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Dealers

Equipment Roundup: Chevy Silverado gets a 3L diesel, bigger body; Liebherr debuts 50 M5 XXT concrete pump truck; Kenworth intros fuel cell T680; Gradall Discovery designed for disaster

Gradall intros Discovery Series excavators designed for emergency cleanup Gradall says it has come up with a low-cost solution for local and state governments facing emergency cleanup, such as occurred with last year’s string of devastating hurricanes. The company’s Discovery Series excavators were used during storm recovery on the Gulf Coast and in the Bahamas […]

January 24, 2018

Vocational

Chevy sets all-new Silverado 4500, 5500 unveiling for March at the Work Truck Show

Chevrolet says it will reveal the all-new Silverado Class 4500 and 5500 chassis cab trucks at The Work Truck Show 2018, which takes place March 6-9 in Indianapolis. The Work Truck Show is North America’s largest work truck event and this year it is expected to draw more than 11,000 public and private truck fleet […]

January 12, 2018

Vocational

GM recalls 2011-15 Chevy Silverado, GMC Sierra 3500 models due to fuel tank issue

GM is recalling certain 2011-2015 Chevrolet Silverado 3500 and GMC Sierra 3500 trucks equipped with dual fuel tanks. The low fuel level sensor for the front tank may stick causing the rear tank to overfill the front tank. GM will notify owners, and dealers will replace the rear tank fuel pump or update the fuel-level […]

December 6, 2017

Pickups

Chevy unveils Colorado ZR2 AEV, a Duramax-powered rock crawler

Chevy has taken lessons learned from overland expeditions and off-road racing and applied them to the Colorado ZR2 AEV Concept. The truck illustrates Chevy’s commitment to the Colorado as a major platform for the automotive brand moving forward and how in the last several years it has embraced testing and introducing new concepts to its […]

November 23, 2017

Pickups

PHOTOS: The showstopping custom vintage trucks of SEMA 2017

Over the last several years we’ve seen pickups slowly take over more and more floor space at the annual SEMA show in Las Vegas. And this year it felt like we saw more vintage trucks than in years past. In the gallery below I’ve collected my favorite classic truck builds from SEMA 2017. If you […]

November 15, 2017

Dealers

Equipment Roundup: GM unveils SURUS fuel cell work truck platform; Acela 6×6 service truck; Vermeer dual rod rock drill; Ditch Witch AT40; SDLG L918F

SDLG intros L918F wheel loader as ‘ideal yard machine’ SDLG unveiled its L918F compact wheel loader at ICUEE last week, which the company describes as “an ideal yard machine for many utility contractors.” Read more   Ditch Witch AT40 debuts with new All Terrain drilling system The Ditch Witch AT40 horizontal directional drill—built on the […]

October 17, 2017

Vocational

GM unveils SURUS, a fuel cell chassis for autonomous work and military trucks of the future

One year after debuting the Chevrolet Colorado ZH2, a hydrogen fuel-cell-powered pickup designed in collaboration with the U.S. Army Tank Automotive Research, Development and Engineering Center, General Motors has unveiled a new platform that the automaker hopes will translate what has been learned from the ZH2 into larger commercial and military trucks. Dubbed the Silent […]

October 11, 2017

Vocational

Chevy’s Navistar-built work trucks will be Silverados

During an event at the State Fair of Texas, General Motors announced that the Chevy-branded medium duty work trucks it has been developing in partnership with Navistar will be called the Silverado 4500 and Silverado 5500. The trucks, announced in October 2015 and set to launch in late 2018, represent a long-awaited return to the […]

October 3, 2017

Pickups

Chevy attacks F-Series aluminum with new bed test, other videos; Ford rolls eyes

Chevy is taking on Ford again in five recently released videos (watch them below), including a new truck bed challenge that once again left the aluminum bed of a Ford pickup punctured despite the automaker’s efforts to make it stronger over an earlier design. Though not as dramatic and popular as last year’s truck bed […]

July 21, 2017

Construction Equipment

Hood scoop key piece in Chevy’s creation of its most powerful HD pickups yet

Chevy’s 2017 Silverado 2500 and 3500 pickups aren’t just special to the automaker because they’re new. Thanks to the 6.6-liter Duramax diesel at the heart of these heavy duty pickups, Chevy says these are the most powerful vehicles it has ever produced. Introduced last October, the 6.6L Duramax V8 got a complete redesign intended to […]

July 19, 2017

Pickups

Diesel-powered Chevy Silverado 1500 spied in testing

ICYMI: The Silverado is going diesel! https://t.co/tPSeyOoCsc pic.twitter.com/F17fDNdRoz — Off-Road.com (@OffRoaddotcom) June 24, 2017 Looks like even Death Valley provides no escape from spy photographers. A heavily camouflaged, diesel-sipping Silverado was photographed at a fueling station there at Death Valley National Park. Looking at the pictures posted on autoguide.com, it’s plain to see that the truck […]

June 28, 2017

Roadbuilding

GM R&D, Michigan DOT collaborate on smart traffic signals

General Motors Research & Development, the Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT) and the Macomb County Department of Roads have recently conducted demonstrations in the county near GM’s Warren Technical Center in developing vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) at two intersections. During the demo on Mound Road, the GM vehicles were able to receive data from the traffic controllers […]

June 13, 2017