Sustainability, technology take center stage at ATA MCE 2023
Battery electric, hydrogen fuel cell and diesel trucks lined the halls of the association’s fall show.
Mack Trucks cuts the ribbon on new Experience Center
We take a tour of the new facility and test out some trucks on the newly renovated test drive course.
Photo Gallery: Heavy Duty Aftermarket Week 2023
A pictorial walk-around of the show floor.
Photo Gallery: Mack Command Steer tackles tough quarry work
Deep within the Easton Quarry, about 30-minutes outside of Allentown, Penn., home of the Mack Experience Center, H&K Group and Mack Trucks hosted industry journalists on a true Mack Trucks experience as we got behind the wheel of a Mack Granite and Mack Anthem with Command Steer, an active steering system that adds an electric
Photo gallery: Walk through Navistar’s new San Antonio manufacturing plant
Navistar rolled out the red carpet to cut the Navistar-orange ribbon, announcing the opening of the truck manufacturer’s San Antonio Manufacturing Plant–a more than $250 million investment that broke ground in June 2020 on a nearly 1-million square-foot plant has the capacity to produce Class 6-8 vehicles. I had the chance to walk the line
Photo gallery: Hino Trucks national parts conference
Hino Trucks hosted several hundred dealers at its National Parts Conference this week in Las Vegas, and I had the cool opportunity to host live podcasts during the show with the Hino Trucks team, suppliers and dealers. The conversation spanned the gamut of industry talking points–from dealing with supply chain and service challenges to answering
Photo gallery: HDAW ’22
The Heavy Duty Aftermarket Week show floor held a few surprises. Sure there was the tried-and-true lineup of hard parts that solve fleet service problems, but there were also hints of the trucking industry aftermarket solutions to come. Examples ranged from electrified axles to increased e-commerce connectivity. One thing was certain, while aftermarket solutions keep
Photo gallery: Kenworth zero-emissions electric truck test drive
Kenworth’s battery powered electric trucks were lined up outside of the PACCAR Innovation Center, nestled in the middle of Silicon Valley, and were charged up, ready to roll. I was on hand to kick the tires (figuratively) and take a ride (literally) in the Class 8 T680E and medium-duty Kenworth K270E cabover. I also took
Behold! The Kenworth T680 Next Gen delivers the Capitol Christmas Tree (A photo gallery)
Hauling an 84-ft. White Fir from Northern California to Washington D.C. doesn’t happen overnight. The fine fir’s journey toward being the bright holiday light in the national’s capitol starts early (System Transport, the flatbed division of Trans-System Inc., headquartered in Cheney, Wash., was chosen as the hauler in June) and once underway, the press releases
Photo gallery: Take a tour of the PSI manufacturing floor
The last time we caught up with Pressure Systems International (PSI) during their annual event, it was 2019, they had just surpassed 1.5 million units in the field and COVID wasn’t a thing that most people in the world had ever heard about. Clearly, a lot has changed, but one thing has remained constant: PSI
ATA MCE 2021: The photo gallery
Packed with truck technology, pulsing with electrified energy, the ATA MCE 2021 show wraps up a second half of 2021 trade shows that aimed to make up for lost time in 2020. And the shows delivered. Where ACT Expo offered sustainability excitement and TMC’s Fall Meeting brought us back down to a productive reality, ATA
Photo gallery: TMC 2021
For the first time since February 2020, a veritable lifetime ago, the American Trucking Associations’ Technology and Maintenance Council (TMC) held its usual meeting and exposition, this time in the fall rather than in the winter and held in Cleveland, Ohio—right in Fleet Equipment‘s backyard. With that being the case, the crew at Fleet Equipment
