SO MUCH NEWS! March 21, 2018 March 21, 2018 Vol. 15 No. 6 There’s been so much happening of late, so many product introductions, that I can’t begin to cover everything here. I only aim to…
GOING GREEN: A BROAD VIEW March 7, 2018 March 7, 2018 Vol. 15 No. 5 First, some random observations from the road, before I get into the meat of things… The road in this case is the 900…
PLATOONING: THE HUMAN SIDE February 21, 2018 February 21, 2018 Vol. 15 No. 4 One of the things that concerns me about platooning is the driver’s side of the equation, especially the poor sap in the following…
DETROIT’S DD8 IS READY February 7, 2018 February 7, 2018 Vol. 15 No. 3 The new Detroit DD8 engine, first hinted about in 2015 and formally introduced a year ago, has been in production since late…
ELECTRIC OLD AND NEW January 24, 2018 January 24, 2018 Vol. 15 No. 2 The Tesla Semi buzz may have died down but the electric idea in general is still gathering steam. Volvo Trucks, for one,…
TRUCKS AT CES January 10, 2018 January 10, 2018 Vol. 15 No. 1 A minor miracle is underway as I write this, namely the presence of trucks at the massive CES consumer electronics show this week…
The Lockwood Report December 27, 2017 December 27, 2017 Vol. 14 No. 26 Hard to figure this is my last newsletter of the year, but wow, what a year it’s been. It feels like I’ve seen…
The Lockwood Report December 13, 2017 December 13, 2017 Vol. 14 No. 25 So I joked with somebody today, saying that I can’t walk down the street any more without six people asking me, “So whaddya…
The Lockwood Report November 30, 2017 November 29, 2017 Vol. 14 No. 243 Tesla, Tesla, Tesla… have any of us heard the name often enough in the last week or so? Whatever else you may think…
The Lockwood Report November 14, 2017 November 15, 2017 Vol. 14 No. 23 So last week I spent an illuminating day at the annual Cetaris user group meeting here in Toronto, in the company of…
The Lockwood Report November 1, 2017 November 1, 2017 Vol. 14 No. 22 Before I write anything else, let me offer an apology concerning a bad link in The Lockwood Report of October 18 with the…
The Lockwood Report October 19, 2017 October 18, 2017 Vol. 14 No. 21 Electronic logging devices haven’t made an appearance in this newsletter for as far back as I can remember, maybe never. But with the…
The Lockwood Report October 4, 2017 October 4, 2017 Vol. 14 No. 20 Everybody’s talking electric. Or so it seemed at last week’s inaugural North American Vehicle Show (NACV) in Atlanta, Ga. And it wasn’t just…
The Lockwood Report September 20, 2017 September 20, 2017 Vol. 14 No. 19 So where are we going? What’s around the corner? Where will we be in 20 or 30 years? Recently I was asked to…
The Lockwood Report September 6, 2017 September 6, 2017 Vol. 14 No. 18 If you’re one of those who’s been thinking that Cummins is a dead duck, and that’s been the tone of more…