EURO TRUCK OF THE YEAR March 3, 2014 November 18, 2009 Vol. 5, No. 23 Let’s start the proceedings on the international scene. Motor noters in Europe have chosen the Scania R Series as Truck of the Year…
LOCKWOOD SITS DOWN March 3, 2014 December 1, 2010 Vol. 6, No. 24 Way back in January or so I told you about a wildly interesting truck seat emanating from a very unlikely source. Bose, a…
WHAT’S WASTE-HEAT RECOVERY? March 3, 2014 October 20, 2010 Vol. 6, No. 21 Ever heard of exhaust waste heat recovery? You will soon, because every North American truck engine maker is pursuing it as a way…
HYBRIDS OVER-RUN DEARBORN March 3, 2014 <em>October 6, 2010 Vol. 6, No. 20</em> I don’t bring my groceries home in one of those odd fabric’ish reusable bags that many folks are hauling around these days. A…
NO SHORTAGE OF ACTION March 3, 2014 November 4, 2009 Vol. 5, No. 22 For what is normally a ‘slow’ period in our beleaguered industry, things are actually hopping. No surprise, of course, given the pressures to…
COMPUTER IN THE CAB March 3, 2014 September 8, 2010 Vol. 6, No. 18 Well, suddenly there’s some serious and intriguing action at both PeopleNet and Qualcomm/Shaw Tracking. And some useful developments at Mack, also on the…
RETURN OF THE GLIDER KIT March 3, 2014 October 21, 2009 Vol. 5, No. 21 Gee whiz, my last newsletter effort (‘Where’s the Leadership,’ Oct. 7) seems to have struck a chord with a lot of folks. Two…
THE GAS TURBINE IS BACK? March 3, 2014 August 11, 2010 Vol. 6, No. 17 Seasonal yo-yo routines continue on the truck sales front, same with trailers, and we’re still a long way off the levels we saw…
TECHNOLOGIES TO EXPLORE March 3, 2014 August 11, 2010 Vol. 6, No. 16 Well, after writing a veritable novel last time about the EPA/CARB hearings in California, I’m going to keep it relatively short and possibly…
SCR, EGR: WHY NOT BOTH? March 3, 2014 August 12, 2009 Vol. 5, No. 17 No choice really but to start with the recent revelation that Navistar will offer selective catalytic reduction (SCR) emissions control on its engines…
THE EMISSIONS WAR WON’T STOP March 3, 2014 July 28, 2010 Vol. 6, No. 15 Oh boy, here we go again. Being a mature fellow with many miles under my shoe leather, I should have known that the…
THE QUALITY PROOF IS IN THE PUDDING March 3, 2014 August 12, 2009 Vol. 5, No. 16 So I spent a couple of days recently at my favorite fixture on the summer schedule of outdoor truck shows, the Rodeo du…
SOFTWARE AND SUSPENSIONS March 3, 2014 July 14, 2010 Vol. 6, No. 14 Things have been rather quiet lately on the hardware front, but then again it’s summer so I shouldn’t be surprised. It’s not…
NAVISTAR COUNTERPUNCHES March 3, 2014 July 29, 2009 Vol. 5, No. 15 In the seemingly endless war of words between the EGR and SCR camps, decorum has not always been evident. The rhetoric has occasionally…
BEWARE SUPPOSED EXPERTS March 3, 2014 June 30, 2010 Vol. 6, No. 13 Natural gas has become what biodiesel was just a couple of years back, a politically popular source of fire in the bellies of…
