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Lockwood's Product Watch: a bi-weekly report on the industry's newest products and services, collected and written by Rolf Lockwood. Plus recent goodies that you may not have seen before, such as worthy items that didn't get much of a marketing push at the time of their introduction. We'll cover it all.
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Lockwood's Product Watch
(Sendout Date - January 27, 2010) -
January 27, 2010 Vol. 6, No. 2
The heavy-duty engine business, as if it wasn't already pretty interesting, just got more so with the announcement that PACCAR's 12.9-litre MX diesel will be on sale by this summer. With emissions control by a combination of selective catalytic reduction and exhaust gas recirculation to limit emissions. The ...
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Lockwood's Product Watch
(Sendout Date - January 13, 2010) -
January 13, 2010 Vol. 6, No. 1
Gee whiz, some serious coin is leaving Washington on its way to you folks who live south of the border, albeit a little indirectly. And even less directly, those of us north of the 49th parallel will benefit too as our common trucking technology is moved forward. On behalf of all trucking Canucks, I say than...
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Lockwood's Product Watch
(Sendout Date - December 30, 2009) -
December 30, 2009 Vol. 5, No. 26
Just before Christmas a pretty interesting story cropped up, namely the news that Navistar has entered into a development and supply agreement with Amminex (www.amminex.net), a Danish emissions-control systems provider, to produce an SCR-based solution for diesel engines in years to come.
Whaaat? Navi...
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Lockwood's Product Watch
(Sendout Date - December 16, 2009) -
December 17, 2009 Vol. 5, No. 25
More than a few times I've joked about fitting some sort of aftertreatment device on the back ends of the world's cows. Farticulate filters perhaps. It's not such a bad idea, really, because they emit an ungodly amount of nasty gases like methane that do more harm to the atmosphere than diesel-engined tr...
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Lockwood's Product Watch
(Sendout Date - December 02, 2009) -
December 2, 2009 Vol. 5, No. 24
There's no doubt in my mind, none at all, not even a tiny shred, that stability control systems of one sort or another should be mandated on tractor-trailers ASAP. I'd go further and include commercial trucks of all sorts, from light vans to cement mixers. Heck, why stop there? I want to see the technolog...
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Lockwood's Product Watch
(Sendout Date - November 18, 2009) -
November 18, 2009 Vol. 5, No. 23
Let's start the proceedings on the international scene. Motor noters in Europe have chosen the Scania R Series as Truck of the Year for 2010. Its previous incarnation won the same prize back in 2005. The jury, which consists of leading commercial vehicle journalists from 22 European countries, cited the ...
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Lockwood's Product Watch
(Sendout Date - November 04, 2009) -
November 4, 2009 Vol. 5, No. 22
For what is normally a 'slow' period in our beleaguered industry, things are actually hopping. No surprise, of course, given the pressures to trim and cut back and stay alive while still trying to see a way forward. And for the moment at least, truck manufacturing is going full tilt.
I spent a couple o...
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Lockwood's Product Watch
(Sendout Date - October 21, 2009) -
October 21, 2009 Vol. 5, No. 21
Gee whiz, my last newsletter effort (‘Where’s the Leadership,’ Oct. 7) seems to have struck a chord with a lot of folks. Two weeks ago I was bitching and moaning about the almost total lack of government leadership, especially in Canada, in terms of helping us develop and commercialize new technologies. I...
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Lockwood's Product Watch
(Sendout Date - October 07, 2009) -
October 7, 2009 Vol. 5, No. 20
Those of you who read this newsletter more or less regularly will know that I have an international perspective on trucks and trucking. Canadian I may be, but there's really not enough happening here on the cutting edge to hold my interest for very long at all. For the most part, our efforts to push the te...
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Lockwood's Product Watch
(Sendout Date - September 23, 2009) -
September 23, 2009 Vol. 5, No. 19
Let me start with praise for what seems to me like a very useful gizmo that you’ll see described in greater detail in a separate product item below. I’m talking about the Chassis Grabber. Now, I haven’t touched one, haven’t seen it in the flesh, don’t know the company from Adam, so what business do I ha...
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