 We’re changing things here, folks. Every second week, and this is the first example, we’re simply going to present 10 of the latest…
ANOTHER TAKE ON WHEEL INTEGRITY March 3, 2014 November 23, 2011 Vol. 7, No. 27 First off, before I forget, a clarification about the coming availability of Hino’s two new trucks that I told you about last…
AN ELECTRIC TRUCK FOR FREE March 3, 2014 November 16, 2011 Vol. 7, No. 26 Well, I exaggerate quite a lot with that headline, though not as much as you might think. Nothing except unwanted advice is ever…
WHEEL SECURITY AND A REACH March 3, 2014 November 9, 2011 Vol. 7, No. 25 A review of simple wheel-security tools was my main topic last time out, and I chose to do that because… well, with safety…
BIG ISSUE, SIMPLE FIXES March 3, 2014 November 2, 2011 Vol. 7, No. 24 Wheel security will always be an issue, in spite of endless service bulletins and instructional videos and training programs. I mean, truck wheels…
THE LOCKWOOD REPORT March 3, 2014 DOES ANYONE NOT LIKE OLD TRUCKS? When you get right down to it, I’m probably much the same as a lot of you folks. I just plain like trucks. The…
T. BOONE AND WILLIE March 3, 2014 October 26, 2011 Vol. 7, No. 23 Within about 38 seconds of meeting Willie Nelson, you’d be talking biofuels. If you happened upon T. Boone Pickens, you’d be into a…