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(Sendout Date - October 25, 2006) - October 25, 2006 Vol. 2, No. 22 Counterfeit or knock-off parts are a bigger problem than a lot of folks seem to realize, and the issue doesn't get a lot of press, so I'm going to spend a little time on the subject here. It's not just a North American matter but a global one -- including Africa, believe it or not -- and truckers aren't t...
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(Sendout Date - October 11, 2006) - October 11, 2006 Vol. 2, No. 21 A couple of weeks back I waxed poetic about the huge IAA Commercial Vehicles Show recently held in Hannover, Germany, and specifically about some of the hybrid technology I saw there. That left an awful lot of ground uncovered. I'll fill in a few of those gaps here (and a few more in the November issue of...
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(Sendout Date - September 27, 2006) - September 27, 2006 Vol. 2, No. 20 Amidst the noisy hubbub of the largest truck show on earth, it can be hard to find a common theme. This year's 61st version of the IAA Commercial Vehicles Show in Hannover, Germany, was no exception, but the future of hybrid power was my own point of focus. I discovered that it's not such a big deal in ...
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(Sendout Date - September 13, 2006) - September 13, 2006 Vol. 2, No. 19 Medium-duty trucks have been top of mind lately, largely because we just prepared a roundup of 2007-model trucks for the October issue of Today's Trucking. It's not the sexiest sector of the truck-making world, but there really are some awfully good products in there. Not exciting in the way a chromed...
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(Sendout Date - August 30, 2006) - August 30, 2006 Vol. 2, No. 18 Recent travels took me to Chillicothe, Ohio, where I arrived very late in the evening with a few hours of work yet to do. As I drove into town I was dreading the prospect of having to depend on hotel-room coffee to keep me and my laptop going. There's nothing worse with a deadline looming. But lo and behol...
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(Sendout Date - August 16, 2006) - August 16, 2006 Vol. 2, No. 17 Not a busy couple of weeks – is everyone on holiday except me? -- so there’s not a lot of dramatic product news to report here. That said, the Michelin self-generating retread – XDA Hypersipe – that I first mentioned a few weeks back has been formally announced. It’s a retread drive tire that regenerates t...
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(Sendout Date - August 02, 2006) - August 2, 2006 Vol. 2, No. 16 After years and years of cajoling, the anti-idling message just never got through. Like many other observers of this game, I can't figure out why I still see trucks idling away – on a day that's neither hot nor cold -- while the operator sits in a truckstop munching his ham and eggs for the better part of a...
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(Sendout Date - July 19, 2006) - July 19, 2006 Vol. 2, No. 15 So it was back to Europe for me since the last Product Watch e-newsletter, Germany in this case, just in time to join the insanity surrounding the World Cup 'consolation' game in Stuttgart. It was Germany vs. Portugal and the city was one mighty lively place, but -- frankly – I was more interested in the r...
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(Sendout Date - July 05, 2006) - July 5 Vol. 2, No. 14 Last time out I promised news from Kalamazoo, Michigan where I attended a joint Eaton and Dana press gathering last week. And boy, there was news aplenty. Including a very interesting but unannounced surprise that I discovered out on the test track. I'll get to that in a minute. The biggest news from western Mic...
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(Sendout Date - June 21, 2006) - June 21 Vol. 2, No. 13 Hate to say it, but I've just come back from a few days in Paris. As in France. Croissants, extremely good coffee, and all that. More particularly, I was part of Michelin's 6th Challenge Bibendum, 2006 version. It's an extraordinary event, the brainchild and pet project of the late Edouard Michelin who died t...
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(Sendout Date - June 07, 2006) - June 7 Vol. 2, No. 13 The biggest news of the past couple of weeks on the product front isn't about a specific bit of hardware, rather a factory. Hino Motors Canada has now officially opened its assembly plant just outside Woodstock, Ont. and is set to make about 1600 trucks a year for Canadian consumption. Capacity is 2000 a year on o...
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(Sendout Date - May 24, 2006) - May 10 Vol. 2, No. 11 Before I write anything else here, let me remind you that the 43rd annual Canadian Fleet Maintenance Seminar is on tap next week. It starts Sunday night, May 28, with a reception sponsored by Mack Trucks and then runs through lunch on Wednesday the 31st. It's being held once again at the Doubletree International P...
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