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The Lockwood Report
(Sendout Date - August 31, 2011) -

August 31, 2011 Vol. 7, No. 18

Freightliner is serious about fuel economy. By the 2015 model year, it says a Cascadia with an engine equivalent to an EPA 2007-spec Detroit Diesel, will be between 15% and 20% more fuel efficient. I s...

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(Sendout Date - August 17, 2011) -

August 17, 2011 Vol. 7, No. 17

Man, is there really such mass acceptance of Washington's new truck fuel-efficiency and greenhouse-gas emission standards? They made it all official a week ago, and since then everyone and his mother in the big-fleet and manufacturer corners of trucking has applauded. But not all players are...

The Lockwood Report
(Sendout Date - August 03, 2011) -

August 3, 2011 Vol. 7, No. 16

First off, kudos to Kenworth for building the 100,000th medium-duty truck to come out of the PACCAR plant in Ste-Therese, Quebec, just outside Montreal. The facility was opened in 1999, an all new plant that has been ke...

The Lockwood Report
(Sendout Date - July 20, 2011) -

July 22, 2011 Vol. 7, No. 15

Please, bear with me at the start of things here. I'm going to clear up a matter of language and meaning before I write anything else. Won't take long.

Engines. Motors. Are they one and the same?

I ask because every once in a while I get a snippy e-mail from folks...

The Lockwood Report
(Sendout Date - July 06, 2011) -

July 6, 2011 Vol. 7, No. 14

One of the industry issues I keep an eye on is counterfeiting. Despite strong efforts to keep this problem in the limelight, especially by Bendix, it never seems as if we have a handle on it. Fake brake parts, to take just one example, continue to make it onto the market. And nobody ever seems ...

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(Sendout Date - June 22, 2011) -

June 22, 2011 Vol. 7, No. 13

This isn't exactly a place you'd go if you had the urge to hear a heart-warming tale, and I'm not about to change your mind. Truth is, I do know such stories, and in some abundance. Like the one about a wiry old heavy-hauler who routinely terrorized truckstop waitresses. He'd rip your face off...

The Lockwood Report
(Sendout Date - June 08, 2011) -

June 8, 2011 Vol. 7, No. 12

One of my all-time favorite trucks is a tough little bugger that doesn't even haul freight and isn't totally at home on the road. Mind you, it does a zillion other things.

The Unimog.

I even like its name, which is an abbreviation of 'universal-motor-gerät',...

The Lockwood Report
(Sendout Date - May 25, 2011) -

May 25, 2011 Vol. 7, No. 11

OK, no engine talk this time out. Seems like I've written about almost nothing else for weeks now. That's an exaggeration, and it's not as if there isn't a lot to discuss on the diesel front, but I'm declaring a temporary moratorium.

So let me launch this edition with some interesting in...

The Lockwood Report
(Sendout Date - May 11, 2011) -

May 11, 2011 Vol. 7, No. 10

You've got to love necessity. It has this wonderfully causal relationship to invention, and bears that child absolutely every time it arises. Like me and a deadline, I guess. The closer it comes, the busier I get, and the better my work. Like an awful lot of us, I suppose, and certainly most jo...

The Lockwood Report
(Sendout Date - April 27, 2011) -

April 27, 2011 Vol. 7, No. 9

Last time out I teased a bit with brief mention of another new engine design, the very intriguing Scuderi split-cycle engine, yet one more variation on the internal-combustion theme. Lord knows how many there have been in the last century and a bit, t...

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