AN ADVENTURE ABROAD March 3, 2014 September 10, 2008 Vol. 4, No. 19 LET’S START WITH SOME GOOD NEWS, an all too rare phenomenon these days. It’s not a huge deal, I’ll admit, but if you’re…
NEW FACTORY SHOWS THE WAY March 3, 2014 August 28, 2008 Vol. 4, No. 18 FIRST OFF, MY APOLOGIES to all for the troubles we had with my last e-newsletter on Aug. 13. Actually, it should have gone…
HYBRIDS COMING OF AGE March 3, 2014 October 22, 2008 Vol. 4, No. 22 My brain’s buzzing, folks, after attending yet another information-intensive event last week. There’s just so much to write about these days and so…
HANNOVER REPORT, DAY ONE March 3, 2014 September 24, 2008 Vol. 4, No. 20 Predictably, the 62nd incarnation of the IAA Commercial Vehicles Show here in Hannover, Germany seems to be dominated by issues of fuel and…
CUMMINS SAYS ‘YES’ TO SCR March 3, 2014 August 13, 2008 Vol. 4, No. 17 WOW! BIG NEWS out of Indiana hit the street today as Cummins announced that it’s going to use selective catalytic reduction (SCR) technology…
LET THERE BE LED LIGHT March 3, 2014 July 30, 2008 Vol. 4, No. 16 Well, somebody’s finally done it. An LED headlamp is actually in production. Who knows how much it will cost, but Truck-Lite has a…
IT’S A WRITER’S EURO LIFE March 3, 2014 July 16, 2008 Vol. 4, No. 15 So there I was, strapped into the seat of a Kamaz Paris-Dakar rally truck, five-point harness and all, with a somewhat crazed but…
CAT DROPS A BOMBSHELL March 3, 2014 June 18, 2008 Vol. 4, No. 13 Even though some of us, actually quite a few of us, expected it would happen, Caterpillar’s announcement this past week had a certain…
THE CAT/NAVISTAR DEAL REVISITED March 3, 2014 July 02, 2008 Vol. 4, No. 14 Not a lot of earth-shattering news to report this time, not like my last newsletter. Two weeks ago the subject was a meaty…
IT’S ALL ABOUT FUEL March 3, 2014 June 4, 2008 Vol. 4, No. 12 There’s nothing like the pressure of rapidly rising fuel prices to engender creativity in both the engineering and marketing offices of companies that…
HYBRIDS GET TRACTION March 3, 2014 May 21, 2008 Vol. 4, No. 11 Getting traction is what it’s all about, no matter what the endeavor, and the hybrid truck idea is getting lots of it these…
DRIVER TRAINING HITS THE CAB March 3, 2014 May 7, 2008 Vol. 4, No. 10 Today’s e-newsletter is going to focus on simple news for a change, though ‘simple’ may not be the right word to use…
FUELS AND HYBRIDS AGAIN March 3, 2014 April 23, 2008 Vol. 4, No. 9 There’s no crashing new technology issue to discuss this time out, but fuel issues continue to dominate everywhere I turn. I’m bothered…
BOLD TRUCKS, BOLD PROMISE March 3, 2014 March 26, 2008 Vol. 4, No. 7 Since I was a kid, I’ve been a sucker for tough trucks. At the age of five, I probably figured every truck looked…
SCR vs EGR, THAT IS THE QUESTION March 3, 2014 April 9, 2008 Vol. 4, No. 8 With a huge sigh of relief, I can tell you that the 37th annual Mid-America Trucking Show has come and gone. I say…
