THINNER OIL HAS ADVANTAGES June 29, 2016 June 29, 2016 Vol. 13 No. 13 Back in the day — and I mean baaaack — just about every cheap car I owned as a teenager had an engine…
AFFORDABLE DISCS, NIKOLA SUCCESS June 15, 2016 June 15, 2016 Vol. 13 No. 12 I’m a very big proponent of spec’ing disc brakes on heavy trucks. They simply stop the vehicle sooner. Without fade when they get…
MOST AERODYNAMIC VOLVO? June 1, 2016 June 1, 2016 Vol. 13 No. 11 Lately there’s been some interesting news out of the Volvo Group in Sweden, with both a dramatically aerodynamic tractor-trailer unit offering almost…
MIND-BLOWER TRUCKS May 18, 2016 May 18, 2016 Vol. 13 No. 10 Last week there was a media frenzy surrounding the announcement of the Nikola One class-8 tractor running mostly on electricity, plus a…
The Lockwood Report May 4, 2016 May 4, 2016 Vol. 13 No. 9 You could be forgiven for thinking that the electric hybrid powertrain idea, like other alternative fuel efforts, had all but died in the…
WHO WON TRUCK OF THE YEAR? April 26, 2016 January 28, 2015 Vol. 12 No. 2 Let’s start the proceedings in San Francisco, never a bad idea, where the American Truck Dealers (ATD) recently announced the 2015 Truck…
A VERY PERSONAL TOP 10 LIST April 26, 2016 January 14, 2015 Vol. 12 No. 1 Last time out, before the wine flowed on New Year’s Eve in fact, I wrote about five developments on the technology front that…
IT’S ALL ABOUT THE DATA April 22, 2016 July 29, 2015 Vol. 12 No. 15 Predictive diagnostics is closer than you might think. “I don’t think we’re further than five or 10 years away,” said Friedrich Baumann, senior…
The Lockwood Report April 20, 2016 April 20, 2016 Vol. 13 No. 8 Last week I had the pleasure of chairing the inaugural Canadian Fleet Maintenance Summit, ‘CFMS’ for short, a day in advance of…
The Lockwood Report April 6, 2016 April 6, 2016 Vol. 13 No. 7 About this time two weeks ago I was being chauffeured down the A52 autobahn in Germany by a guy with no hands on…
The Lockwood Report March 25, 2016 March 23, 2016 Vol. 13 No. 6 Daimler Trucks has taken its leading-edge status one rather large step forward with the introduction of the Highway Pilot Connect platooning system. In…
ALT FUELS & WORK TRUCKS March 9, 2016 March 9, 2016 Vol. 13 No. 5 The falling price of diesel made this year’s version of the Green Truck Summit in Indianapolis a somewhat predictable affair last week. The…
The Lockwood Report February 24, 2016 February 24, 2016 Vol. 13 No. 4 Connectivity is a byword of modern trucking life but you’ve never seen it like this. How about a truck seat that can be…
The Lockwood Report February 10, 2016 February 10, 2016 Vol. 13 No. 3 The venerable PayStar is gone, replaced by the new International HX Series, a line of heavy vocational trucks and tractors aimed at…
The Lockwood Report January 27, 2016 January 27, 2016 Vol. 13 No. 2 Like our dog with the big bone he’s been working on for more than a year, I’m going to keep chewing on the…