Tag: on-highway trucks

Class 7-8

International’s new predictive cruise control optimizes truck performance in real time using GPS and route data

International Truck announced Wednesday it is now offering GPS-based predictive cruise control as an option on its ProStar and LoneStar trucks. International’s predictive cruise control uses preinstalled GPS maps and updated commercial route data to make adjustments to cruising speed without the need to pre-drive the route. “When [predictive cruise controls] originally came out, the systems kind of […]

July 14, 2016

Equipment

New diesel lube oil category in the works

Every time emissions parameters on diesel engines are changed, the petroleum companies and engine OEMs come up with a new lube oil standard to help protect the engines against an increasingly harsh operating environment. The American Petroleum Institutes CJ-4 oil standard has held sway since the introduction of the 2007 on-road engines and Tier 4 […]

December 14, 2012

Roadbuilding

Caterpillar, Navistar begin next phase of global truck alliance JV for on-highway, vocational trucks

Caterpillar Inc. and Navistar International Corp. are moving forward with the next phase of cooperation between the two companies to develop, manufacture, sell and support vocational and on-highway trucks for both the North America market and worldwide. The plans were publicly announced on Sept. 29. In June of 2008, the two companies announced plans to […]

September 29, 2011