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36,000-horsepower semi truck outruns a microjet plane in a drag race

The spectacle below took place in September at the 2014 Naval Air Station Oceana Airshow in Virginia Beach. And if it’s any indication of just how good this airshow is, if you live within driving distance, you should probably make a point of going to see it in person. For the first 7 or so […]

October 28, 2014

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With Mercedes-Benz 2025 Future Truck, Daimler unveils a vision of future haulers without mirrors or headlights

Today’s truck designs are vastly different than those of 15 years ago. OEMs have introduced major advancements in aerodynamics, integrated safety systems and new engine and powertrain options that make the squared-off, long-nose offerings of years past look like dinosaurs. But those design changes largely have been incremental over the years. Until now. Daimler introduced […]

September 24, 2014

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Peterbilt debuts its own self-driving truck, gives autonomous Model 579 demo at ITS World Congress

Advanced technologies capable of autonomous driving to complement vehicle operators was showcased during the ITS World Congress in Detroit this week. The innovative system was demonstrated on a Peterbilt Model 579 concept truck. “The autonomous truck of the future is an extension of existing, individual systems already available for today’s commercial vehicles,” said Bill Kahn, […]

September 10, 2014

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REVIEW: Mack Titan is a beast of a truck with tremendous handling

If you went into a lab and boiled down everything Mack trucks has learned and experienced over the past 114 years to its purest essence—every battlefield Macks have fought on, every jobsite, every bridge, dam and highway they’ve helped build, you’d probably come away with a truck very close to the 2014 Mack Titan. […]

May 1, 2014

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Dozer towing a truck, towing a mining excavator goes predictably wrong, rips off truck’s front end

No. 5 Video in 2014 « NO. 6 NO. 4 »   We can’t figure exactly how these guys thought this system would work out, but what they’ve accomplished has to be the highest number of bad ideas ever caught on tape. With the huge load of that mining excavator sinking that tiny trailer and […]

April 25, 2014

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PHOTOS: Transformer and heavy hauler Optimus Prime invades Mid-American Trucking Show

[imagebrowser id=47] Our friends at sister site Overdrive are covering the big Mid-America Trucking Show in Louisville, Kentucky this week and grabbed a bunch of photos of the Western Star 4900X. This is the truck that is starring as Optimus Prime in this summer’s next installment of the Transformers movie series. The custom truck was unveiled last […]

March 27, 2014

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TEST DRIVE: Mack Titan

Our trucks editor Jack Roberts was in Allentown, Pennsylvania yesterday where he toured the Mack facility there and got to take a test drive in the new Mack Titan. The truck features Mack’s largest engine, the MP10, with 515-, 565- and 605-horsepower models available. Torque is rated at 2,060 lb.ft. at 1,200 RPMs. In the videos […]

March 21, 2014