As Kenworth celebrates its 90th anniversary, the truck maker took time recently to recognize the truck restorations completed by a couple of its biggest Canadian fans. Highlighted in a recent release were Gord Cooper of Calgary, Alta., ...
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Global truck makers are targeting India's commercial vehicle segment with Fiat Group's Iveco and American Paccar looking to enter the country to tap the potential of the world's third-largest truck and bus market. Paccar, headquartered in ...
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Westport Innovations Inc, engineering the world's most advanced natural gas engines and vehicles, today unveiled its next generation of high pressure direct injection technology platform dubbed "Westport™ HPDI 2.0." This new ...
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Air disc brakes from Bendix will be standard on all Kenworth Class 8 tractors and trucks. "We've offered Bendix air disc brakes as an option on our Class 8 trucks previously. Customers appreciate their superior performance, car-like feel, ...
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Kenworth has announced air disc brakes from Bendix will be made standard on the steer axles of Class 8 tractors. The Bendix ADB22X reduces brake fade with no degradation of stopping power, according to the company. Bendix recently ...
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With a display reminiscent of the parent company's dominating presence at the giant IAA commercial vehicles exhibition in Germany, Daimler Mexico made its intentions clear at this past week's Expo Transporte, the bi-annual Mexican truck ...
PACCAR held an opening ceremony today to launch its new DAF assembly plant in Brasil. The ceremony, led by Mark Pigott, PACCAR chairman and chief executive officer, and Parana Governor, Beto Richa, was attended by state and local ...
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Dairy Farmers of America (DFA) and Select Milk Producers have inked an agreement with AMP Americas to convert their fleets to compressed natural gas (CNG) -powered trucks. As per the agreed terms, AMP-Trillium, the joint venture between ...
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c, the vocational T880, is now available for order. The truck is aimed at dump, mixer, refuse and heavy-haul applications. The T880 comes standard with the Paccar MX-13 engine rated up to 500 hp and with 1,850 lb.-ft. of torque. "The ...
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Kenworth has announced its popular T680 has reached the 10,000-order mark since entering production 15 months ago. "This has been one of the fastest Kenworth models to achieve the 10,000 truck order milestone in Kenworth's 90-year ...
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According to Americas Commercial Trucking (ACT) Research, the average selling price of total reported Class 8 used trucks continued to hold up better than expected in August, 2013. “For the first seven months of this year, prices ...
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Kenworth is taking its all-new T880 and T680 with 52-inch sleeper on a North America road tour, including six dates in Canada. The tour will visit 34 Kenworth dealerships in the US and Canada before the end of the year, the company ...
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Volumes for used Class 8 trucks sold in July, 2013, recovered from the steep decline they experienced in June. All three market segments, auction, retail, and wholesale, contributed to the sequential gain, with the total market improving 4% ...
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Performance Innovation Transport (PIT) has wrapped up testing on 6x2 tractors, which shows fuel savings of 2.6-3.5% compare to 6x4 configurations. The testing was done in conjunction with PIT's Energotest trials in Blainville, Que. in ...
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Sylvain Noel tore up the track at the 33rd running of the Rodeo du Camion in this little Quebec town last weekend, surprising everyone by driving his very clean Kenworth W900 to first place in both the bobtail and loaded A-division ...
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