At the PACCAR engine plant in Columbus, Miss., Tony Sablar, Peterbilt Motors Co.’s vocational marketing segment manager, takes us for a ride in a Peterbilt 567 dump truck powered by a PACCAR MX-13 engine, sporting air disc brakes and a Bendix advanced collision mitigation system. Sablar talks through the feature benefits and highlights the growing demand for advanced safety equipment in vocational segments.
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What’s no secret is the importance of trucking safety, and Volvo’s goal to reduce accidents across the globe.
Black curtains surround the room that's segmented by rolling privacy screens, blocking off the business end of a European Volvo truck (is it an FH? An electric? It's hard to tell.) This is the only area trucking journalists from North America are allowed in. The rest of the building, named Lundby, high-tech center for research and development at Volvo Trucks headquarters in Gothenburg, Sweden, is off-limits. Even several of the Gothenburg-based Volvo Trucks employees that are presenting haven't been allowed in this building before. But what we're here to talk about is anything but a secret.
With this expansion, the PrePass Safety Alliance says fleets with the PrePass app now have 20 percent more bypass sites nationwide.
The Knight, a 48-ft.-long detachable gooseneck lowboy with an overall capacity of 80,000 lbs., is now available form XL dealers.
From fleet cards to EVs and data, all work together to help save on costs.
Production will start later this summer, and Volvo expects customer deliveries to begin later this year.
In 2023, Dobbs Leasing achieved a 71% year-over-year increase in total vehicles in-serviced with PacLease, while adding three new locations.
Alternative fuels, connectivity, efficiency—there’s been plenty to report on from trucking trade shows, but which topics stuck out most?
Kenworth selected executives representing 480 dealerships for its Dealer Council, and named eight members for its Parts Council.
At a seasonally adjusted 17,100 units, March marks the first month since May 2023 for seasonally adjusted activity below 20,000 units.
