Peterbilt announces dealer certification program
Peterbilt Motors Co. announced the launch of the Platinum Service Center program at the North American Commercial Vehicle show in Atlanta. The certification program scores each dealership location based on several key objective performance factors including world-class facilities and driver’s lounges, utilization of PACCAR Solutions service management, expanded hours of service, excellent parts availability, certified
Peterbilt delivers first medium-duty electric model 220EV to Frito-Lay
Six battery electric model 220EV medium-duty trucks will be used by PepsiCo’s Frito-Lay division as part of its Modesto, California, Zero- and Near Zero-Emission Freight Facility Project.
NACFE Run on Less averages 8.3 MPG in regional applications
The trucks and drivers in Run on Less Regional, a freight efficiency demonstration conducted by the North American Council for Freight Efficiency (NACFE), hit an average 8.3 miles per gallon (28 L/100km) for the three-week event, an improvement over the national average of 6.0 MPG, NACFE reported. Click here to read all of our NACV
What are your trucking data rights?
Data-driven solutions will soon predict when components on your trucks will fail based on your spec, duty cycle, application, driver behavior, service practices and more. These aren’t general predictions for all of the trucks on the road; they’re predictions tailored for you.
Peterbilt helps raise money for United Way of Denton County in annual parade
Peterbilt celebrated its annual United Way campaign with the fourth annual Pride and Class Parade in the downtown Denton, Texas square.
Watch: Peterbilt 579 Epiq Ultraloft Blackout exterior package walk-around
Fleet Equipment had the chance to walk through the Peterbilt 579 Epiq package Ultraloft decked out with its Blackout exterior package at the PACCAR engine plant in Columbus, Miss.
Watch: Peterbilt 567 ride-along
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
Photo gallery: Inside the PACCAR engine plant
The Columbus, Miss., PACCAR engine manufacturing plant opened in 2010 and began producing 25 MX-13 engines a day. Today, the plant churns out approximately 180 engines a day, with the bulk of the builds made up by the MX-13, and approximately 25 MX-11 engines per day. Fleet Equipment went behind the scenes, camera in hand,
Making upfitting easier in medium-duty applications
Trucking companies are working to improve the total cost of ownership by focusing on making upfitting easier for truck equipment manufacturers.
Sleeper supremacy: A focus on the customer has led to more fleets spec’ing large, decked-out sleepers
Across the business world, companies are becoming more and more interested in emulating the success of Amazon. It’s a model that many truck OEMs are now following as they sharpen their focus on fleet customers, learn what equipment will meet the customers’ needs and deliver the products that they want.
Peterbilt adds fifth technician training campus
Peterbilt Motors Company is opening of the company’s fifth Peterbilt Technician Institute (PTI) campus in Rancho Cucamonga, California.
Decker Truck Line celebrates delivery of 2,500th Peterbilt
Peterbilt Motors Company, along with Decker Truck Line, Inc., celebrated a relationship spanning six decades with the delivery of the transportation company’s 2,500th Peterbilt truck purchased from JX Truck Center.
