TMC REPORT: IT’S ALL ABOUT SCR March 3, 2014 February 11, 2009 Vol. 5, No. 3 From deep in the Land of Mouse comes interesting news about a very light flatdeck with all sorts of innovations, about retrofittable roll…
THE BUZZ IS ELECTRIC March 3, 2014 September 23, 2009 Vol. 5, No. 19 Let me start with praise for what seems to me like a very useful gizmo that you’ll see described in greater detail in…
WHAT WILL 2009 HOLD? March 3, 2014 December 31, 2008 Vol. 4, No. 27 So here we are at the end of a year that won’t be remembered fondly. Good riddance, you might say. Trouble is, the…
FINALLY, SOME BIG NEWS March 3, 2014 September 9, 2009 Vol. 5, No. 18 It’s been a mostly gray day here in Battle Creek, Michigan but the folks at Eaton Corp. have been smiling broadly nonetheless. That’s…
OPTIMISM, HYBRIDS & BIOFUELS March 3, 2014 June 17, 2009 Vol. 5, No. 12 First, my hat’s off to Kenworth for introducing a new truck at a time when a lot of folks have battened down the…
ENGINES, ALGAE, & SCOTCH March 3, 2014 December 17, 2008 Vol. 4, No. 26 These days it’s hard to see through the haze of economic woe — and those nasty visions of a later retirement than I’d…
NOBODY BELIEVES ANYBODY? March 3, 2014 May 6, 2009 Vol. 5, No. 9 As if on cue, I had an e-mail a week ago back from the purchasing chief of a prominent Canadian company looking for…
ADVENTURES IN ENGINEERING March 3, 2014 April 22, 2009 Vol. 5, No. 8 Montreal in April isn’t quite the same as springtime in Paris, and not just because they speak two different brands of French. You’ll…
CAT GOES TRUCKIN’ AGAIN March 3, 2014 April 8, 2009 Vol. 5, No. 7 Hey, there’s big news to report from deep in the American heartland, namely Illinois. You’ll remember that Caterpillar and Navistar announced last June…
LET’S TALK UREA March 3, 2014 November 19, 2008 Vol. 4, No. 24 Amidst all the fury and fear-mongering about our woeful state of financial affairs, and I mean pretty much the entire industrialized world, one…
POWER, ONE WAY OR ANOTHER March 3, 2014 January 28, 2009 Vol. 5, No. 2 Last time out I told you that the Maxxforce 15 engine that Navistar International announced to analysts a couple of weeks ago was…
NOT JUST HYBRIDS March 3, 2014 November 5, 2008 Vol. 4, No. 23 I’M GOING TO GIVE HYBRIDS A REST for a bit. Well, almost. Can’t avoid them entirely. Honestly, I think this newsletter has been…
DOES CAT HAVE ANOTHER LIFE? March 3, 2014 January 14, 2009 Vol. 5, No. 1 Oh boy. And oh boy again. Things are getting mighty interesting on the engine front. As if they weren’t that way already. Predictably,…
HANNOVER REPORT, PART TWO March 3, 2014 October 8, 2008 Vol. 4, No. 21 Last time out I offered a preliminary report after the first of two press days at the huge IAA Commercial Vehicles Show…
’07 ENGINES TO LAST LONGER? March 3, 2014 December 3, 2008 Vol. 4, No. 25 No, I don’t mean by the headline above that the engines of our present emissions standard are more durable than others, though that…
