THE LOCKWOOD REPORT March 3, 2014 NO END TO NATURAL GAS NEWS April 10, 2013 Vol. 9, No. 7 First an admission: not long ago I was writing that, while it offered some clear advantages in…
INGENUITY RULES March 3, 2014 October 12, 2011 Vol. 7, No. 21 The world, it seems, likes this e-newsletter. Proof perhaps that there’s no accounting for taste. Lame irony aside, that means we’re going weekly,…
The Lockwood Report March 3, 2014 INTEGRATION TAKES A NEW TURN Well, I’ve been waiting for this one. Cummins and Eaton have combined forces to produce a powertrain package that will combat the…
CAT’S CT660 IS ON THE ROAD March 3, 2014 September 28, 2011 Vol. 7, No. 20 About a million years ago I spent a lot of time digging in the dirt underneath a peach tree in my backyard, a…
The Lockwood Report March 3, 2014 Alright, let me continue what I started a couple of weeks ago, the second half of a very personal selection, my favorite 10 new products of 2012. Like the first…
ROLL STABILITY IN THE SPOTLIGHT March 3, 2014 September 14, 2011 Vol. 7, No. 19 We’re getting somewhere in the fight to prevent truck rollovers, or at least I think we are. Witness, the recent U.S. National…
The Lockwood Report March 3, 2014 IT’S A SLIMY BUSINESS For the better part of a year now I’ve been resisting the urge to turn all evangelical on you in a Willie Nelson sort of…
FREIGHTLINER LOOKS AHEAD March 3, 2014 August 31, 2011 Vol. 7, No. 18 Freightliner is serious about fuel economy. By the 2015 model year, it says a Cascadia with an engine equivalent…
The Lockwood Report March 3, 2014 A RADICALLY LIGHT TRUCK FRAME October 10, 2012 Vol. 8, No. 21 Some of the world’s best truck journalism comes out of India, and while it rarely contains…
TRUCK #100,000 AT STE. THERESE March 3, 2014 August 3, 2011 Vol. 7, No. 16 First off, kudos to Kenworth for building the 100,000th medium-duty truck to come out of the PACCAR plant in Ste-Therese, Quebec,…
The Lockwood Report March 3, 2014 IAA HIGHLIGHTS: SLICK TRAILERS & MORE September 26, 2012 Vol. 8, No. 20 With an event as big as the IAA Commercial Vehicle Show in Hannover, Germany, it’s…
THE UNIMOG IS 60 YEARS OLD March 3, 2014 June 8, 2011 Vol. 7, No. 12 One of my all-time favorite trucks is a tough little bugger that doesn’t even haul freight and isn’t totally at home on the…
The Lockwood Report March 3, 2014 ZF’S TRAXON WILL IMPRESS AT IAA September 12, 2012 Vol. 8, No. 19 Among my life’s low points, few have ranked as far down as this one: I can’t make…
TO INDIA AND BACK March 3, 2014 May 25, 2011 Vol. 7, No. 11 OK, no engine talk this time out. Seems like I’ve written about almost nothing else for weeks now. That’s an exaggeration, and it’s…
TRAILERS, TRAILERS EVERYWHERE March 3, 2014 February 16, 2011 Vol. 7, No. 4 Well, my few days in Tampa for the annual TMC gathering have come and gone, and useful days they were even if…
