LOUISVILLE, KY – – – Allison’s new 10-speed tranny goes both ways. It incorporates Allison’s torque converter with twin countershafts and Allison says it’ll bring productivity and fuel efficiency to urban P&D work, but still deliver fuel economy while cruising.

The transmission was unveiled in a demonstration vehicle at the Mid America Trucking Show in Louisville this week.

“Initial in-vehicle demonstration tests have allowed us to document some very nice gains in fuel economy and we achieved increases in a vehicles miles-per-workday,” according to Lou Gilbert, Allison Transmission’s Director of North American Market Development.

Gilbert added, “Our testing has shown this new transmission offers better fuel economy than an automated manual in the targeted duty cycle markets for which it was developed.” Allison expects OEMs to begin including the new transmissions in trucks in the 4th quarter of 2012.