AN INTERNATIONAL TOUR March 3, 2014 May 5, 2010 Vol. 6, No. 9 Despite the dreaded code on my boarding pass that told the rabid security folks at the airport to give me everything but a…
A TRUCK WORLD REPORT March 3, 2014 April 21, 2010 Vol. 6, No. 8 Man, life’s been busy in the last month or so. First, the Work Truck Show in mid-March, then Mid America late last month,…
NECESSITY, INVENTION, ETC. March 3, 2014 May 11, 2011 Vol. 7, No. 10 You’ve got to love necessity. It has this wonderfully causal relationship to invention, and bears that child absolutely every time it arises. Like…
ANOTHER COOL ENGINE March 3, 2014 April 27, 2011 Vol. 7, No. 9 Last time out I teased a bit with brief mention of another new engine design, the very intriguing Scuderi split-cycle engine, yet…
THE VOCATIONAL WORLD’S BUZZING March 3, 2014 March 30, 2011 Vol. 7, No. 7 Holy moly, could there be any more to write about than what I see these days? I can’t remember a time when this…
BUSY IN ST. LOUIS March 3, 2014 March 10, 2010 Vol. 6, No. 5 So here I am in rainy downtown St. Louis preparing to attend the Green Truck Summit and the Work Truck Show, all under…
WORK TRUCKS HIT THE STAGE March 3, 2014 March 16, 2011 Vol. 7, No. 6 Highlights weren’t in short supply at last week’s Work Truck Show, which seems to grow every year. It’s certainly been drawing a…
THE MX, AND A NIFTY FIFTH WHEEL March 3, 2014 February 10, 2010 Vol. 6, No. 3 Had a fine time in the balmy Pacific Northwest last week as I attended the official launch of the PACCAR MX engine in…
A GAME CHANGER ENGINE? March 3, 2014 March 2, 2011 Vol. 7, No. 5 Well, well, well… Navistar has just thrown us an interesting bone with last week’s announcement that it’s now involved in the development…
ANOTHER ENGINE JOINS THE FRAY March 3, 2014 January 27, 2010 Vol. 6, No. 2 The heavy-duty engine business, as if it wasn’t already pretty interesting, just got more so with the announcement that PACCAR’s 12.9-litre MX…
GETTING DOWN TO EARTH March 3, 2014 January 19, 2011 Vol. 7, No. 2 Learned a lesson the other day. Or re-learned an old one, I suppose, about the nature of people who own and operate trucks.
NAVISTAR GOING TO SCR AFTER ALL? March 3, 2014 December 30, 2009 Vol. 5, No. 26 Just before Christmas a pretty interesting story cropped up, namely the news that Navistar has entered into a development and supply agreement with…
A GREAT DECADE IS COMING March 3, 2014 January 5, 2011 Vol. 7, No. 1 Wow, can’t believe I’m launching the seventh volume of this e-newsletter, this quasi-blog, this thing that’s really just an expression of my fascination…
NEXT YEAR’S BIG NEWS March 3, 2014 December 29, 2010 Vol. 6, No. 26 FIRST OFF, I hope you all had a fine Christmas or whatever else it is that you celebrate at this time of year.
MEMORIES OF FINLAND March 3, 2014 December 15, 2010 Vol. 6, No. 25 Way back in time, like 1985, I had a day that remains one of the best ever, and it involved a truck that…
