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Dealers

Equipment Roundup: Autonomous Track Loader designed for grading, excavation; Cat C9.3B engine sets stage; Compact excavators getting better; Freightliner delivers wreaths; JLG site preparing customers for aerial lift standards

New Cat C9.3B engine sets stage for the future: Simpler, smaller, more HP and torque Caterpillar has launched a new engine that will serve as a blueprint for many of the company’s engines to come. The C9.3B is a simpler, lighter engine system with 18 percent more power compared to previous engines said Christopher Massey, […]

December 27, 2017

Dealers

Business roundup: Freightliner honors “elite” salespeople; New Canadian JCB dealer; Cox named Terex Cranes NA sales director; ASV adds National First Equipment of Ohio

Freightliner Trucks honors “elite” salespeople Freightliner Trucks has named “Elite status” to its top 44 sales professionals and seven sales managers. They’ll be honored at a special awards ceremony early next year. The 44 have been recognized with “Elite” status as part of Freightliner’s annual Leland James Elite Sales Achievement program. Created in 2003 in […]

December 19, 2017

Dealers

Freightliner Trucks honors “Elite” salespeople

Freightliner Trucks has named “Elite status” to its top 44 sales professionals and seven sales managers. They’ll be honored at a special awards ceremony early next year. The 44 have been recognized with “Elite” status as part of Freightliner’s annual Leland James Elite Sales Achievement program. Created in 2003 in honor of Freightliner Trucks’ founder, […]

December 18, 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

Truck, engine makers and industry groups pleased with final Phase 2 emissions standards

Industry stakeholders wasted little time in reacting to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and U.S. Department of Transportation’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) new emissions and fuel economy standards for medium- and heavy-duty vehicles. Daimler Trucks North America (DTNA) endorsed the mandate, which calls for a phased-in reduction of up to 25 percent in […]

August 17, 2016

Construction Equipment

I learned how to operate Freightliner’s autonomous truck. It’s a strange, yet comforting, experience

In May, when Freightliner pulled the curtain back on its new Inspiration autonomous truck model, the company promised CDL-holding journalists the opportunity to get a Nevada autonomous truck endorsement in the fall. This week, I found myself once again at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway—just north of Sin City—where I was able to climb behind Inspiration’s wheel […]

September 22, 2015

Construction Equipment

TEST DRIVE: Freightliner’s 108SD, 114SD work trucks blend power, serious comfort on long haul through Texas hill country

What do you do if you’re Freightliner and your OTR market share numbers are in the stratosphere? You turn your attention to the vocational truck market, of course. Freightliner has always had a vocational presence. But about four years ago, the company decided it was time to update its work truck lineup to take advantage […]

June 15, 2015

Roadbuilding

Nevada governor pushes for NDOT officials to lead the self-driving vehicle revolution

Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval wants his state to be at the forefront of the potential autonomous vehicle revolution. Sandoval said June 8 Nevada Department of Transportation officials should add support for self-driving cars into the state’s $550+ million highway project in Las Vegas, the Las Vegas Sun reported. He added he hopes the state can play […]

June 10, 2015

Technology

Freightliner unveils first self-driving truck that will roam U.S. highways legally (PHOTOS)

Freightliner did it. If you’re one of the many who scoffed at the idea of a commercially-viable self-driving truck, or at best figured such technology was years—if not decades—away, you need to reset your expectations. At a press event today at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway outside Las Vegas, NV, Freightliner, in conjunction with the […]

May 5, 2015

Construction Equipment

Gradall mounts an excavator atop a Freightliner M2: the roving, “more dig for the dollar” Discovery Series

Saying that Gradall wanted to give its users “more dig for the dollar,” the company is introducing what it calls “the industry’s first crossover hydraulic excavator,” says Michael Haberman, Gradall president. The Discovery models—including the two-wheel-drive D152 in production by May and a four-wheel-drive D154 to be introduced later this year—offer the company’s signature full-tilting, […]

February 11, 2015

Roadbuilding

Road worker killed while picking up construction cones

Dylan Joseph Snyder was killed in Kansas after being hit by a trash truck.  Snyder, 22, was picking up road construction cones and signs when the truck rear ended one vehicle and sideswiped two others stopped for the construction. After hitting the vehicles, the truck struck Snyder who was airlifted to Christi Medical Center’s St. Francis […]

July 25, 2014

Construction Equipment

PHOTOS: ConExpo 2014 Day 3: Tour the tons of trucks at the show

[imagebrowser id=42] It’s not a truck show per se, but that doesn’t mean ConExpo isn’t a show that doesn’t love trucks. In all honesty, it’s hard to stand anywhere at the show and not see a truck in at least one direction. But if you’re like us and were looking for trucks at ConExpo, then […]

March 7, 2014