The Heavy Duty Aftermarket Journal recognized it’s Top 5 aftermarket suppliers at the Las Vegas Heavy Duty Aftermarket Week event Monday. The winners include a hybrid power system maker and a smart tire inflation monitoring system for big trucks. Bergstrom and Kohler Power Systems joint hybrid power system (auxiliary power unit or APU) venture for [...]
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Green Truck Summit Announced by CALSTART-NTEA
January 29th, 2010 
Aaron Turpen CALSTART-NTEA have announced the 2010 Green Truck Summit, formerly held as the Clean Heavy Duty Vehicle Conference, will take place in St. Louis, Missouri March 9-12. This year’s summit is sponsored by International Trucks, Eaton Hybrid Power, and the United States EPA. The GTS coincides with the NTEA Convention and Work Truck Show 2010 at [...]
Tags: Cummins Brings on Eaton in SuperTruck Program
January 28th, 2010 Aaron Turpen The Department of Energy granted $115 million in funds as part of its SuperTruck program to improve long haul, Class 8 truck fuel efficiency by 50%. Cummins was the engine maker chosen to participate along with Daimler Trucks North America and Navistar. For its part, Cummins has chosen Eaton to provide a next-generation automatic transmission [...]
Volvo Trucks to Begin Testing of Methane-Diesel Engines
January 28th, 2010 Aaron Turpen Starting in February, Volvo Trucks will be conducting field testing of methane-diesel engines in commercial operations in cooperation with several Swedish customers. The trucks will be the Volvo FL and FE 7-liter models using Volvo’s Euro-5 diesel engines. Converted to gas operation, the trucks have special tanks added for the compressed natural gas (CNG or [...]
