Rolf Lockwood Author Gravatar Image EURO TRUCK OF THE YEAR by Rolf Lockwood November 18, 2009 Vol. 5, No. 23 Let’s start the proceedings on the international scene. Motor noters in Europe have chosen the Scania R Series as Truck of the Year…
Rolf Lockwood Author Gravatar Image LOCKWOOD SITS DOWN by Rolf Lockwood December 1, 2010 Vol. 6, No. 24 Way back in January or so I told you about a wildly interesting truck seat emanating from a very unlikely source. Bose, a…
Rolf Lockwood Author Gravatar Image WHAT’S WASTE-HEAT RECOVERY? by Rolf Lockwood October 20, 2010 Vol. 6, No. 21 Ever heard of exhaust waste heat recovery? You will soon, because every North American truck engine maker is pursuing it as a way…
Rolf Lockwood Author Gravatar Image HYBRIDS OVER-RUN DEARBORN by Rolf Lockwood <em>October 6, 2010 Vol. 6, No. 20</em> I don’t bring my groceries home in one of those odd fabric’ish reusable bags that many folks are hauling around these days. A…
Rolf Lockwood Author Gravatar Image NO SHORTAGE OF ACTION by Rolf Lockwood November 4, 2009 Vol. 5, No. 22 For what is normally a ‘slow’ period in our beleaguered industry, things are actually hopping. No surprise, of course, given the pressures to…
Rolf Lockwood Author Gravatar Image COMPUTER IN THE CAB by Rolf Lockwood September 8, 2010 Vol. 6, No. 18 Well, suddenly there’s some serious and intriguing action at both PeopleNet and Qualcomm/Shaw Tracking. And some useful developments at Mack, also on the…
Rolf Lockwood Author Gravatar Image RETURN OF THE GLIDER KIT by Rolf Lockwood October 21, 2009 Vol. 5, No. 21 Gee whiz, my last newsletter effort (‘Where’s the Leadership,’ Oct. 7) seems to have struck a chord with a lot of folks. Two…
Rolf Lockwood Author Gravatar Image THE GAS TURBINE IS BACK? by Rolf Lockwood August 11, 2010 Vol. 6, No. 17 Seasonal yo-yo routines continue on the truck sales front, same with trailers, and we’re still a long way off the levels we saw…
Rolf Lockwood Author Gravatar Image TECHNOLOGIES TO EXPLORE by Rolf Lockwood August 11, 2010 Vol. 6, No. 16 Well, after writing a veritable novel last time about the EPA/CARB hearings in California, I’m going to keep it relatively short and possibly…
Rolf Lockwood Author Gravatar Image SCR, EGR: WHY NOT BOTH? by Rolf Lockwood August 12, 2009 Vol. 5, No. 17 No choice really but to start with the recent revelation that Navistar will offer selective catalytic reduction (SCR) emissions control on its engines…
Rolf Lockwood Author Gravatar Image THE EMISSIONS WAR WON’T STOP by Rolf Lockwood July 28, 2010 Vol. 6, No. 15 Oh boy, here we go again. Being a mature fellow with many miles under my shoe leather, I should have known that the…
Rolf Lockwood Author Gravatar Image THE QUALITY PROOF IS IN THE PUDDING by Rolf Lockwood August 12, 2009 Vol. 5, No. 16 So I spent a couple of days recently at my favorite fixture on the summer schedule of outdoor truck shows, the Rodeo du…
Rolf Lockwood Author Gravatar Image SOFTWARE AND SUSPENSIONS by Rolf Lockwood July 14, 2010 Vol. 6, No. 14 Things have been rather quiet lately on the hardware front, but then again it’s summer so I shouldn’t be surprised. It’s not…
Rolf Lockwood Author Gravatar Image NAVISTAR COUNTERPUNCHES by Rolf Lockwood July 29, 2009 Vol. 5, No. 15 In the seemingly endless war of words between the EGR and SCR camps, decorum has not always been evident. The rhetoric has occasionally…
Rolf Lockwood Author Gravatar Image BEWARE SUPPOSED EXPERTS by Rolf Lockwood June 30, 2010 Vol. 6, No. 13 Natural gas has become what biodiesel was just a couple of years back, a politically popular source of fire in the bellies of…
