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Power options chip away at big-diesel marketshare
Engines greater than 10 liters will account for more than 85% of Class 8 production between 2020 and 2024, predicts the “N.A. Commercial Vehicle On-Highway Engine Outlook,” published by ACT Research and Rhein Associates. At the same time, a trend toward smaller-displacement engines is expected to continue.
January 20, 2020
Business
Volvo’s D13TC engine updated for greater fuel efficiency
Volvo Trucks recently debuted the next generation of its turbo compound technology. The evolution has improved fuel efficiency over the current D13TC, 13-liter turbo compound engine by 3%. What’s more, the new engine delivers up to 11% fuel savings overall compared with model-year 2015 trucks,
September 9, 2019
Business
Fleet intends to appeal court’s decision to toss Navistar settlement order
Two years after a jury ruled that Navistar, maker of International Trucks, owed Tennessee-based Milan Express more than $30 million over alleged defects of the company’s MaxxForce engine line, an appellate court has tossed the decision.
August 20, 2019
Channel 19
CARB dismantled my truck, now it’s hauling around Mexico
That was the case after a truck owner participated in California’s Prop 1B grant program for truck replacement. After his truck was dismantled, a GPS unit that had been inadvertently left hardwired behind the dash reported years’ worth of positions at work south of the border in Jalisco.
March 21, 2019
Overdrive Radio
Weighing ECM retune options, or full-on emissions defeats, with enforcement risk
In this edition of Overdrive Radio, I went in-depth my colleague James Jaillet about his reporting on the EPA’s increasing willingness to wield the enforcement sword around heavy-duty emissions modifications, and what owner-operators should weigh when thinking about ECM retunes. Also: owner-op Dean DeSantis on improving OEM emisisons tech.
December 14, 2018
Voices
POLL: Have you utilized a device for or worked with a shop on an ECM retune or emissions delete?
What’s been your experience of ECM-retuning devices or emissions defeats in the recent past, if any?
December 13, 2018
Custom Rigs
‘Career gambler’ Dean DeSantis and the aptly-named 2018 Peterbilt 389 with 124-inch ARI sleeper
When it comes to custom rigs, “In the world of everybody building gliders, I’m a guy who kind of cuts across the grain a little bit,” says Dean DeSantis.
October 30, 2018
Business
Rental kits for ECM programming needs
Diesel Laptops’ new Remote Programming Kits are available for most engine makes to fleet managers, shop owners, mechanics and individual owners and enthusiasts in need of quick, one-time solutions to atypical situations.
July 13, 2018
Business
Electric trucks update: NACFE releases pro-con list for electric power, Nikola sues Tesla over truck design
The North American Council on Freight Efficiency on Tuesday outlined 10 arguments for and against the viability of electric trucks. Meanwhile, two key players in the electric truck market — Nikola and Tesla — are in a legal dispute over their trucks’ design.
May 2, 2018
Business
After losing legal appeal, CARB is voiding some compliance alternatives added in 2014
The time has expired for legal appeals to save CARB’s 2014-introduced “compliance alternatives” to the engine upgrades and retrofits required by its in-use diesel regs. Emails attempting to clarify the situation have been going out this month to truck owners with CARB-registered trucks still taking advantage of one or more of those alternatives.
April 30, 2018
Overdrive Radio
The mechanical prowess — and ELD trials and tribulations — of Randy Carlson
Owner-operator Carlson’s approach to the business follows an early career as a mechanic, learning from his father, who also trucked, then in trade school and on the job at an International dealer — a solid basis on which to build an owner-operator business. Is it less common than it used to be?
August 10, 2017
Business
Cummins brings two new, rebranded 15-liter engines to market
Heavy-duty diesel engine maker Cummins this weekend introduced two new 15-liter engine offerings that will come to market late this year. The 2017 Cummins X15 engines offer two new configurations: The fuel-economy focused X15 Efficiency spec for long-haul applications and the X15 Performance spec for heavy-haul and other more demanding applications.
July 25, 2016
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