RADICAL NEW TREAD TECHNOLOGY COMING FROM MICHELIN

June 21 Vol. 2, No. 13 Hate to say it, but I’ve just come back from a few days in Paris. As in France. Croissants, extremely good coffee, and…

HINO’S NEW PLANT & A BATTERY SAVER

June 7 Vol. 2, No. 13 The biggest news of the past couple of weeks on the product front isn’t about a specific bit of hardware, rather a factory.

MORE BRAKES, MORE SOFTWARE

May 10 Vol. 2, No. 11 Before I write anything else here, let me remind you that the 43rd annual Canadian Fleet Maintenance Seminar is on tap next week.

BIG MOVE AT CUMMINS

May 10 Vol. 2, No. 10 It’s a mixed bag with this edition of the newsletter and its featured products, though one recent development stands out. In what looks…

REEFER INNOVATION AND A REVIVAL

April 26 Vol. 2, No. 9 Never ending. That’s the only way to describe the task of writing about the countless products that have been launched in the last…

ENGINES, TRUCKS, & A NIFTY TRAILER

April 12 Vol. 2, No. 8 These days it’s all about engines. No matter where you look out there in hardware land, you either see 2007 engines or you…

STERLING FILLS OUT THE LINEUP

March 15 Vol. 2, No. 7 No doubt about the big deal this time out – an all new truck. When Sterling launched its new medium-duty cabover a couple…

NEAT NEWS: TIRES, SPRINGS & COOLANT

NEAT NEWS: TIRES, SPRINGS & COOLANT March 1, 2006 Vol. 2, No. 5 Among the nifty new products first seen at the annual meeting of the Technology and Maintenance Council…

ENGINES DOMINATE AT TMC

February 15, 2006 Vol. 2, No. 4 We’re getting down to the short strokes with the engines that will power trucks built after January 1, 2007. Though we’ve known at…

VOCATION IS EVERYTHING

February 1, 2006 Vol. 2, No. 3 A lot of news came out of the World of Concrete show in Las Vegas a week or so ago, like the revival…

LIGHTWEIGHT SUSPENSIONS & SMOOTH BORDER CROSSINGS

January 4, 2006 Vol. 2, No. 1 My very first road test of a heavy truck was way back in the last century, actually almost three decades ago, and…

A STERLING, A MONSTER DIESEL, AND ONE BIG ADVANTAGE

December 21, 2005 Vol. 1, No. 8 Well, we’re getting a little closer to the actual introduction of DaimlerChrysler’s gift to its Sterling dealers – a little class 3 to…

INSPECTION TOOLS, AIR DISCS, AND A DISCOUNT

December 7, 2005 Vol. 1, No. 7 I should probably begin by talking about the emergence of satellite radio on the Canadian scene, courtesy of XM and Sirius –…

AN APU WITH A TWIST, PLUS EASY TRIP REPORTS

November 23, 2005 Vol. 1, No. 6 There’s certainly no shortage of auxiliary power units around these days, and that’s not a bad thing. This time we feature a recent…

IMPROVED APU, ASSET TRACKING AND MORE

October 26, 2005 Vol. 1, No. 5 We continue this time out with more product news from the recent American Trucking Associations convention in Boston. We simply didn’t have…