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(Sendout Date - December 31, 2008) - December 31, 2008 Vol. 4, No. 27 So here we are at the end of a year that won’t be remembered fondly. Good riddance, you might say. Trouble is, the new year promises to be worse, though it’s a mug’s game to try guessing where we’re headed. Who can tell? In fact, unlikely as it seems from this New Year’s Eve vantage point, I woul...
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(Sendout Date - December 17, 2008) - December 17, 2008 Vol. 4, No. 26 These days it's hard to see through the haze of economic woe -- and those nasty visions of a later retirement than I'd been hoping for, like 3 decades later -- but I take real solace in the fact that there's still a ton of stuff to watch on the product front. When you're a gearhead like me, and presumabl...
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(Sendout Date - December 03, 2008) - December 3, 2008 Vol. 4, No. 25 No, I don't mean by the headline above that the engines of our present emissions standard are more durable than others, though that would be welcome news to many cash-strapped truck operators. And that's really the point. What I mean is that there's a move afoot to have the Environmental Protection Ag...
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(Sendout Date - November 19, 2008) - November 19, 2008 Vol. 4, No. 24 Amidst all the fury and fear-mongering about our woeful state of financial affairs, and I mean pretty much the entire industrialized world, one trucking subject remains at the top of many interest lists: the North American engines of 2010. With International vowing to stick with EGR but urging the EP...
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(Sendout Date - November 05, 2008) - November 5, 2008 Vol. 4, No. 23 I’M GOING TO GIVE HYBRIDS A REST for a bit. Well, almost. Can’t avoid them entirely. Honestly, I think this newsletter has been in danger of becoming too focused on that corner of our hardware world, so my promise of more info from the Hybrid Truck Users Forum this time out is an empty one. I’ll come back...
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(Sendout Date - October 22, 2008) - October 22, 2008 Vol. 4, No. 22 My brain’s buzzing, folks, after attending yet another information-intensive event last week. There’s just so much to write about these days and so little space to do it in. Very frustrating. I’ve concluded, in fact, that I may never finish reporting on last month’s IAA Commercial Vehicles Show in Germ...
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(Sendout Date - September 24, 2008) - September 24, 2008 Vol. 4, No. 20 Predictably, the 62nd incarnation of the IAA Commercial Vehicles Show here in Hannover, Germany seems to be dominated by issues of fuel and environment. After the first of two press days before the show officially opens to the masses, I see nothing but green. Metaphorically, I mean. Since I haven't ...
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(Sendout Date - September 10, 2008) - September 10, 2008 Vol. 4, No. 19 LET’S START WITH SOME GOOD NEWS, an all too rare phenomenon these days. It’s not a huge deal, I’ll admit, but if you’re like most of us and enjoy seeing little guys take big strides, it may warm your tired heart to know that a small Halifax company is taking on Europe. It’s doubly pleasing to me because...
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(Sendout Date - August 28, 2008) - August 28, 2008 Vol. 4, No. 18 FIRST OFF, MY APOLOGIES to all for the troubles we had with my last e-newsletter on Aug. 13. Actually, it should have gone out on the 13th, but was delayed until the following day. The issue was a technical one, of course, as we were retiring one server and switching to a new and – on paper at least -- mor...
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(Sendout Date - August 13, 2008) - August 13, 2008 Vol. 4, No. 17 WOW! BIG NEWS out of Indiana hit the street today as Cummins announced that it’s going to use selective catalytic reduction (SCR) technology in its 2010 heavy-duty ‘X’ engines after all. That reverses its announcement of not quite a year ago, when the Indiana engine-maker said it could meet the next EPA em...
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(Sendout Date - July 30, 2008) - July 30, 2008 Vol. 4, No. 16 Well, somebody’s finally done it. An LED headlamp is actually in production. Who knows how much it will cost, but Truck-Lite has a bunch of them in seven-inch round, 24-volt form in U.S. military use and it’s apparently nearly ready for mass consumption in 12 volts. That’s pretty cool. I’ve been waiting f...
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