Off-Highway Trucks

Mack, Omnitracs to Expand Truck Fleet Management Options →

Mack Trucks has entered into a memorandum of understanding with Omnitracs LLC to develop future service options for Mack Fleet Management Services. The additional options will expand Mack’s fleet management offerings and provide customers with more choices to boost safety and lower costs through improved operational performance. Omnitracs, a provider of fleet management, routing and predictive analytics solutions for the transportation industry, enables customers to solve common fleet problems and achieve their business objectives through intuitive technologies, according to the company. Click for more...

Veteran Trucker Calls I-95 ’Terrible’ →

NEW LONDON, Conn. (AP) - A little after 7 a.m. on a gray Wednesday in March, the red cab of the L.R. Hawthorne & Son 18-wheeler chugs away from a rest stop near Exit 13 on the northbound side of Interstate 95. ”Well, I’m L.R. Hawthorne and my father’s the son,’ says Lee Hawthorne, 60, of Enfield. He’s named after his grandfather, who founded the trucking company. A white-bearded, bespectacled man with a husky voice, Hawthorne has lived the better part of his life on the road, at one point overseeing 15 trucks out of two locations for the family trucking company. Click for more...

Driverless Trucks Protect People-Filled Work Zones →

BETHLEHEM, Pa. (AP) - Roving construction crews - the kind you see blacktopping a road, painting lines, inspecting a bridge or installing a traffic signal - are often protected from oncoming traffic by a specialized truck outfitted with a crash barrier. The crash trucks, fitted with a device called a truck-mounted attenuator, have been credited with saving lives. But the workers who drive them are inevitably placed in harm’s way, ”literally waiting to be struck,’ said Robert Roy, president of Royal Truck & Equipment Inc. Click for more...

New Aluminum Landscape Dump Body From Crysteel →

From Construction Equipment Guide... The new aluminum landscape body from Crysteel combines the strength and durability of the Crysteel landscape body with the lightweight efficiency of aluminum construction including increased payload capacity, corrosion resistance and lower maintenance costs. The aluminum landscape body is ideal for contractors in the landscape industry, refuse/waste industry and recycling industry, according to the manufacturer. Click for more...

Nuss Hosts 5th Annual Truck Show →

Approximately 100 people attended Nuss Truck & Equipment’s 5th Annual Antique Truck Show in Rochester, Minn., on July 18. All proceeds, which amounted to $1,200, were donated to the Ronald McDonald House of Rochester, Minn. In addition to music provided by the Turkey River All Stars Band, lunch was served on an antique firetruck grill. Click for more...

Thief Absconds With Heavy Equipment in Broad Daylight →

The South Strand News is reporting that police in South Carolina have produced a photo of a pickup truck they think may have been used in the theft. At about 4:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 11, the Georgetown Police Department released an image of an pickup truck that was towing a Bobcat Skid Steer as it traveled down a city street. On Aug. 7, the GPD asked for the public’s help in locating the Bobcat, which is owned by the city and allegedly taken from a vacant lot near Bonds Street. Click for more...

Long-Haul Truck-Driving Teens: A Scary Proposal →

One provision in the current surface transportation bill would drop the interstate commercial truck driving age to 18 from 21. It is one of those issues with two appealing sides. In the end, though, the idea doesn’t pass muster. Young men and women 18, 19 and 20 years old fight wars, marry, operate heavy construction equipment, and start online companies that make them millionaires. They are never more physically vigorous than they are at that age and are fully capable of wrestling a big rig for hours on end. Click for more...

John Deere E-Series Articulated Dump Trucks Feature a Load of New Updates →

From Construction Equipment Guide... Bolstered with big updates, the new 370E, 410E and 460E articulated dump truck (ADTs) are designed to keep materials moving and profits flowing. The three models are highlighted by an EPA Final Tier IV (FT4)/EU Stage IV John Deere PowerTech diesel engine and a pressurized Deere-designed cab — both of which combine to boost productivity and uptime, while minimizing daily operating costs. “The new E-Series articulated dump trucks are the result of our most important asset, our customers,” said Mark Shea, ADT product consultant, John Deere Construction & Forestry. Click for more...

Caterpillar to Design, Build Its Vocational Trucks →

Caterpillar Inc. today announced it will begin independently designing and manufacturing its vocational truck product family at its plant in Victoria, Texas. The plant, which opened in 2012, currently produces hydraulic excavators. “The on-highway vocational truck product family is important to our product line; customers like our trucks and want to include them in their fleets in a variety of heavy duty applications such as dump trucks, mixers, haulers or one of the other configurations we offer ,” said Chris Chadwick, Caterpillar’s director of the Global On-Highway Truck Group. Click for more...

Interstate Bridge Destroyed in Fiery Truck Crash →

The website Truck Driving Jobs is reporting that a tanker truck carrying 8,000 gallons of ethanol near Columbus, Ohio crashed and overturned under the eastbound I-70 bridge, causing massive damage to the bridge itself. According to the district deputy fire chief, the damage to the steel and concrete is so significant that he expects the bridge to be closed for several weeks. Fire battalion chief, Tracy Smith, explains that the ethanol caused the blaze to be so bad that the crews just had to let it go. Click for more...

