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Cummins Buying Jacobs Vehicle Systems

Cummins buying Jacobs Vehicle Systems. Best known for the Jake Brake, today Jacobs also provides cylinder deactivation, start-and-stop and thermal management technologies. It’s a homecoming of sorts; in 1961, Jacobs introduced the first engine brake…

XPO Logistics

XPO Increasing Capacity

XPO Logistics, a provider of freight transportation services, has opened two less-than-truckload (LTL) terminals to increase customer service capacity in its North American network. In addition, the company increased production capacity at its trailer manufacturing…

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API Testing New Diesel Oil Categories

American Petroleum Institute’s lubricants group has established a New Category Development Team to launch the test-development phase of what will be a pair of new API diesel engine oil categories. …the service category will be known as PC-12.

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Brightstar Acquiring Novae Corp.

Brightstar Capital Partners has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Novae Corp. in partnership with the company’s founder and senior management team, the private equity firm reported Dec. 15. Steve Bermes, chief executive of Novae…

Daimler Trucks North America, Freightliner Cascadia

Headlights Prompt Daimler Recall

Three dozen fires resulting from improper installation of replacement headlamps is prompting Daimler Trucks North America (DTNA) to recall more than 72,000 Freightliner Cascadia Class 8 trucks across six model years. No injuries were reported…

Polar Sanitary 3-A Trailer

Polar Wins Safety Award

Polar Tank Trailer was recognized for excellence in workplace safety and health at the 2021 Virtual Minnesota Safety and Health Conference, held May 4-5. Polar Tank Trailer was one of 221 employers honored through the…

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Truck demand robust, data show

With new Class 8 truck orders from April having essentially filled the backlog for the remainder of 2021 in North America, and with 2022 order books not yet opened, it’s no surprise that order numbers…

TuSimple Autonomous Truck

Orders Rising For Driver-Less Trucks

TuSimple has received 6,775 reservations for a new line of SAE Level 4 International LT Series autonomous trucks. The trucks will be equipped with TuSimple’s advanced autonomous driving system and manufactured by Navistar beginning in…

Hub building higher trailers, Hub Group, which developed a special 14-foot-high trailer designed for a dedicated customer based in California

Hub Building Higher Trailers

Trailers are 13 feet, 6 inches high, right? That’s not always the case for Oakbrook, Ill.-based Hub Group, which developed a special 14-foot-high trailer designed for a dedicated customer based in California. Many western states allow 14-foot-high…

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