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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
One serious Series 60 in action at truck pull in N.Y.
A look under the hood of owner-operator Erich Owens’ 2001 Western Star powered by a 12.7-L Detroit capable of pushing 2,000 horsepower at a truck pull, then moving back to freight hauling serving the mushroom industry.
July 25, 2013
Business
Natural gas payoff: Utility, ROI in construction trucking apps
While natural gas engines and retrofits are not cheap, the key question is your return on investment. Does it pay to run a truck or a fleet on natural gas?
May 29, 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
Channel 19
A few extra horses power rig through snow
Sometimes, the best solutions to problems are the simplest. Or that’s one way of looking at the vid below, posted to YouTube by user roush61799 on Feb. 21 and purporting to come from Amish country in Central Pennsylvania. Four horses and a farmer’s cart tied to the front end of a big Peterbilt pulling a tanker […]
March 10, 2011
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