Rolf Lockwood Author Gravatar Image AN ADVENTURE ABROAD by Rolf Lockwood September 10, 2008 Vol. 4, No. 19 LET’S START WITH SOME GOOD NEWS, an all too rare phenomenon these days. It’s not a huge deal, I’ll admit, but if you’re…
Rolf Lockwood Author Gravatar Image NEW FACTORY SHOWS THE WAY by Rolf Lockwood August 28, 2008 Vol. 4, No. 18 FIRST OFF, MY APOLOGIES to all for the troubles we had with my last e-newsletter on Aug. 13. Actually, it should have gone…
Rolf Lockwood Author Gravatar Image HYBRIDS COMING OF AGE by Rolf Lockwood October 22, 2008 Vol. 4, No. 22 My brain’s buzzing, folks, after attending yet another information-intensive event last week. There’s just so much to write about these days and so…
Rolf Lockwood Author Gravatar Image HANNOVER REPORT, DAY ONE by Rolf Lockwood September 24, 2008 Vol. 4, No. 20 Predictably, the 62nd incarnation of the IAA Commercial Vehicles Show here in Hannover, Germany seems to be dominated by issues of fuel and…
Rolf Lockwood Author Gravatar Image CUMMINS SAYS ‘YES’ TO SCR by Rolf Lockwood August 13, 2008 Vol. 4, No. 17 WOW! BIG NEWS out of Indiana hit the street today as Cummins announced that it’s going to use selective catalytic reduction (SCR) technology…
Rolf Lockwood Author Gravatar Image LET THERE BE LED LIGHT by Rolf Lockwood July 30, 2008 Vol. 4, No. 16 Well, somebody’s finally done it. An LED headlamp is actually in production. Who knows how much it will cost, but Truck-Lite has a…
Rolf Lockwood Author Gravatar Image IT’S A WRITER’S EURO LIFE by Rolf Lockwood July 16, 2008 Vol. 4, No. 15 So there I was, strapped into the seat of a Kamaz Paris-Dakar rally truck, five-point harness and all, with a somewhat crazed but…
Rolf Lockwood Author Gravatar Image CAT DROPS A BOMBSHELL by Rolf Lockwood June 18, 2008 Vol. 4, No. 13 Even though some of us, actually quite a few of us, expected it would happen, Caterpillar’s announcement this past week had a certain…
Rolf Lockwood Author Gravatar Image THE CAT/NAVISTAR DEAL REVISITED by Rolf Lockwood July 02, 2008 Vol. 4, No. 14 Not a lot of earth-shattering news to report this time, not like my last newsletter. Two weeks ago the subject was a meaty…
Rolf Lockwood Author Gravatar Image IT’S ALL ABOUT FUEL by Rolf Lockwood June 4, 2008 Vol. 4, No. 12 There’s nothing like the pressure of rapidly rising fuel prices to engender creativity in both the engineering and marketing offices of companies that…
Rolf Lockwood Author Gravatar Image HYBRIDS GET TRACTION by Rolf Lockwood May 21, 2008 Vol. 4, No. 11 Getting traction is what it’s all about, no matter what the endeavor, and the hybrid truck idea is getting lots of it these…
Rolf Lockwood Author Gravatar Image DRIVER TRAINING HITS THE CAB by Rolf Lockwood May 7, 2008 Vol. 4, No. 10 Today’s e-newsletter is going to focus on simple news for a change, though ‘simple’ may not be the right word to use…
Rolf Lockwood Author Gravatar Image FUELS AND HYBRIDS AGAIN by Rolf Lockwood April 23, 2008 Vol. 4, No. 9 There’s no crashing new technology issue to discuss this time out, but fuel issues continue to dominate everywhere I turn. I’m bothered…
Rolf Lockwood Author Gravatar Image BOLD TRUCKS, BOLD PROMISE by Rolf Lockwood March 26, 2008 Vol. 4, No. 7 Since I was a kid, I’ve been a sucker for tough trucks. At the age of five, I probably figured every truck looked…
Rolf Lockwood Author Gravatar Image SCR vs EGR, THAT IS THE QUESTION by Rolf Lockwood April 9, 2008 Vol. 4, No. 8 With a huge sigh of relief, I can tell you that the 37th annual Mid-America Trucking Show has come and gone. I say…
