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Terrorist truck attacks spur attention to AEB systems around the world
Australia is reportedly moving toward mandating AEB for all new heavy trucks, following Europeās lead, after automatic braking prevented further loss of life in last yearās truck attack at a Christmas market in Berlin.
June 28, 2017
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 ā and some advice ā in supplementary reporting on the No. 5 top challenge to owner-operator businesses.
August 10, 2012
Overdrive Extra
Owner-operator on a fuel-economy test run
In May independent Albert Transport owner-operator Henry Albert participated in a test run of the 2014 Freightliner Cascadia Evolution (pictured) to track and compare its fuel-efficiency against an EPA 2010-compliant Cascadia. We reported about the test just last week. This week, heās been sharing results of this unique experience over on his blog as part [ā¦]
June 7, 2012
Channel 19
Mack Trucks on āMade in Americaā TV Tues., Nov. 15
TheĀ Made in America series will featureĀ Mack Trucks in an episode Tuesday, Nov. 15, at 8 p.m. Eastern and Pacific.Ā MackĀ continues to build every truck it sells in North America ā and every truck it exports ā in the Lehigh Valley region of Pennsylvania. Made in America host George Motz (pictured with a Mack Pinnacle tractor) and [ā¦]
November 13, 2011
Channel 19
Custom rig as educational shuttle ā a Mack contribution to the space program
Itās not as big as its sister ships. Nor has it ever gone into orbit. But for more than two decades, the Shuttle Blake has served a very important mission ā educating students about space exploration.Ā Mack Trucks has been part of the story all along. In the early 1980s Bob Boehmer, a teacher at [ā¦]
June 8, 2011
Channel 19
Is large truck lemon law needed?
Thereās only a couple effective lemon laws in the country that actually provide protection from ādefectiveā Class 8s for buyers. If youāve as yet missed my March cover story in Overdrive on the subject, click on the images here to read, or access the text version here. Among sources was Mike Noll, a retired owner-operator [ā¦]
March 11, 2011
Channel 19
Mack CEO on āUndercover Bossā this weekend; Overdrive editor on magazineās 50th anniversary
Mack prez works from the trenches Class 8 trucks come to CBS reality-TV seriesĀ Undercover Boss this weekend,Ā featuring Mack Trucks President & CEO Denny Slagle. The broadcast will be from 9-10 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 20, Eastern and Pacific. In making the episode, as with others in the series, the company president went undercover to work side-by-side [ā¦]
February 14, 2011
Business
Truck tax breaks sought
Truck representatives have sought a short-term 10 percent tax credit towards the purchase of Class 8 trucks with 2010 engines.
August 30, 2010
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