NOTES IN A POCKET March 3, 2014 August 1, 2007 Vol. 3, No. 15 Not a whole lot of cracking great news to impart this time out, but as always I’ve been gathering bits and pieces of…
YA GOTTA WONDER March 3, 2014 July 18, 2007 Vol. 3, No. 14 Before I get to the ‘Ya Gotta Wonder’ part of this piece, a word or three about my lead item here. Mack’s Idle…
WANTED: SLIPPERY TRAILERS March 3, 2014 July 4, 2007 Vol. 3, No. 13 Let me open with a stunner, not about a product but a much needed service. A dog wash. Or, presumably, a raccoon wash.
THERE’S NOTHING LIKE A NEW TRUCK March 3, 2014 May 9, 2007 Vol. 3, No. 9 For a hardware junkie like yours truly, a new truck – and I mean a really new truck – is a bit like…
TRUCKERS AS ENTREPRENEURS March 3, 2014 June 20, 2007 Vol. 3, No. 12 A bunch of decades ago when I’d been in this motor-noter game for just a couple of years, Tom Kleysen took me on…
OF BUYOUTS AND BIOFUELS March 3, 2014 June 6, 2007 Vol. 3, No. 11 Mostly tidbits this time out, my friends, as there’s been no earth-shattering development along product lines in the last couple of weeks.
WANTED: GOVERNMENT SUPPORT March 3, 2014 May 23, 2007 Vol. 3, No. 10 Sometimes I get jealous when I hear about the work going on in the United States and Europe to explore new technologies,…
PRODUCT LAUNCHES IN MONTREAL March 3, 2014 April 25, 2007 Vol. 3, No. 8 Don’t want to boast, but the Expocam 2007 truck show held in Montreal April 12-14 – a show we now own here at…
ENGINES, ENGINES EVERYWHERE March 3, 2014 April 11, 2007 Vol. 3, No. 7 There’s no getting around it: this is a diesel kind of year. It sometimes seems that I write about nothing else, and…
TRAINING AT A NEW LEVEL March 3, 2014 February 28, 2007 Vol. 3, No.5 More than a year ago Ron Gervais told me he was working with a training expert on a new air-brake instructional tool. There can’t…
LOOKING AHEAD March 3, 2014 January 4, 2007 Vol. 3, No. 1 First off, happy new year! So, it seems we’ve just launched ourselves into 2007. The year that took on a size and shape…
A REPORT FROM MID-AMERICA March 3, 2014 March 28, 2007 Vol. 3, No. 7 Last time out I covered the Work Truck Show in this newsletter and said that hybrid diesel/electric trucks had dominated the affair. Well,…
HYBRIDS RULE THE ROOST March 3, 2014 March 14, 2007 Vol. 3, No. 6 Not surprisingly, hybrid diesel/electric trucks dominated the Work Truck Show and 43rd annual convention of the National Truck Equipment Association (NTEA) in indianapolis…
THE HITS OF 2006 March 3, 2014 December 6, 2006 Vol. 2, No. 25 It’s nearly the end of 2006, so I thought I’d take a second look at just a very few of the year’s best…
A TMC REPORT, SORTA KINDA March 3, 2014 February 14, 2007 Vol. 3, No. 4 If life always ran as planned, right now I’d be starting to wax poetic about the annual meeting of TMC – the…
