Tag: Freightliner Cascadia

Class 7-8

Freightliner partners with Waymo for Level 4 autonomous Cascadia

Daimler Trucks and Waymo will work together towards deploying an autonomous SAE Level 4 Freightliner Cascadia by 2024. Details here on Equipment World.

November 10, 2020

Class 7-8

Heavy-truck market settles down as technology advances ramp up

After the huge backlogs and massive sales numbers in recent years, the truck market has returned to calmer days. But calm isn’t stagnant, as ongoing changes to technology and market conditions clearly demonstrate.   A return to normalcy Perhaps the best news for those seeking to invest in new trucks is that the lead time […]

December 31, 2019

Dealers

Equipment Roundup: Rivian RT1 electric pickup goes 0-60 in 3 secs.; Cat intros 903D; The biggest equipment stories of 2018; Spot the robot dog gets a construction job; Freightliner intros tractor with autonomous driving

Freightliner intros new Cascadia tractor with Level 2 automated driving Though we’ve seen interesting battery-powered electric pickup designs from companies like Workhorse and Bollinger, not to mention the rumored mammoth model Tesla is working on, the most compelling model we’ve yet seen is from a company called Rivian. Built atop a common “Skateboard” platform, Rivian […]

January 14, 2019

Class 7-8

Freightliner intros new Cascadia tractor with Level 2 automated driving

Level 2 automation means the truck can accelerate, decelerate and steer independently. The 2020 Cascadia will be the first SAE Level 2 automation-capable truck.

January 9, 2019

Class 7-8

Freightliner helps deliver Wreaths Across America to honor vets

Morrill Worcester, owner of Worcester Wreath Co. in Harrington, Maine, is better known as the man behind Wreaths Across America, a nonprofit organization dedicated to remembering and honoring veterans during the holidays. In 1992, the wreath company donated remembrance wreaths that were placed on the graves of veterans at Arlington National Cemetery in Washington, D.C.. […]

December 22, 2017

Roadbuilding

Freightliner makes cross-country natural gas haul

A CNG-powered Cascadia 113 with a Cummins ISX12G natural gas engine will carry a load of paper from LA to DC.

May 18, 2012

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Freightliner makes cross-country natural gas haul

[kaltura-widget wid=”8qdzcqo5ag” width=”320″ height=”292″ addpermission=”” editpermission=”” align=”right” /]A Cascadia tractor with a 30,000 pound trailer full of waste paper will set out from Long Beach, Calif., bound for a recycling facility in Washington, DC. It’s a long way to haul a load of waste paper. But it’s just a side project. The tractor in question […]

May 18, 2012