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Tag: tractors
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 â and some advice â in supplementary reporting on the No. 5 top challenge to owner-operator businesses.
August 10, 2012
Channel 19
Amid big fleet investments, operators stare down high truck prices
Something is going right for the Jacobson Companies 3PL â Mack Trucks announced yesterday that they took delivery of an order of 259 built-in-the-U.S. Mack Pinnacles, 139 daycabs and 120 sleeper trucks, and theyâre hiring dedicated company drivers for runs based out of their Des Moines, Iowa, headquarters. Any owner-operators out their run freight for [âŚ]
May 27, 2012
Channel 19
Two J&S Petes â views from a new custom player
The combination of the J&S Truck and Trailer Sales dealer in Knoxville, Tenn., and J&S Body Shop, run by Benny Coffey in nearby Corryton, showed these two newly restored / customized Petes at the Southeastern Regional Truck Show in Knoxville last month. Theyâre lookers, thatâs certain, and both on sale at the J&S sales installation [âŚ]
May 9, 2012
Channel 19
Human-powered Mack tractor pull
Theyâve called it the âmost powerful truck Mack has ever built.â Powered by the Mack MP10 engine with a top rating of 605 hp and 2,060 lb.-ft. of torque, the Titan (pictured) was âengineered for handling the toughest jobs in the most extreme conditions â oil fields, logging, heavy equipment hauling,â says company spokesman John Walsh. [âŚ]
December 6, 2011
Channel 19
Cabover extra in âReal Steelâ film to be auctioned Dec. 8
Joyce Smith, co-owner of Ron Smith Trucking of Breckenridge, Mich., shuttered the company about a year ago, a month after her husband passed away. The small fleetâs equipment will be auctioned off on Dec. 8 at their place in nearby Wheeler. Among the 17 tractors on offer (among livestock, flatbed and other trailers as well [âŚ]
November 16, 2011
Channel 19
T370 Kenworth hits medium-duty landmark in Quebec plant
A Kenworth T370 was recently recognized as the historic 100,000th medium duty truck produced at the Paccarâs Ste-Therese, Quebec, manufacturing plant. The plant, which opened as a brand-new facility in 1999, has clearly been hard at work during that time in the medium duty space. âThe employees at the Paccar Ste-Therese are especially dedicated to building [âŚ]
July 27, 2011
Business
Mid-America Trucking Show
Kentucky Exposition Center, Louisville, www.truckingshow.com, (502) 899-3892
February 8, 2011
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