Rolf Lockwood Author Gravatar Image THE LOCKWOOD REPORT by Rolf Lockwood BIODIESEL, AND A NEW WESTERN STAR May 9, 2012 Vol. 8, No. 10 Bet you didn’t celebrate National Biodiesel Day, did you? Yeah, I missed it too. March 18th if…
Rolf Lockwood Author Gravatar Image THE LOCKWOOD REPORT by Rolf Lockwood March 14, 2012 Vol. 8, No. 6 There’s lots going on these days, so let’s dig right in. And I’ll start with gaseous fuels powering little trucks. My recent back…
Rolf Lockwood Author Gravatar Image THE LOCKWOOD REPORT by Rolf Lockwood February 29, 2012 Vol. 8, No. 5 There’s a ‘weasel clause’ at the end of this newsletter in which I state what should be obvious: that I don’t explicitly or…
Rolf Lockwood Author Gravatar Image THE LOCKWOOD REPORT by Rolf Lockwood February 15, 2012 Vol. 8, No. 4 Partly because I’ve just had surgery and can’t sit at the keyboard for long, and partly because I’ve been dying to write about…
Rolf Lockwood Author Gravatar Image THE LOCKWOOD REPORT by Rolf Lockwood Well, well, well… somebody has put together what looks like a pretty comprehensive strategy that directly links the trucks, the fuel, and the customers just as natural gas is hitting…
Rolf Lockwood Author Gravatar Image THE LOCKWOOD REPORT by Rolf Lockwood January 18, 2012 Vol. 8, No. 2 Well, barely a couple of weeks into the year and we already have significant news to talk about on the hardware front. That’s…
Rolf Lockwood Author Gravatar Image THE LOCKWOOD REPORT by Rolf Lockwood January 4, 2012 Vol. 8, No. 1 First off, let me wish you all a productive and prosperous new year. A happy one too, of course. Wish I could tell…
Rolf Lockwood Author Gravatar Image THE LOCKWOOD REPORT by Rolf Lockwood December 21, 2011 Vol. 7, No. 30 Well, here we are, almost at the end of what has been a pretty eventful year. In my last newsletter of 2010 I…
Rolf Lockwood Author Gravatar Image SKIRTS AND SCALES by Rolf Lockwood November 30, 2011 Vol. 7, No. 28 We’re changing things here, folks. Every second week, and this is the first example, we’re simply going to present 10 of the latest…
Rolf Lockwood Author Gravatar Image ANOTHER TAKE ON WHEEL INTEGRITY by Rolf Lockwood November 23, 2011 Vol. 7, No. 27 First off, before I forget, a clarification about the coming availability of Hino’s two new trucks that I told you about last…
Rolf Lockwood Author Gravatar Image AN ELECTRIC TRUCK FOR FREE by Rolf Lockwood November 16, 2011 Vol. 7, No. 26 Well, I exaggerate quite a lot with that headline, though not as much as you might think. Nothing except unwanted advice is ever…
Rolf Lockwood Author Gravatar Image WHEEL SECURITY AND A REACH by Rolf Lockwood November 9, 2011 Vol. 7, No. 25 A review of simple wheel-security tools was my main topic last time out, and I chose to do that because… well, with safety…
Rolf Lockwood Author Gravatar Image BIG ISSUE, SIMPLE FIXES by Rolf Lockwood November 2, 2011 Vol. 7, No. 24 Wheel security will always be an issue, in spite of endless service bulletins and instructional videos and training programs. I mean, truck wheels…
Rolf Lockwood Author Gravatar Image THE LOCKWOOD REPORT by Rolf Lockwood DOES ANYONE NOT LIKE OLD TRUCKS? When you get right down to it, I’m probably much the same as a lot of you folks. I just plain like trucks. The…
Rolf Lockwood Author Gravatar Image T. BOONE AND WILLIE by Rolf Lockwood October 26, 2011 Vol. 7, No. 23 Within about 38 seconds of meeting Willie Nelson, you’d be talking biofuels. If you happened upon T. Boone Pickens, you’d be into a…
