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This Ford F-150-shaped corn maze is neat, but the real star is its F-450 pumpkin cannon (VIDEOS, PHOTOS)

Each year the folks at Leaders Farms in northwest Ohio choose a theme for their famous corn maze. This year, Brad Leaders got a bit of inspiration from the new Ford F-150. After all, he’s been using a Ford as his primary pumpkin firing apparatus for years. “Brad was reading a magazine last winter and […]

October 29, 2015

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Toyota includes select Tundra model years in massive power window recall

The Tundra pickup is one of several models Toyota is including in a massive, 6.5 million-vehicle global recall related to a defect with the vehicles’ power windows. The automaker is recalling 2 million vehicles in the U.S. alone, including an unspecified number of 2009-2011 model year Tundras. The trucks could be affected by the issue […]

October 23, 2015

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PHOTOS > Toyota recreates Marty McFly’s SR5 dream truck from ‘Back to the Future’ with a 2016 Tacoma

The iconic Delorean DMC D12 may be the star of the Back To The Future movie franchise, but it was a 1985 Toyota SR-5 Xtra Cab 4×4 that a teenaged Marty McFly longed for – and Jennifer Parker, of course. For what was widely referred to as Back To The Future Day, Toyota celebrated October […]

October 22, 2015

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First Drive: 2016 Ram 3500’s big Cummins power, improved cab impress in test track run

It wasn’t too long ago that if you needed to tow a 30,000-pound payload, you needed a Class 5 or 6 truck to get the job done. Today, all you need is a Ram 3500 pickup truck. The truck maker invited Equipment World out to its test track in Chelsea, Michigan, to give its 2016 trucks a […]

October 21, 2015

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Allison 4700 automatic among new options for Kenworth work trucks

Kenworth has added Allison’s 4700 RDS 7-speed automatic transmission with optional second “deep reverse” as an option on its Kenworth’s T880, T800, W900, and C500. The transmission is part of the Allison rugged duty series, which Kurt Swihart, Kenworth marketing director, says is ideal in applications calling for an increase in overall transmission ratios. […]

October 15, 2015

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Chevrolet partners with Navistar in return to medium-duty work truck market. Why they did it and what to expect

By James Jaillet General Motors and Navistar have reached a long-term agreement to develop and assemble medium-duty, conventional cab Class 4 and 5 commercial vehicles, confirming rumors of late that the two were set to strike a deal on medium-duty vehicles. There will be two versions of the trucks produced in the partnership—one Navistar-International branded […]

October 12, 2015

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Ford issues 2015 F-150 recall due to adaptive cruise control defect

As we saw with both the 2016 F-150 Limited and the recently-unveiled 2017 Super Duty pickups, Ford is placing an emphasis on technology in its attempts to stand out from the rest of the truck-making crowd. And that’s a good thing. Among the 16 segment-first Ford touts on the new Super Duty trucks are a […]

October 9, 2015

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PHOTOS: Custom, crane and HD trucks and vans cram ICUEE (with some sweet UTVs too)

More than anything else at the International Construction & Equipment Utility Expo every two years, there are trucks. So many trucks. Most of them are of the shiny white variety with either a crane or bucket mounted to the back. But there are also lots of cool custom pickups to see along with some very […]

October 1, 2015

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PHOTOS: 1955 Dodge Power Wagon with Tel-E-Lect digger derrick started it all for Terex Utilities

With Terex celebrating the 70th anniversary of its digger derricks and utilities business, the heavy equipment manufacturer decided to bring along a throwback with all of the new equipment being shown at this year’s International Construction & Utility Equipment Exposition. Near the edge of the L lot of the Kentucky Exposition Center in Louisville, Terex has […]

September 29, 2015

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Ford unveils 2017 Super Duty trucks: redesigned aluminum body, better tow/haul, ton of tech (PHOTOS, VIDEO)

No. 15 Story in 2015 « Intro No. 14 »   We’ve seen more of Ford’s new Super Duty trucks before their actual unveiling than any pickup in recent memory. First there was the prototype that exploded in Death Valley during testing last August. Then there was that leaked photo of an F-250 in all its chromed out glory […]

September 24, 2015

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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

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2017 F-150 Raptor prototype braves soft terrain, logs and water in Ford trail testing

After unveiling the new aluminum design of the 2017 F-150 Raptor in January, Ford engineers have been hard at work testing the new truck’s capabilities through trail trials in Northern Michigan. In the footage below released by Ford, we get a taste of what to expect from the new truck, with Ford saying the 2017 Raptor […]

September 21, 2015