Construction Flagger Struck and Killed by Truck in Wyoming →

ELK MOUNTAIN, Wyo. (AP) - A flagger has been struck and killed by a truck in a construction zone on Interstate 80 in southern Wyoming. The accident occurred about 5:50 p.m. Thursday about 15 miles west of Elk Mountain. The Wyoming Highway Patrol identified the victim as 44-year-old Shelly Yoho, of Rawlins. The patrol says Yoho was flagging traffic in the construction zone when a truck pulling two trailers drifted onto the shoulder, hit a guardrail and then hit Yoho. Click for more...

FBI Investigating Liebherr Stolen Truck Designs Lawsuit →

The Daily Press is reporting that the FBI is looking into a case in which a manufacturer is accusing several of its former workers of stealing designs for a huge mining dump truck for copycat truck production in China. A lawsuit brought by Liebherr Mining & Construction Equipment — a Swiss company that runs a mining truck factory in Newport News, Virginia — has been strictly a civil proceeding. Click for more...

Isuzu Delivers 500,000th Isuzu-Built Truck in North America →

Isuzu Commercial Truck of America Inc. has delivered the 500,000th Isuzu-built truck since the Isuzu brand entered the North American market in 1984. The N-Series truck was sold to Farmers Home Furniture in Dublin, Ga. The unit marked the 235th Isuzu truck the home-furnishings retailer has purchased. “We are very proud that a half a million Isuzu-built trucks have been sold over the last 31 years,” said Shaun Skinner, executive vice president and general manager of Isuzu Commercial Truck of America. Click for more...

Illinois Truck Fleet Owner Sentenced in Double-Brokering Scheme →

Trucking News Online is reporting that Dragan Simovski, who operated Freedom Transportation Inc., in Illinois, was sentenced earlier this month in U.S. District Court in Chicago to 36 months incarceration, 36 months supervised release, and was ordered to pay $532,000 restitution in connection with an illegal double-brokering scheme. According to the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Office of Inspector General, Simovski pleaded guilty to wire fraud in connection with the scheme. Click for more...

Newest CAT Truck, the CT680, Delivers Class-Leading Combination of Durability, Comfort and Style →

From Construction Equipment Guide... The Cat Vocational Truck line continues to grow to meet customer needs with the addition of the CT680, a Class 8 set-forward-axle model built to tackle today’s most demanding jobs while setting new standards for comfort and style, according to the company. The third vocational truck offered by Caterpillar, the CT680 features a rugged exterior, attractive automotive appearance, spacious and ergonomic cab, and vocational-specific engine and transmission. Click for more...

Ditch Witch FXT60 Truck Vac Designed for Large Cleanups →

From Construction Equipment Guide... The Ditch Witch FXT60 truck vacuum excavator is a versatile machine with the power to perform a wide variety of cleanup tasks, even in difficult-to-access locations, according to the manufacturer. The FXT60 is a powerful vacuum excavator available on a Class 6 or 7 single-axle or Class 8 tandem-axle truck. An FXT60 configured with a tandem rear-axle truck offers maximum payload and towing capacity. Click for more...

Two Construction Workers Struck by Lightning Bolt →

BONITA SPRINGS, Fla. (AP) - Two construction workers were injured, one seriously, after being stuck by a bolt of lightning in Bonita Springs. The News-Press of Fort Myers ( http://newspr.es/1EFtGTW ) reports four brothers were working on the roof of a home Wednesday afternoon. D. Peck Roofing owner Dave Peck says the men were working on the job site when the lightning struck. The bolt hit them just before they started to climb down a ladder after hearing thunder. Click for more...

Freightliner Trucks Hardest Working Cities Program Launched →

Vocational truck operators provide essential services that help revitalize communities, and Freightliner Trucks believes it’s time to celebrate these accomplishments. During an event at the 2015 NTEA Work Truck Show, the company announced the Freightliner Trucks Hardest Working Cities program to recognize the role vocational trucks, and the men and women who operate them, play in stimulating economies across the United States and Canada. Click for more...

Construction Worker Dies While Trying to Free Cement Truck →

SCHUYLER, Neb. (AP) - Authorities say a construction worker died Saturday in northeast Nebraska while trying to free a cement truck. The Colfax County Attorney’s office told the Columbus Telegram ( http://bit.ly/1FCoMx3 ) that 26-year-old Craig Anderson of Columbus died Saturday around 8 a.m. while working south of Schuyler. A cement truck got stuck near Lake Socorro, which is just west of Highway 15. Click for more...

New C Series Articulated Trucks Increase Profit Potential →

The Cat 735C, 740C EJ and 745C articulated trucks build on the performance, reliability and durability of their B Series predecessors with significant new features. These include engines that meet U.S. EPA Tier IV Final/EU Stage IV emission standards, new transmissions with expanded electronic control, automatic traction control, automatic retarder control, hill assist and waiting brake systems, and an optional payload weighing system — all aimed at delivering lower costs per ton by reducing cycle times, saving fuel and easing the operator’s work load. Click for more...

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