FINALLY, SOME BIG NEWS by Rolf Lockwood September 9, 2009 Vol. 5, No. 18 It’s been a mostly gray day here in Battle Creek, Michigan but the folks at Eaton Corp. have been smiling broadly nonetheless. That’s…
WHAT WILL 2009 HOLD? by Rolf Lockwood December 31, 2008 Vol. 4, No. 27 So here we are at the end of a year that won’t be remembered fondly. Good riddance, you might say. Trouble is, the…
THE BUZZ IS ELECTRIC by Rolf Lockwood September 23, 2009 Vol. 5, No. 19 Let me start with praise for what seems to me like a very useful gizmo that you’ll see described in greater detail in…
POWER, ONE WAY OR ANOTHER by Rolf Lockwood January 28, 2009 Vol. 5, No. 2 Last time out I told you that the Maxxforce 15 engine that Navistar International announced to analysts a couple of weeks ago was…
NOT JUST HYBRIDS by Rolf Lockwood November 5, 2008 Vol. 4, No. 23 I’M GOING TO GIVE HYBRIDS A REST for a bit. Well, almost. Can’t avoid them entirely. Honestly, I think this newsletter has been…
DOES CAT HAVE ANOTHER LIFE? by Rolf Lockwood January 14, 2009 Vol. 5, No. 1 Oh boy. And oh boy again. Things are getting mighty interesting on the engine front. As if they weren’t that way already. Predictably,…
IT’S A WRITER’S EURO LIFE by Rolf Lockwood July 16, 2008 Vol. 4, No. 15 So there I was, strapped into the seat of a Kamaz Paris-Dakar rally truck, five-point harness and all, with a somewhat crazed but…
LET THERE BE LED LIGHT by Rolf Lockwood July 30, 2008 Vol. 4, No. 16 Well, somebody’s finally done it. An LED headlamp is actually in production. Who knows how much it will cost, but Truck-Lite has a…
CUMMINS SAYS ‘YES’ TO SCR by Rolf Lockwood August 13, 2008 Vol. 4, No. 17 WOW! BIG NEWS out of Indiana hit the street today as Cummins announced that it’s going to use selective catalytic reduction (SCR) technology…
HANNOVER REPORT, DAY ONE by Rolf Lockwood September 24, 2008 Vol. 4, No. 20 Predictably, the 62nd incarnation of the IAA Commercial Vehicles Show here in Hannover, Germany seems to be dominated by issues of fuel and…
HYBRIDS COMING OF AGE by Rolf Lockwood October 22, 2008 Vol. 4, No. 22 My brain’s buzzing, folks, after attending yet another information-intensive event last week. There’s just so much to write about these days and so…
NEW FACTORY SHOWS THE WAY by Rolf Lockwood August 28, 2008 Vol. 4, No. 18 FIRST OFF, MY APOLOGIES to all for the troubles we had with my last e-newsletter on Aug. 13. Actually, it should have gone…
AN ADVENTURE ABROAD by Rolf Lockwood September 10, 2008 Vol. 4, No. 19 LET’S START WITH SOME GOOD NEWS, an all too rare phenomenon these days. It’s not a huge deal, I’ll admit, but if you’re…
’07 ENGINES TO LAST LONGER? by Rolf Lockwood December 3, 2008 Vol. 4, No. 25 No, I don’t mean by the headline above that the engines of our present emissions standard are more durable than others, though that…
HANNOVER REPORT, PART TWO by Rolf Lockwood October 8, 2008 Vol. 4, No. 21 Last time out I offered a preliminary report after the first of two press days at the huge IAA Commercial Vehicles Show…
