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Business
New purchase: Trucking under warranty until retirement
Jerry Boyd, leased to Bennett Motor Express, last month was on the verge of trading his 2016 ProStar for a new truck to close his trucking career under a five-year 500,000-mile warranty.
April 9, 2018
Business
Buyers welcome: The truck purchasing landscape for owner-ops
Economic conditions, tax changes, productivity pressures and equipment improvements have spurred a big increase in truck purchasing by owner-operators and fleets of all sizes.
April 4, 2018
Voices
POLL: Your most-recent truck purchase: Bought new, used, or leased?
Owner-operators, was your most recent truck acquisition a new or glider purchase, a used-truck purchase or a straight lease or lease-purchase? Weigh in here pursuant to an upcoming feature on the truck-purchasing landscape.
February 25, 2018
Channel 19
Are tax changes relative to equipment investment and depreciation enough to move you?
Tax reformâs depreciation update explored: Do short-term sizable tax gains under new depreciation rules give you sufficient impetus to make an investment you might otherwise not have? Or do you view other purchase considerations as primary in any truck-purchase decision, taxes playing little role?
February 23, 2018
Business
Full-service leasing on the rise?
Combine rapidly developing and complicated truck technology with new-equipment cost pressures and the Millennial generationâs rising presence in trucking, and some watchers see full-service leasing being increasingly attractive to small fleets.
August 17, 2016
Voices
POLL: New, used, leased: How did you buy your last truck?
New, used or glider? Lease-purchase or straight lease? What best describes your most recent truck purchase?
May 20, 2015
Equipment
Navistarâs SCR transition nearing fruition with TranStar model
The launch of the International TranStar regional-haul tractor with a MaxxForce 13 engine employing Selective Catalytic Reduction (SCR) emissions technology continues Navistarâs SCR transition.
August 8, 2013
Equipment
Father-son team finds sweet gig shoring up dikes
Gerald and Jake Albrecht specâd these near-identical Kenworth W900L models with Rihm Kenworth in Northern Minnesota for side dump hauling around North Dakota levees.
September 20, 2012
Channel 19
Volvo hosting worldwide âmagical hourâ with truck launch
Following slackliner Faith Dickeyâs wire walk between two moving Volvo rigs, the truck maker is hosting a live worldwide unveiling of the European-model FH Wed., Sept. 5.
September 4, 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 â and some advice â in supplementary reporting on the No. 5 top challenge to owner-operator businesses.
August 10, 2012
Business
Schneider plans fleet upgrade
By January, Schneider National will have replaced a third of its fleet with 3,000 new trucks.
May 8, 2012
Channel 19
Vids of the new Caterpillar truck â the CT660
âNo one knows heavy-duty like Caterpillar,â says the official promo vid for the new Class 8 from Caterpillar, the CT660. Long-awaited in the wake of Catâs announcement that the company was getting out of the on-highway engine market, and entering the truck market, the new truck is here (pictured), built in partnership with Navistar. For [âŚ]
March 29, 2011
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