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Equipment

Kenworth T880 riding boost in vocational demand

Kenworth reports a year-over-year sales increase for vocational trucks, particularly its new T880 flagship, reflecting growing construction activity, increased oil and gas production and encouraging new housing starts figures.

July 25, 2014

Equipment

Peterbilt medium-duty cabover rolls off assembly line

The Class 6-7 Peterbilt Model 220 cabover is suitable for an array of applications, from urban pickup-and-delivery to refuse and street sweeping and striping.

July 17, 2014

Equipment

Navistar stresses vocational commitment

The company refined SCR transition schedules and introduced new vocational options — and the TerraStar bagged work truck of the year awards.

March 7, 2014

Business

Body-upfit resources from Mack

Mack Trucks is making business easier for body upfitters by making its Body Builder Manuals available as free downloads MackTrucks.com.

March 4, 2014

Business

Kenworth, Peterbilt models at World of Concrete

Peterbilt will show its new all-purpose vocational Model 567, Kenworth its T880 with mixer body (recently in full production), at the World of Concrete trade show in Las Vegas January 21-24.

January 16, 2014

Equipment

Granite MHD refuse option

The Mack Granite Medium Heavy Duty (MHD) rear loader introduced at the 2013 Canadian Waste and Recycling Expo.

November 21, 2013

Equipment

Kenworth T880 vocational model available for order

Kenworth’s T880 flagship vocational model is suitable for heavy haul, refuse, dump, mixer and other applications. Find a gallery of images of the model, and more detail, in this story.

October 31, 2013

Business

KW T370 all-wheel-drive spec

The Navajo Tribal Utility Authority chooses all-wheel drive as its standard spec to navigate miles of diverse off-road terrain. Its most recent purchase: several Kenworth T370s in 4×4 and 6×6 configurations.

August 1, 2013

Business

New Dana axle, driveshafts

At the ATA’s Technology and Maintenance Council annual meeting in Nashville, Tenn., Dana introduced new Spicer axles, driveshafts.

March 11, 2013

Equipment

Mack vocational: New Granite MHD 4×2

Mack Trucks launched a 4×2 version of its Granite MHD vocational truck at the NTEA Work Truck Show in Indianapolis.

March 6, 2013

Equipment

Vocational spec’ing: With downspeeding trend, keep close eye on torque/hp combo

In the past, heavy duty vocational trucks may have been spec’d with 550 hp and 1,950 lb.-ft. of torque to get the load rolling. Today, 470-hp engines with 1,850 lb.-ft. torque can do the job.

February 26, 2013

Business

Hino, Cummins, Paccar top power rankings for medium-duty engines

Class 5, 6 and 7 truck engines and transmissions were rated in J.D. Power’s U.S. Medium Duty Truck Engine and Transmission Study of vocational application models.

October 18, 2012