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Construction Equipment

Komatsu unveils Autonomous Haulage Vehicle, a mining truck that doesn’t even have a cab

Though it offers autonomous operation on its 830E and 930E haul trucks, Komatsu has unveiled at the MINExpo show in Las Vegas a mining truck designed specifically for unmanned operation. Typically, the only difference you can spot between manned and unmanned mining trucks is the lack of an operator inside the cab. But Komatsu’s aptly-named […]

September 29, 2016

Trucks

Liebherr unveils 100-metric-ton T 236 mining truck, D98 engine series at MINExpo

At MINExpo Tuesday, Liebherr unveiled its T 236 100-metric-ton mining truck, in addition to a new D98 diesel engine series. While not yet commercially available, the company expects pre-series T 236 units to be made available for selected markets. Using a vertically integrated Litronic Plus Generation 2 electric drive system, the T 236 is designed […]

September 28, 2016

Vocational

How Cat is using the 793F haul truck to bring automation to more machines

Caterpillar first started internal discussions on autonomous trucks back in 1996, says Jim Hawkins, director of the company’s mining technology enabled solutions, “but really we didn’t start in earnest until 2012. We really wanted to focus on how to make an autonomous truck outperform a truck with an operator.” Company executives, including Hawkins and Cat group […]

September 27, 2016

Class 7-8

Automation to transform trucking ‘faster than most think,’ forecasters say

The trucking industry is on the precipice of 10 to 20 years of change unlike it’s ever experienced, says transportation economist Noël Perry, and carriers and haulers who want to survive these changes must be prepared for them, he said. “The last major change we had was deregulation,” he said. “And it had only a […]

September 22, 2016

Vocational

Mack working to integrate WheresMyConcrete’s real-time mixer data into telematics service

Mack Trucks has announced that it is working to connect real-time concrete mixer data into its telematics service through a partnership with WheresMyConcrete. WheresMyConcrete is a service that allows mixer fleet dispatchers to track delivery and order progress as it happens. The cloud-based software gives dispatchers a 30,000-foot view of the entire operation through order updates, mix […]

September 21, 2016

Dealers

Curry Supply names Wilt director of marketing

Commercial service vehicle manufacturer and dealer Curry Supply has named Heather Wilt as the company’s director of marketing with responsibilities for corporate marketing strategy, advertising, event management, public relations and digital marketing. Wilt most recently served as global director of marketing and communications at an equipment manufacturer focusing on the mining and aggregate industries. Her […]

September 21, 2016

Vocational

Kenworth intros the T880S, a set-forward front axle configuration

Kenworth is adding a set-forward front axle configuration to its T880 work truck, the company announced Monday at the  National Ready Mix Concrete Association’s (NRMCA) ConcreteWorks show. The new configuration—the T880S—is designed for fleet and truck operators in ready-mix, dump and mobile crane applications. Jason Skoog, Kenworth assistant general manager for sales and marketing, says […]

September 20, 2016

Trucks

Komatsu intros the 980E-4, its largest haul truck yet

Boasting a new dump body design, improved handling, control and performance, Komatsu has introduced to North America its largest mining haul truck yet in the 980E-4. An electric drive truck with 400-tons of capacity, the 980E-4 is designed for use in large-scale mining applications in tandem with big bucket (55-99 cubic yards) shovels like the […]

September 19, 2016

Roadbuilding

Hauler invents the GTII, a rear truck blade that spreads gravel as it dumps

Tim Hudson, a North Dakota farmer and gravel hauler, has developed a new and better way to spread gravel, The Dickinson Press reports. “Started getting into some jobs where we couldn’t dump at high speeds,” Hudson told the news agency. “Needed to be able to spread at low speeds, so that’s where I came up with […]

September 14, 2016

Construction Equipment

Test Drive: Backing a Mack Granite with 70k-lb. load uphill no problem with new 14-speed mDrive HD AMT

I learned how to drive on a stick shift. I like driving with a stick. But not in a Class 8 truck, which is where I found myself two weeks ago, standing on the brakes of a Mack Granite dump truck, nose pointed downhill, holding 70,000 pounds of gravel against the law of gravity. My […]

September 13, 2016

Vocational

Volvo demos FMX autonomous truck in a dark mine by placing CTO in its path

The safety debate over autonomous truck driving just got a lot more interesting thanks to a new video from Volvo which shows one of the company’s top executives daring to stand in the path of one its autonomous FMX truck.   During the roughly two-minute long video, the FMX cab-over concept truck is shown traversing […]

September 12, 2016

Class 7-8

Switch to hydrogen-powered turbine cuts Nikola One electric heavy hauler’s HP in half

Nikola Motor Company, who earlier last month announced that its truck would output zero emissions, this week confirmed that zero NOx is thanks to a hydrogen fuel cell. The company says the electric drivetrain used in the U.S. and Canadian markets on its One heavy hauler will be powered by a custom-built hydrogen-electric 800V fuel […]

September 8, 2016