Rolf Lockwood Author Gravatar Image AN INTERNATIONAL TOUR by Rolf Lockwood May 5, 2010 Vol. 6, No. 9 Despite the dreaded code on my boarding pass that told the rabid security folks at the airport to give me everything but a…
Rolf Lockwood Author Gravatar Image A TRUCK WORLD REPORT by Rolf Lockwood April 21, 2010 Vol. 6, No. 8 Man, life’s been busy in the last month or so. First, the Work Truck Show in mid-March, then Mid America late last month,…
Rolf Lockwood Author Gravatar Image NECESSITY, INVENTION, ETC. by Rolf Lockwood May 11, 2011 Vol. 7, No. 10 You’ve got to love necessity. It has this wonderfully causal relationship to invention, and bears that child absolutely every time it arises. Like…
Rolf Lockwood Author Gravatar Image ANOTHER COOL ENGINE by Rolf Lockwood April 27, 2011 Vol. 7, No. 9 Last time out I teased a bit with brief mention of another new engine design, the very intriguing Scuderi split-cycle engine, yet…
Rolf Lockwood Author Gravatar Image THE VOCATIONAL WORLD’S BUZZING by Rolf Lockwood March 30, 2011 Vol. 7, No. 7 Holy moly, could there be any more to write about than what I see these days? I can’t remember a time when this…
Rolf Lockwood Author Gravatar Image BUSY IN ST. LOUIS by Rolf Lockwood March 10, 2010 Vol. 6, No. 5 So here I am in rainy downtown St. Louis preparing to attend the Green Truck Summit and the Work Truck Show, all under…
Rolf Lockwood Author Gravatar Image WORK TRUCKS HIT THE STAGE by Rolf Lockwood March 16, 2011 Vol. 7, No. 6 Highlights weren’t in short supply at last week’s Work Truck Show, which seems to grow every year. It’s certainly been drawing a…
Rolf Lockwood Author Gravatar Image THE MX, AND A NIFTY FIFTH WHEEL by Rolf Lockwood February 10, 2010 Vol. 6, No. 3 Had a fine time in the balmy Pacific Northwest last week as I attended the official launch of the PACCAR MX engine in…
Rolf Lockwood Author Gravatar Image A GAME CHANGER ENGINE? by Rolf Lockwood March 2, 2011 Vol. 7, No. 5 Well, well, well… Navistar has just thrown us an interesting bone with last week’s announcement that it’s now involved in the development…
Rolf Lockwood Author Gravatar Image ANOTHER ENGINE JOINS THE FRAY by Rolf Lockwood January 27, 2010 Vol. 6, No. 2 The heavy-duty engine business, as if it wasn’t already pretty interesting, just got more so with the announcement that PACCAR’s 12.9-litre MX…
Rolf Lockwood Author Gravatar Image GETTING DOWN TO EARTH by Rolf Lockwood January 19, 2011 Vol. 7, No. 2 Learned a lesson the other day. Or re-learned an old one, I suppose, about the nature of people who own and operate trucks.
Rolf Lockwood Author Gravatar Image NAVISTAR GOING TO SCR AFTER ALL? by Rolf Lockwood December 30, 2009 Vol. 5, No. 26 Just before Christmas a pretty interesting story cropped up, namely the news that Navistar has entered into a development and supply agreement with…
Rolf Lockwood Author Gravatar Image A GREAT DECADE IS COMING by Rolf Lockwood January 5, 2011 Vol. 7, No. 1 Wow, can’t believe I’m launching the seventh volume of this e-newsletter, this quasi-blog, this thing that’s really just an expression of my fascination…
Rolf Lockwood Author Gravatar Image NEXT YEAR’S BIG NEWS by Rolf Lockwood December 29, 2010 Vol. 6, No. 26 FIRST OFF, I hope you all had a fine Christmas or whatever else it is that you celebrate at this time of year.
Rolf Lockwood Author Gravatar Image MEMORIES OF FINLAND by Rolf Lockwood December 15, 2010 Vol. 6, No. 25 Way back in time, like 1985, I had a day that remains one of the best ever, and it involved a truck that…
