WASHINGTON RAINS MONEY by Rolf Lockwood January 13, 2010 Vol. 6, No. 1 Gee whiz, some serious coin is leaving Washington on its way to you folks who live south of the border, albeit a…
ENGINES, ALGAE, & SCOTCH by Rolf Lockwood December 17, 2008 Vol. 4, No. 26 These days it’s hard to see through the haze of economic woe — and those nasty visions of a later retirement than I’d…
NOBODY BELIEVES ANYBODY? by Rolf Lockwood May 6, 2009 Vol. 5, No. 9 As if on cue, I had an e-mail a week ago back from the purchasing chief of a prominent Canadian company looking for…
ADVENTURES IN ENGINEERING by Rolf Lockwood April 22, 2009 Vol. 5, No. 8 Montreal in April isn’t quite the same as springtime in Paris, and not just because they speak two different brands of French. You’ll…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
LET’S TALK UREA by Rolf Lockwood November 19, 2008 Vol. 4, No. 24 Amidst all the fury and fear-mongering about our woeful state of financial affairs, and I mean pretty much the entire industrialized world, one…
CAT GOES TRUCKIN’ AGAIN by Rolf Lockwood April 8, 2009 Vol. 5, No. 7 Hey, there’s big news to report from deep in the American heartland, namely Illinois. You’ll remember that Caterpillar and Navistar announced last June…
