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(Sendout Date - August 15, 2007) - August 15, 2007 Vol. 3, No. 16 Another quiet week at Lake Wobegon product-wise, but it sure wasn’t quiet just 10 days ago up at Notre-dame-du-nord in Quebec. The noise was deafening at the 27th running of the wild and woolly Rodeo du Camion. And as usual I spent the whole weekend wondering why more engine and drivetrain parts don’t brea...
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(Sendout Date - August 01, 2007) - August 1, 2007 Vol. 3, No. 15 Not a whole lot of cracking great news to impart this time out, but as always I’ve been gathering bits and pieces of information on a few subjects with longer-term stories in mind. It’s an on-going job, of course, and you could say that pen-pushers like me are intellectual packrats. I don’t mean to boas...
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(Sendout Date - July 18, 2007) - July 18, 2007 Vol. 3, No. 14 Before I get to the ‘Ya Gotta Wonder’ part of this piece, a word or three about my lead item here. Mack’s Idle Free ‘Hybrid’ anti-idling system seems like very cool stuff, though they introduced it very quietly – like almost not at all. So quietly, in fact, that I don’t think there was even an announcement...
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(Sendout Date - July 04, 2007) - July 4, 2007 Vol. 3, No. 13 Let me open with a stunner, not about a product but a much needed service. A dog wash. Or, presumably, a raccoon wash. Skunk wash. Even -- if you'll pardon the expression -- mouse wash. Take your pick of pets. If a trucker hauls a critter along for the ride, he can get him spruced up in Iowa. It seems ...
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(Sendout Date - June 20, 2007) - June 20, 2007 Vol. 3, No. 12 A bunch of decades ago when I’d been in this motor-noter game for just a couple of years, Tom Kleysen took me on a tour of the Kleysen Transport facilities in Winnipeg. We did the office and the shop and the dispatch room and all the usual corners of the enterprise. And then we walked out into the back 40. ...
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(Sendout Date - June 06, 2007) - June 6, 2007 Vol. 3, No. 11 Mostly tidbits this time out, my friends, as there’s been no earth-shattering development along product lines in the last couple of weeks. Well, let me qualify that a little. Some of these tidbits are actually pretty significant, like the separate reports from Reuters and Global Insight that fanned rumors a...
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(Sendout Date - May 23, 2007) - May 23, 2007 Vol. 3, No. 10 Sometimes I get jealous when I hear about the work going on in the United States and Europe to explore new technologies, new fuels, new ways of trucking smarter. There are demonstration projects all over the place, some linking user groups with manufacturers and governments, accessing public money set asi...
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(Sendout Date - May 09, 2007) - May 9, 2007 Vol. 3, No. 9 For a hardware junkie like yours truly, a new truck – and I mean a really new truck – is a bit like a present under the Christmas tree. It’s just plain exciting. And for the people who design them and build them and ultimately sell them, I guess it’s like giving birth. So at the launch of the new Freightliner...
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(Sendout Date - April 25, 2007) - April 25, 2007 Vol. 3, No. 8 Don’t want to boast, but the Expocam 2007 truck show held in Montreal April 12-14 – a show we now own here at Newcom Business Media, and which we operated for the first time – was a pretty big success. Sure, there were nearly 18,000 folks milling about amongst the trucks and trailers and shiny things, and th...
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(Sendout Date - April 11, 2007) - April 11, 2007 Vol. 3, No. 7 There’s no getting around it: this is a diesel kind of year. It sometimes seems that I write about nothing else, and I won’t break the pattern here. The new International MaxxForce engines in big-bore form take pride of place in this edition of Product Watch. But that ‘big bore’ phrase is a relative th...
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