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Business

Caterpillar will continue using Navistar engines in vocational truck line despite production split

Caterpillar has decided to amicably end its on-highway truck production partnership with Navistar and venture out on its own, moving production of the Cat CT-Series trucks, which The Wall Street Journal estimates to be about 1,000 units a year, to a shared production facility in Victoria, Texas. The plant currently produces Caterpillar hydraulic excavators and will add about 200 additional […]

July 29, 2015

Roadbuilding

Ram pickups recalled as part of Chrysler’s vulnerability to wireless hacking

Ram says it is recalling certain vehicles equipped with 8.4-inch touchscreens in a sweep that updates software to prevent connected vehicles from being hacked. Model year 2013-2015 Ram 1500, 2500 and 3500 pickups; and 2013-2015 Ram 3500, 4500, 5500 Chassis Cabs were added to the recall list Friday. In a controlled test, Wired last week reported it was able to […]

July 29, 2015

Business

Caterpillar splits with Navistar, will design and build its own vocational trucks in Texas

Caterpillar has announced a parting of ways with truck maker Navistar, ending a six-year partnership between the two companies that launched the Cat brand into the vocational truck market. MORE >> Navistar to launch new line of severe duty work trucks once split with Cat is complete Cat has worked with Navistar to design and build […]

July 28, 2015

Business

Navistar to launch new line of severe duty work trucks once split with Cat is complete

With Caterpillar’s announcement this morning that it would begin designing and building vocational trucks on its own, Navistar, Cat’s partner in the work truck business up to this point, has announced plans to launch a new line of trucks once the partnership has officially concluded. In a brief announcement released alongside Cat’s news, Navistar said it would […]

July 28, 2015

Roadbuilding

Two dump trucks rear ended in same Kansas DOT work zone 2 days in a row (PHOTOS)

A construction zone on Interstate 470 has been unlucky for Kansas Department of Transportation dump trucks this week. Two KDOT dump trucks were crashed into two days in a row. The latest of the coinciding collisions came on Wednesday afternoon when a KDOT dump truck with a large arrow display board and crash attenuator was rear […]

July 27, 2015

Construction Equipment

GM unveils 2016 Chevrolet Silverado, GMC Sierra with redesigned front ends (PHOTOS)

No. 3 Story in 2015 « No. 4 No. 2 »   Thanks to some spy shots snapped while the truck was in testing back in April, we knew design changes were coming to the next-generation Silverado. And based on what we could see under the prototype truck’s masking, it appeared GM’s top selling half-ton […]

July 20, 2015

Construction Equipment

PHOTOS: Meet the 1966 Volvo DR 631: aka Gravel Charlie, the first articulated dump truck ever created

One display at the recent Volvo Days event in Sweden had a decidedly nostalgic turn: the 1966 Volvo DR 631, the company’s first articulated hauler, also dubbed “Gravel Charlie.” Reconditioned by the nearby Munktell Museum in Eskilstuna, the Gravel Charlie is credited with starting an entire new category of construction equipment. While a 10-ton hauler […]

July 14, 2015

Construction Equipment

PHOTOS: The Bugtruck, a Volkswagen Beetle/1950 Chevy Frankentruck, is the coolest mini pickup we’ve ever seen

Some folks don’t see the point in a small truck. They’ve got things to do, people and things to carry and can’t abide a four-foot bed thank you very much. But even the most utility-mindful truck fan couldn’t dislike the Bugtruck, or at least want to know what it’s like to cram yourself inside this […]

July 8, 2015

Construction Equipment

Ram Truck designers discuss how they came up with the new Rebel and Laramie Limited grilles

With the unveiling of the 2015 Rebel and Laramie Limited pickups earlier this year, Ram introduced its most distinctive grilled designs yet, representing the first major changes to the brand’s iconic front facia in more than 20 years. The truck maker recently released a video featuring interviews with the brand’s historians and designers on the history […]

July 7, 2015

Roadbuilding

Samsung’s “see-through” semi truck is neat, but its existence hints at a much more exciting future for transportation

Korean tech giant Samsung has revealed what it calls the “Safety Truck,” aimed at helping those attempting to pass big rigs see oncoming traffic better. The system uses a wireless camera mounted on the truck’s front and transmits the video feed to four monitors built into the trailer doors. The model seen here and in […]

July 6, 2015

Construction Equipment

Watch a Caterpillar 797 mining truck manufactured and crane-assembled in this awesome time-lapse

Anyone who’s had the thrill of standing next to a Cat 797 mining truck knows the machine is larger than life. So, it should come as no surprise that the task of manufacturing such a machine is a bit…involved. For instance, some of you might be unaware that the trucks are so massive they are only […]

July 1, 2015

Oils & lubricants

PHOTOS: Tearing apart a Detroit Diesel DD15 engine to see how well it holds up with the new PC-11 lube oil

A massive amount of lab work goes into formulating a new heavy-duty diesel engine oil. But when the guys in the white coats have had their say, every prototype oil goes through extensive field trials. Shell Lubricants has put about 40-million miles on some 450 vehicles to field test its oil for the upcoming PC-11 […]

June 30, 2015