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Natural gas interest spreading to shunt trucks

When it comes to shunt trucks, you don’t often get splashy new truck launches, complete with elaborate Formula 1-style curtain raisings. What you do get is continuous improvement of existing models.

International improves loyalty program

LISLE, Ill. -- Navistar International says it has improved its International Advantage loyalty program, to provide members with enhanced benefits.

Freightliner expands natural gas offerings

NAPA, Calif. -- Who says natural gas trucks can’t be aerodynamic? Freightliner has partnered with one of the most experienced natural gas fleets in the US to create a new 113-inch BBC day cab Cascadia with advanced aerodynamics.

TMC Transportation orders 1,500 Petes with lightweight Dana Spicer axles

MAUMEE, Ohio -- Dana has announced TMC Transportation has spec’d the lightweight Spicer Pro-40 tandem drive axle on its recent order for 1,500 Pete 579 highway tractors.

Tallman Truck Centre delivers first International TerraStar 4×4

OSHAWA, Ont. -- Navistar has begun delivering its very first Canadian International TerraStar 4x4s, with Schindler Elevator receiving keys to one of the - if not the - first in Canada this past Wednesday.

Peterson Manufacturing introduces LED headlight

GRANDVIEW, Mo. -- Peterson Manufacturing has announced it is introducing a new seven-inch, round LED headlamp.

Dana to supply axles, driveshafts for International TerraStar 4×4

MAUMEE, Ohio -- Dana has announced it has been named exclusive supplier of steer axles, drive axles and driveshafts for the new International TerraStar 4x4, which Navistar just recently began shipping.

Reinvigorated Firestone brand targets small fleets and O/Os with fuel saving technology

AKRON, Ohio -- Firestone and North America’s owner/operators and small fleets have much in common: they’ve both been essential to getting trucking to where it is today, and they both deserve a lot more respect and attention than...

International WorkStar now available with 13L SCR engine

LISLE, Ill. -- Navistar International’s vocational WorkStar is now available with the 13-litre MaxxForce engine with selective catalytic reduction (SCR), the company has announced.

Road Test: Kenworth updates natural gas offerings

CHILLICOTHE, Ohio -- According to Kenworth’s national sales manager for specialty markets, Andy Douglas, the third annual update on Kenworth’s natural gas progress has customers approaching the topic more proactively. Attitudes are...

Road Test: Kenworth debuts short-sleeper T680

CHILLICOTHE, Ohio -- A 52-inch sleeper variant of Kenworth’s new-generation T680 was available to drive at a mid-July Kenworth customer event at its Chillicothe, Ohio plant.

The 2014 GMC Sierra and the art of towing

CALGARY, Alta. -- Southern Alberta is the ideal place to showcase the towing capabilities of the new 2014 GMC Sierra. Alberta represents an important market to GMC, accounting for a quarter of its Canadian truck sales. The southern reaches of...

Bridgestone Commercial Solutions launches premium Ecopia drive tire

NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Bridgestone Commercial Solutions has introduced the Bridgestone M760 Ecopia tire, a drive radial that is EPA SmartWay verified and CARB compliant. T

PIT celebrates the success of its fuel testing programs

BLAINVILLE, Que. -- As rigs zoomed around Transport Canada’s 6.4-km test track in Blainville, Que. this June 5, hundreds of people circulated inside a nearby test hangar, networking and soaking up details of fuel-saving technologies,...

Mack to begin production of DME-powered vehicles in 2015

GREENSBORO, N.C. – Mack Trucks will begin production of dimethyl ether (DME)-powered Mack Pinnacle Axle Back models in 2015.