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Pickups

Ford issues recalls on F-150, Super Duty pickups over two defects

Ford announced two recalls today for certain late-model F-150, Explorer and Super Duty vehicles due to seating and door handle cover defects. The first recall affects roughly 2,500 2017 F-150, Super Duty and Explorer vehicles which may have an inadequate weld between the driver seat back and the manually operated seat back recliner mechanism. In the affected […]

June 1, 2017

Pickups

Ford details F-150 redesign: 2018 refresh features Super Duty styling, customer feedback

First announced in January, Ford has provided a few more details from its engineering team on its coming refresh of the F-150 lineup. The automaker says the new design takes cues from its Super Duty lineup, giving the half-ton truck what the automaker calls a “tougher,” “more capable” look. Ford says customer feedback played a big role […]

May 12, 2017

Construction Equipment

Ford unveils 2018 F-650, F-750 with improved handling, braking

Ford is updating its largest trucks for improved performance and serviceability for the 2018 model year, including adding electronic stability control and traction control brakes as standard on all 2018 F-650 and F-750 tractor models. The system will initially be optional on certain F-750 diesel air-braked straight trucks with high-center-of-gravity-body upfits. For tow trucks, road service […]

May 10, 2017

Pickups

Ford files patent for sliding pickup bed

Loading and unloading a pickup bed can be a real challenge. To help make the job easier, Ford has come up with plans, seen in the images below, for a sliding bed floor that it submitted recently to the U.S. Patent Office. The automated floor may be available on the automaker’s upcoming hybrid F-150 which […]

April 19, 2017

Vocational

Hybrid F-150, Super Duty conversions now covered under Ford’s Qualified Vehicle Modifier program

Before the automaker releases a factory-built hybrid F-150, Ford has announced that it is extending its Advanced Fuel Qualfied Vehicle Modifier (eQVM) program to include third-party installation of both electric and hydraulic hybrid powertrains on Ford trucks and vans. Citing a commitment to “being a leader in electrification,” Ford says it wanted to provide commercial and […]

March 17, 2017

Trucks

PHOTOS: The Trucks of ConExpo 2017

While the main areas in terms of crowd draw at ConExpo 2017 in Las Vegas last week were the immense Gold Lot and the packed North Hall, maybe my favorite afternoon of the week was wandering around the South Hall where you could find truck after truck. Custom paint jobs, service bodies, Hellcat HEMI engines […]

March 16, 2017

Dealers

Equipment Roundup: Updates on Caterpillar, Tier 4 equipment sales, DEF contamination tips, Ford Super Duty recall, top 10 videos of 2016

The Top 10 Construction Equipment Videos of 2016 We’ve gone back through our thousands of posts to determine the top 10 construction equipment videos on the site for 2016. These are ranked in order based on the number of clicks you, our dear readers (and watchers), provided. And this might actually be our favorite mix […]

January 2, 2017

Dealers

Equipment Roundup: Updates on Cat M-Series small loaders, Nikola One, Honda Ridgeline

Cat upgrades M-Series small wheel loaders with Payload Management, intros 930M Ag Handler Caterpillar has introduced several enhancements to its three M-Series small wheel loaders as part of a 2017 update and has introduced a variant of the 930M designed as an Ag Handler. The company first introduced the 926M, 930M and 938M loaders at […]

December 19, 2016

Pickups

Pro Comp intros suspension kits for ’15 Ford Super Duty, 22″ Extreme MT tire

Pro Comp recently made a couple of pickup-related announcements that those driving into jobsites on a daily basis will find interesting. First up, SEMA judges dubbed the Ford Super Duty as the most accessory-friendly truck on the market this year, and Pro Comp is jumping on that bandwagon with new 6- and 8-inch lift and […]

December 12, 2016

Pickups

Ford smashes Chevy’s world record as F-450 flies with largest American flag tow ever

When it comes to torque ratings, Ford’s latest Power Stroke V8 in the 2017 Super Duty trucks already edged out the new 6.6-liter Duramax in GM’s 2017 HD pickups with a torque rating of 925 lb.-ft. to 910. And now Ford’s new turbo diesel has allowed one Super Duty truck to break a Guinness World Record set by […]

November 28, 2016

Pickups

Shockzilla, an 8-in. lifted F-250 with exhaust stacks, shows how beautiful a Super Duty Raptor could be

Though Ford used this year’s SEMA show to unveil the F-150 Raptor that it will race at the Baja 1000, we were a bit more taken by another off-road engineered pickup at the automaker’s booth. Meet Shockzilla, maybe our closest approximation yet as to what a Super Duty version of the Raptor might look like. Created by Fabtech […]

November 16, 2016

Pickups

Ford Super Duty wins its first Motor Trend ‘Truck of the Year’ award

Motor Trend has named the 2017 Ford Super Duty as its latest “Truck of the Year.” Though it is the fifth time an F-Series pickup has won the Motor Trend award, it is the first time the award has gone to the Super Duty lineup. “We judge the contenders based on six categories—from design to […]

November 15, 2016