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Pickups

3.0L found in Land Rover SUVs will reportedly power Ford’s 2018 F-150 diesel

Ford’s 2018 diesel F-150 will reportedly be powered by the 3.0-liter diesel engine used in Jaguar Land Rover vehicles. Ford manufactures the turbocharged V6 diesel engine used in Range Rover and Land Rover SUVs at its plant in Dagenham, United Kingdom. “Ford also says the engine is designed, tested, and engineered specifically for use in […]

July 13, 2017

Vocational

Dump truck overturns at stoplight, injures several

Brake failure may be to blame for a frightening dump truck crash at a busy intersection last week in Kennesaw, Georgia. Video below posted by WSB-TV shows the truck plowing into several vehicles that had stopped at an intersection around 2 p.m. Wednesday on Barrett Parkway near Interstate 575, about 15 miles northwest of Atlanta. […]

July 13, 2017

Safety & Compliance

Pipeline contractors request short-haul exemption from ELD mandate

By Matt Cole   An association representing the pipeline construction industry – including truck drivers who contract to haul equipment for pipeline construction projects – and a specialized equipment fleet are seeking exemptions from the electronic logging device mandate set to take effect on Dec. 18. The Pipe Line Contractors Association (PLCA) is requesting the […]

July 12, 2017

Vocational

Fassi intros F345A, F345RA XE medium-duty knuckle boom cranes

Fassi has introduced two new XE knuckle boom cranes in its medium duty range. The new F345A xe-dynamic and F345RA xe-dynamic cranes have a maximum lifting capacity of 33.4 tm with a maximum hydraulic horizontal outreach of 20.5 m, which can be increased to 26.7 m in a configuration with six telescopic booms combined with […]

July 5, 2017

Class 7-8

“Disruptive” electric tractors might end up hauling heavy trucks in the opposite direction

A couple of years ago, you were probably being inundated by the sheer volume of headlines proclaiming natural gas as trucking’s great disruptor. Then diesel prices – the ultimate disruptor – dropped and have held under $3 per gallon for more than a year. One of my Facebook friends recently posted a query, asking his […]

July 4, 2017

Components

Michelin’s new X Multi D tire lasts longer, supports high-torque applications

Designed for a wide variety of applications, the new Michelin X Multi D tire introduced this week features a number of innovative design features. The rubber in the tire is not a uniform compound, but rather a co-extruded rubber compound that combines a top layer of scrub resistant rubber with a bottom layer at the […]

June 30, 2017

Business

Safety, Profits and Productivity — The Many Benefits of ELDs for construction fleets

Tracking hours of service compliance is just a fraction of what most ELD systems can do. Some of the simplest, most inexpensive systems – often a smartphone app paired with an engine control module (ECM) connection device – come with web-based, back-office unit tracking software and dispatch tools. Others have more robust back-end programs. Contractors […]

June 26, 2017

Class 7-8

Electric trucks will drive supplier innovations says Michelin COO

The pending tidal wave of electric trucks that may or may not ever see the highway presents a unique set of challenges for tire makers: Torque management. In an interview with sister site CCJ during the company’s global summit for sustainable mobility in Montreal Tuesday afternoon, Michelin Americas Truck Tires Chief Operating Officer Ralph Dimenna said innovations in […]

June 22, 2017

Construction Equipment

Cummins developing fully-electric powertrain: “We are not just a diesel company”

In an effort to diversify its commercial transportation product portfolio beyond diesel and natural gas-powered engines, Cummins announced it will introduce a fully electrified powertrain solution for the urban transportation market by 2019 and a range-extended electrified powertrain by 2020. The company said electric powertrain solutions for pickup and delivery and material handling applications would […]

June 19, 2017

Safety & Compliance

With Supreme Court blow to ELD legal challenge, mandate has no roadblocks remaining

The Supreme Court on Monday delivered a death blow to the Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association’s legal challenge to the U.S. DOT’s electronic logging device mandate. With the high court’s rejection, the lawsuit will go no further. Though there are efforts underway to engage Congress on the issue, spearheaded in part by OOIDA, the issue […]

June 19, 2017

Safety & Compliance

ELD Roundup: The logging products you should know about

Dispatching Solutions DSI eLogs Dispatching Solutions’ cloud-based DSI eLogs is
certifed on FMCSA’s registry and is available as
 either a dedicated unit or a BYOD solution for both the Android and iOS operating platforms.
Drivers can see their electronic logbook status in real time, and the back office can view the
 entire fleet and help manage driver […]

June 16, 2017

Vocational

Dump truck diaper covers tailgate gap, prevents debris damage

You’ve heard it said that necessity is the mother of all invention, and that’s definitely the case for Kevin Goldstein, owner of Devon Demo in Patterson, New Jersey. Goldstein was getting tired of complaints—and even worse—paying for damages done by small aggregate that slipped through the gap on his dump trucks’ tailgates and chipped windshields […]

June 16, 2017