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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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(Sendout Date - July 16, 2008) - July 16, 2008 Vol. 4, No. 15 So there I was, strapped into the seat of a Kamaz Paris-Dakar rally truck, five-point harness and all, with a somewhat crazed but totally silent Russian dude at the wheel. We were on the start/finish straight at the famous Nurburgring race track in Germany, and Boris Somebodyovich was about to try scaring me...
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(Sendout Date - July 02, 2008) - July 02, 2008 Vol. 4, No. 14 Not a lot of earth-shattering news to report this time, not like my last newsletter. Two weeks ago the subject was a meaty one, namely Caterpillar’s departure from the on-highway engine business and the somewhat foggy announcement of its intention to develop an on/off-road vocational truck with its Illinois ...
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(Sendout Date - June 18, 2008) - June 18, 2008 Vol. 4, No. 13 Even though some of us, actually quite a few of us, expected it would happen, Caterpillar’s announcement this past week had a certain shock value. And for die-hard fans of yellow diesels, of which there are still many, this wasn’t good news at all. Following months of speculation, Caterpillar said it wil...
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(Sendout Date - June 04, 2008) - June 4, 2008 Vol. 4, No. 12 There’s nothing like the pressure of rapidly rising fuel prices to engender creativity in both the engineering and marketing offices of companies that supply the machinery of trucking. But they only succeed, of course, when users finally see the need for efficiency and slap money down to buy it. Collectively,...
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(Sendout Date - May 21, 2008) - May 21, 2008 Vol. 4, No. 11 Getting traction is what it’s all about, no matter what the endeavor, and the hybrid truck idea is getting lots of it these days. It got a huge boost a week or so ago when UPS announced it had ordered 200 hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs) -- the largest commercial order of such trucks by any company – as well a...
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(Sendout Date - May 07, 2008) - May 7, 2008 Vol. 4, No. 10 Today’s e-newsletter is going to focus on simple news for a change, though ‘simple’ may not be the right word to use in every case here -- there are some really interesting things happening a little bit below the radar screen. Things that could make a difference. For instance, U.S. Xpress has become the first...
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(Sendout Date - April 23, 2008) - April 23, 2008 Vol. 4, No. 9 There’s no crashing new technology issue to discuss this time out, but fuel issues continue to dominate everywhere I turn. I’m bothered on behalf of one subscriber – and more silent ones, I suspect – who wrote me a week or so ago. He specs and maintains the trucks and trailers of a sizeable carrier in the Toro...
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(Sendout Date - April 09, 2008) - April 9, 2008 Vol. 4, No. 8 With a huge sigh of relief, I can tell you that the 37th annual Mid-America Trucking Show has come and gone. I say ‘relief’ because it’s a very, very busy place. The show, known as MATS, opens on Thursday for the masses, but things start with a Cummins dinner on Tuesday night for most of us in the press. And ...
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(Sendout Date - March 26, 2008) - March 26, 2008 Vol. 4, No. 7 Since I was a kid, I’ve been a sucker for tough trucks. At the age of five, I probably figured every truck looked that way, while nowadays I’m a little jaded. But the truly big and brutal ones still get me. Mack’s new Titan comes quickly to mind, of course, first shown to the world at the CONEXPO show ...
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(Sendout Date - March 12, 2008) - March 12, 2008 Vol. 4, No. 6 Once upon a time, the trucking life was dead simple. You threw fuel in the tank at just 30 cents a gallon or so, you turned the key to start that big and noisy 175-horse diesel, and off you went to the job site or the loading dock. Maybe you even had a gas job. You probably didn’t notice the plume of black s...
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(Sendout Date - February 27, 2008) - February 27, 2008 Vol. 4, No. 5 About this time last year I wrote that hybrid diesel/electric vehicles had dominated the Work Truck Show. Well, I’m in Atlanta as I write this, and I can tell you that the 2008 version is no different. Well, not quite true, because there are also all-electric commercial trucks on display here, including o...
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