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The Lockwood Report
(Sendout Date - January 04, 2012) -

January 4, 2012 Vol. 8, No. 1

First off, let me wish you all a productive and prosperous new year. A happy one too, of course. Wish I could tell you what sort of year it's going to be, but Santa failed yet again to deliver a crystal ball to the tree in our front room.

There are those who claim the world wi...

The Lockwood Report
(Sendout Date - December 21, 2011) -

December 21, 2011 Vol. 7, No. 30

Well, here we are, almost at the end of what has been a pretty eventful year. In my last newsletter of 2010 I wrote about the latest round of emission controls, not surprisingly. At that point there weren't many 2010 engines in service, and very, very few from

The Lockwood Report
(Sendout Date - December 07, 2011) -

December 7, 2011 Vol. 7, No. 29

It's been a quiet week here in North America, such things being relative, though there are a couple of exceptions. One is the re-naming of this newsletter. For seven years now it's been called Lockwood's Product Watch, but those days are done. Not really my choice, oddly enough, bu...

The Lockwood Report
(Sendout Date - November 30, 2011) -

November 30, 2011 Vol. 7, No. 28

We're changing things here, folks. Every second week, and this is the first example, we're simply going to present 10 of the latest or most interesting trucking products. We'll keep you informed but we'll do so without Lockwood's commentary. I'm not going anywhere, just reverting to my bi-...

The Lockwood Report
(Sendout Date - November 23, 2011) -

November 23, 2011 Vol. 7, No. 27

First off, before I forget, a clarification about the coming availability of Hino's two new trucks that I told you about last week. I wrote that the class 4 model 155h and class 5 195h diesel-electric hybrids first int...

The Lockwood Report
(Sendout Date - November 16, 2011) -

November 16, 2011 Vol. 7, No. 26

Well, I exaggerate quite a lot with that headline, though not as much as you might think. Nothing except unwanted advice is ever free, but Freightliner Custom Chassis Corporation (FCCC) and Enova Systems...

The Lockwood Report
(Sendout Date - November 09, 2011) -

November 9, 2011 Vol. 7, No. 25

A review of simple wheel-security tools was my main topic last time out, and I chose to do that because... well, with safety compliance getting tougher and with the penalties bigger than ever, I just thought it was time.

But there was one interesting product I didn't include, only becaus...

The Lockwood Report
(Sendout Date - November 02, 2011) -

November 2, 2011 Vol. 7, No. 24

Wheel security will always be an issue, in spite of endless service bulletins and instructional videos and training programs. I mean, truck wheels and hubs and bearings and all that are mechanical things, and mechanical things fail. Worse, maintenance practices are sometimes a bit hit and m...

The Lockwood Report
(Sendout Date - October 26, 2011) -

October 26, 2011 Vol. 7, No. 23

Within about 38 seconds of meeting Willie Nelson, you'd be talking biofuels. If you happened upon T. Boone Pickens, you'd be into a natural gas chat in less time than that. I've never met either man -- though Sally Field once smiled at me as she walked by the cafe where I was having Sunday ...

The Lockwood Report
(Sendout Date - October 19, 2011) -

October 19, 2011 Vol. 7, No. 22

OK, here we are with what is now a weekly look at the technology scene. I think of this week's newsletter as the alternate report, having had a bi-weekly schedule for nearly 8 years. Things may eventually change but for now, I'll do this in-between one differently. Unless there's a major is...

The Lockwood Report
(Sendout Date - October 12, 2011) -

October 12, 2011 Vol. 7, No. 21

The world, it seems, likes this e-newsletter. Proof perhaps that there's no accounting for taste. Lame irony aside, that means we're going weekly, as some of you suggested when I asked you about optimum frequency last winter.

But there's a twist. The extra installment, the f...

The Lockwood Report
(Sendout Date - September 28, 2011) -

September 28, 2011 Vol. 7, No. 20

About a million years ago I spent a lot of time digging in the dirt underneath a peach tree in my backyard, a four- or five-year-old making roads for a little fleet of tiny trucks. Always trucks, never cars, my fate apparently sealed even way back then.

And there I was yes...

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