Rolf Lockwood Author Gravatar Image THE LOCKWOOD REPORT by Rolf Lockwood NO END TO NATURAL GAS NEWS April 10, 2013 Vol. 9, No. 7 First an admission: not long ago I was writing that, while it offered some clear advantages in…
Rolf Lockwood Author Gravatar Image INGENUITY RULES by Rolf Lockwood October 12, 2011 Vol. 7, No. 21 The world, it seems, likes this e-newsletter. Proof perhaps that there’s no accounting for taste. Lame irony aside, that means we’re going weekly,…
Rolf Lockwood Author Gravatar Image The Lockwood Report by Rolf Lockwood INTEGRATION TAKES A NEW TURN Well, I’ve been waiting for this one. Cummins and Eaton have combined forces to produce a powertrain package that will combat the…
Rolf Lockwood Author Gravatar Image CAT’S CT660 IS ON THE ROAD by Rolf Lockwood September 28, 2011 Vol. 7, No. 20 About a million years ago I spent a lot of time digging in the dirt underneath a peach tree in my backyard, a…
Rolf Lockwood Author Gravatar Image The Lockwood Report by Rolf Lockwood Alright, let me continue what I started a couple of weeks ago, the second half of a very personal selection, my favorite 10 new products of 2012. Like the first…
Rolf Lockwood Author Gravatar Image ROLL STABILITY IN THE SPOTLIGHT by Rolf Lockwood September 14, 2011 Vol. 7, No. 19 We’re getting somewhere in the fight to prevent truck rollovers, or at least I think we are. Witness, the recent U.S. National…
Rolf Lockwood Author Gravatar Image The Lockwood Report by Rolf Lockwood IT’S A SLIMY BUSINESS For the better part of a year now I’ve been resisting the urge to turn all evangelical on you in a Willie Nelson sort of…
Rolf Lockwood Author Gravatar Image FREIGHTLINER LOOKS AHEAD by Rolf Lockwood August 31, 2011 Vol. 7, No. 18 Freightliner is serious about fuel economy. By the 2015 model year, it says a Cascadia with an engine equivalent…
Rolf Lockwood Author Gravatar Image The Lockwood Report by Rolf Lockwood A RADICALLY LIGHT TRUCK FRAME October 10, 2012 Vol. 8, No. 21 Some of the world’s best truck journalism comes out of India, and while it rarely contains…
Rolf Lockwood Author Gravatar Image TRUCK #100,000 AT STE. THERESE by Rolf Lockwood August 3, 2011 Vol. 7, No. 16 First off, kudos to Kenworth for building the 100,000th medium-duty truck to come out of the PACCAR plant in Ste-Therese, Quebec,…
Rolf Lockwood Author Gravatar Image The Lockwood Report by Rolf Lockwood IAA HIGHLIGHTS: SLICK TRAILERS & MORE September 26, 2012 Vol. 8, No. 20 With an event as big as the IAA Commercial Vehicle Show in Hannover, Germany, it’s…
Rolf Lockwood Author Gravatar Image THE UNIMOG IS 60 YEARS OLD by Rolf Lockwood June 8, 2011 Vol. 7, No. 12 One of my all-time favorite trucks is a tough little bugger that doesn’t even haul freight and isn’t totally at home on the…
Rolf Lockwood Author Gravatar Image The Lockwood Report by Rolf Lockwood ZF’S TRAXON WILL IMPRESS AT IAA September 12, 2012 Vol. 8, No. 19 Among my life’s low points, few have ranked as far down as this one: I can’t make…
Rolf Lockwood Author Gravatar Image TO INDIA AND BACK by Rolf Lockwood May 25, 2011 Vol. 7, No. 11 OK, no engine talk this time out. Seems like I’ve written about almost nothing else for weeks now. That’s an exaggeration, and it’s…
Rolf Lockwood Author Gravatar Image TRAILERS, TRAILERS EVERYWHERE by Rolf Lockwood February 16, 2011 Vol. 7, No. 4 Well, my few days in Tampa for the annual TMC gathering have come and gone, and useful days they were even if…
