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Deep Dive: Western Star 47X
It is coming soon: The Western Star 47X! This truck touts many of the best qualities of the 49X by Western Star, along with features designed for concrete mixers and other vocational trucks. It’s made to haul lightweight equipment while complying with bridge laws. Discover some of the most impressive features of the Western Star [...]
Detroit Adds New Features to Suite of Safety Systems
Daimler Trucks North America is rolling out new safety features for their Detroit Assurance safety suite. These three features build upon software and hardware already present in their Detroit Diesel-powered trucks and are designed to decrease driver fatigue and avoid situations that can lead to accidents. These new safety features are available on new Freightliner [...]
Freightliner offering updated this year
Freightliner Updates Safety and Comfort Features This year, Work Truck Week went virtual! Freightliner announced a collection of exciting interior and exterior upgrades including safety enhancements in its vocational trucks. New Seating Means Increased Driver Safety Rolltek seating will be an option on the Freightliner M2 in the second quarter of 2022. Not only does […]
DTNA Introduces Detroit ePowertrain
Daimler Trucks North America (DTNA) announced their Detroit ePowertrain will power the upcoming Freightliner eCascadia and eM2 This is part of Daimler’s uniform basic architecture that will be used for battery-electric vehicles built and sold around the world. By using shared components, economies of scale should reduce the price of these vehicles. The company also [...]
December Truck Orders Close 2020 With a Bang
New truck orders collapsed during the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, but orders of Class 5 through 8 trucks bounced back at the end of the year, nearly breaking sales records. Preliminary North American Class 8 sales numbers from FTR and ACT Research estimate between 51,000 and 52,000 trucks were sold in December. This is [...]
Trucking After the Pandemic: Lessons from Homebuilders
The COVID-19 pandemic of 2020 has highlighted the resilience of the human spirit, but it has also shined a spotlight on many of the vulnerabilities hidden beneath the surface of various industries across the planet. Trucking, which has suffered its own setbacks in recent years due to changing regulations and driver shortages, has been affected [...]
Distracted Driving in Trucking
DISTRACTED DRIVING IS A PROBLEM THAT SEEMS TO HAVE ONLY BEEN MADE WORSE WITH THE INTRODUCTION OF SMARTPHONES AND OTHER MOBILE DEVICES. EACH YEAR, DISTRACTED DRIVERS CONTRIBUTE TO THOUSANDS OF DEATHS ON THE NATION’S HIGHWAYS, AND EVEN TRUCKING PROFESSIONALS ARE NOT IMMUNE TO THE DANGERS OF DISTRACTED DRIVING. Currently, one of the biggest problems facing [...]
The Next Western Star: The All-new 49X
The All-New 49X LONG LIVE TOUGH Western Star trucks have always been built to deliver more. More durability, more dependability and more value. And with the all-new 49X, Western Star have taken that commitment even farther. This is a truck that breaks new ground both on the jobsite and in how the job gets done. It [...]
