Rolf Lockwood Author Gravatar Image TMC REPORT: IT’S ALL ABOUT SCR by Rolf Lockwood February 11, 2009 Vol. 5, No. 3 From deep in the Land of Mouse comes interesting news about a very light flatdeck with all sorts of innovations, about retrofittable roll…
Rolf Lockwood Author Gravatar Image THE BUZZ IS ELECTRIC by Rolf Lockwood September 23, 2009 Vol. 5, No. 19 Let me start with praise for what seems to me like a very useful gizmo that you’ll see described in greater detail in…
Rolf Lockwood Author Gravatar Image WHAT WILL 2009 HOLD? by Rolf Lockwood December 31, 2008 Vol. 4, No. 27 So here we are at the end of a year that won’t be remembered fondly. Good riddance, you might say. Trouble is, the…
Rolf Lockwood Author Gravatar Image FINALLY, SOME BIG NEWS by Rolf Lockwood September 9, 2009 Vol. 5, No. 18 It’s been a mostly gray day here in Battle Creek, Michigan but the folks at Eaton Corp. have been smiling broadly nonetheless. That’s…
Rolf Lockwood Author Gravatar Image OPTIMISM, HYBRIDS & BIOFUELS by Rolf Lockwood June 17, 2009 Vol. 5, No. 12 First, my hat’s off to Kenworth for introducing a new truck at a time when a lot of folks have battened down the…
Rolf Lockwood Author Gravatar Image ENGINES, ALGAE, & SCOTCH by Rolf Lockwood December 17, 2008 Vol. 4, No. 26 These days it’s hard to see through the haze of economic woe — and those nasty visions of a later retirement than I’d…
Rolf Lockwood Author Gravatar Image NOBODY BELIEVES ANYBODY? by Rolf Lockwood May 6, 2009 Vol. 5, No. 9 As if on cue, I had an e-mail a week ago back from the purchasing chief of a prominent Canadian company looking for…
Rolf Lockwood Author Gravatar Image ADVENTURES IN ENGINEERING by Rolf Lockwood April 22, 2009 Vol. 5, No. 8 Montreal in April isn’t quite the same as springtime in Paris, and not just because they speak two different brands of French. You’ll…
Rolf Lockwood Author Gravatar Image CAT GOES TRUCKIN’ AGAIN by Rolf Lockwood April 8, 2009 Vol. 5, No. 7 Hey, there’s big news to report from deep in the American heartland, namely Illinois. You’ll remember that Caterpillar and Navistar announced last June…
Rolf Lockwood Author Gravatar Image LET’S TALK UREA by Rolf Lockwood November 19, 2008 Vol. 4, No. 24 Amidst all the fury and fear-mongering about our woeful state of financial affairs, and I mean pretty much the entire industrialized world, one…
Rolf Lockwood Author Gravatar Image POWER, ONE WAY OR ANOTHER by Rolf Lockwood January 28, 2009 Vol. 5, No. 2 Last time out I told you that the Maxxforce 15 engine that Navistar International announced to analysts a couple of weeks ago was…
Rolf Lockwood Author Gravatar Image NOT JUST HYBRIDS by Rolf Lockwood November 5, 2008 Vol. 4, No. 23 I’M GOING TO GIVE HYBRIDS A REST for a bit. Well, almost. Can’t avoid them entirely. Honestly, I think this newsletter has been…
Rolf Lockwood Author Gravatar Image DOES CAT HAVE ANOTHER LIFE? by Rolf Lockwood January 14, 2009 Vol. 5, No. 1 Oh boy. And oh boy again. Things are getting mighty interesting on the engine front. As if they weren’t that way already. Predictably,…
Rolf Lockwood Author Gravatar Image HANNOVER REPORT, PART TWO by Rolf Lockwood October 8, 2008 Vol. 4, No. 21 Last time out I offered a preliminary report after the first of two press days at the huge IAA Commercial Vehicles Show…
Rolf Lockwood Author Gravatar Image ’07 ENGINES TO LAST LONGER? by Rolf Lockwood December 3, 2008 Vol. 4, No. 25 No, I don’t mean by the headline above that the engines of our present emissions standard are more durable than others, though that…
