Freightliner New Cascadia ride along and interview

By Fleet Equipment Staff
Oct 3, 2016

Where do you even start talking about a truck re-imagined from the ground up? How about where the rubber meets the road? Daimler Trucks CEO Martin Daum went on the record to say that the 2018 New Cascadia with a GHG17 DD15 integrated Detroit powertrain improved fuel economy by 8%—that’s right, 8%—compared to the Classic Cascadia Evolution with a GHG14 DD15 integrated Detroit powertrain.

He also invited the press and 12 of the industry’s biggest fleets to look under the hood, crawl through the cab and take the New Cascadia for a drive.

So come along as Fleet Equipment puts you shotgun in the new truck and dives into the specs.

Navigating the EV charging market

Thoughts on future-proofing charging infrastructure installations and charger/EV compatibility.

By Jason Morgan
May 24, 2023

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It's still the wild west in the EV charging equipment segment. There's growing demand for infrastructure builds now that battery electric commercial vehicles are available and rolling large in short-route applications. While working with one's utility is an issue that's hard to speak to if you're not dealing with that same utility, vetting charging hardware vendors and planning infrastructure scalability is a topic that can be delved.