Tag: Class 8 trucks

Business

What’s the total cost of ownership of a Class 8 truck over 15 years?

A new Class 8 truck off the lot of a dealership is likely going to cost between $113,000 for a day cab and $125,000 for a sleeper, but as owner-operators are well aware, that’s jut the beginning of the cost of ownership. Here one report’s 15-year total.

January 27, 2016

Equipment

Granite MHD saves weight for ready mix hauler

California-based A&A Ready Mixed Concrete takes advantage of the Mack Granite MHD’s features for several hundred pounds per truck of bigger payload.

September 27, 2012

Channel 19

Too big for Texas?

For one Texas rest stop: Trucks. And if ATA’s Bill Graves has his way, the 85 mph speed limit on a stretch of State Highway 130.

September 13, 2012

Business

August Class 8 orders rebound, up 27 percent

FTR’s preliminary data shows August Class 8 truck net orders at 15,935 units, up 27 percent from July.

September 7, 2012

Business

Trucking rebound outpaces economy, but outlook is fuzzy

Trucking has recovered from the recession much better than the economy at large, but the rebound slowed in recent months, economist Jim Meil said. Various domestic and global trends cast doubt on what’s next. Meil, vice president and chief economist for Eaton Corp., addressed the Commercial Vehicle Outlook Conference in Dallas today. A former professor, […]

August 23, 2012

Channel 19

Equipment: Probing sticker shock

Reports from operators show roughly a 30 percent rise in new-tractor pricing between 2006 and 2012 model years. Find out how operators are reacting to that rise — and some advice — in supplementary reporting on the No. 5 top challenge to owner-operator businesses.

August 10, 2012

Channel 19

Diesel exhaust listed by WHO as cancer causing agent

The International Agency for Research on Cancer, part of the World Health Organization, has formally categorized diesel exhaust as cancer-causing but fails to recognize advancements in diesel technology in the developed world.

July 23, 2012

Channel 19

Two custom ’80s Petes for the cabover fanatics

These two Peterbilt 362s, owned by Dustin Kunkel and John Bradford, respectively, we caught out at the Crossville, Tenn., show of the ATHS Music City Chapter.

July 21, 2012

Overdrive Extra

Paccar MX tough-tested with Louisville aggregate hauler

Keith Redden’s retirement dream was to start a trucking firm. “I said if I owned six trucks, I could make a living,” he says. After a start in 2003 with three used Kenworths from a home base in Floyd’s Knob, Ind., across the Ohio River from Louisville, his K Redden Trucking business is up to […]

July 16, 2012

Channel 19

Rapper 50 cent rear-ended by … a lesser-known Kool Keith track

Over on the Juice blog at Billboard’s website, word is rapper 50 Cent (pictured) collided with a Mack truck on the Long Island Expressway after the driver’s load shifted, causing him to lose control of the rig. (The driver was OK.) Many of you may remember 50’s “In Da Club” record from 2003, whose rolling […]

July 5, 2012

Channel 19

Cabover fanatics, this one’s for you: 1973 K100 vid

Bill Bradford’s video of the restoration of his antique Kenworth COE.

June 25, 2012

Channel 19

PHOTO: Mack ‘truck stop’ concession stand

This red, white and blue Mack Titan cab was installed June 6 to the side of the concession stand at the Levitt Pavilion at SteelStacks, an arts and cultural center on the former site of Bethlehem Steel in Bethlehem, Pa. Find more about the new installation here.

June 24, 2012