HDT Presents Awards to Top 20 Product Winners
HDT Editor in Chief with two key executives from Eaton and Cummins: ohn Coll, VP Global Marketing – Vehicle Group, Eaton; Lori Thompson, VP Truck and Bus OEM Business, Cummins. Cummins and Eaton teamed up to create SmartAdvantage, an integrated powertrain that offers better fuel economy, lower preventive maintenance costs and total lifecycle cost improvements.
Dana is presented a Top 20 award for its Spicer AdvanTek 40, a 40,000-pound-capacity tandem axle using new gear sets, bearings and other components to save fuel, improve reliability, and reduce vehicle weight.
HDT Editor in Chief Deborah Lockridge with Dale Peay, left, and John Dennehy, center, of Espar, which won for its The Airtronic CNG heating system to help reduce idling in cold weather for vehicles fueled by compressed natural gas.
Heavy Duty Trucking Publisher David Moniz presents Top 20 award to J.J. Keller President Marne Keller-Krikava.
LinkeDrive founder and CEO, Jeff Baer, left, talks with HDT Publisher David Moniz, center, and Editor in Chief Deborah Lockridge, right.
Brian Mulshine, director, Service Performance & Technology for Navistar, accepts Top 20 award from Editor in Chief Deborah Lockridge. Navistar says its new OnCommand Connection remote diagnostics system is the first single remote diagnostics portal to use an open architecture system that works with fleets’ existing telematics providers.
Heavy Duty Trucking Publisher David Moniz, center, presents Top 20 award to Westport Innovations for its iCE Pack LNG Tank System.
Agility Fuel Systems earned a Top 20 for its compact, high-capacity compressed natural gas fuel system, offering up to a 500-mile range.
American Power Group earned a Top 20 for partnering with glider providers such as Ervin USA, Fitzgerald Glider Kits and the WheelTime Network to offer dual-fuel natural gas gliders.
Heavy Duty Trucking Publisher David Moniz, left, presents award to ATDynamics Founder and CEO Andrew Smith for the TrailerTail AutoDeploy system.
HDT Publisher David Moniz, left, presents Top 20 award to Peter Murray, general manager - LNG Vehicle Fueling Products for Chart Industries, which earned a Top 20 for its tank/fueling design that addressed some of the drawbacks of using liquefied natural gas for long-haul trucking.
Left to Right: Jim Michels, Business Communications Manager – Vehicle Group, Eaton; John Coll, VP Global Marketing – Vehicle Group, Eaton; Lori Thompson, VP Truck and Bus OEM Business, Cummins; Carol Lavergood, Director Marketing Communications, Engine, Cummins; Christy Nycz House, On Highway Marketing Communications Director for Cummins.
Joe Saccio, Telematics Sales & Marketing Manager at Daimler Trucks North America left, accepts Top 20 award from HDT Publisher David Moniz for its Detroit Connect telematics system, featuring the Detroit Connect On-Board Tablet.
HDT Publisher David Moniz, left, presents officials from eNow with a Top 20 award for its solar-powered idle reduction, refrigeration, liftgate and battery charging systems for the transportation industry.
FuelDefend USA earned a Top 20 for the Vehicle Protector DPF theft prevention system. Publisher David Moniz, left, presents the award to Russell Fowler and Dave Rogers, with the help of Editor in Chief Deborah Lockridge.
Bob Zirlin, director of marketing for Hadley Products, accepts the Top 20 award from Publisher David Moniz and Editor in Chief Deborah Lockridge. Hadley was honored for SmartValve, a multi-function height adjustment valve for tractor air suspensions that makes it easier and safer for drivers to connect tractor and trailer.
The J.J. Keller team won a Top 20 award for its Compliance Tablet, a simple, one-step option for making the transition to electronic logs.
LinkeDrive won an award for its PedalCoach app, which uses a smartphone or tablet to convert complex data from the engine and other areas into a simple graphic gauge interface that coaches drivers to stay in the “green zone” for fuel efficiency.
Maxwell Technologies’ Engine Start Module earned a Top 20 award for the way it uses ultracapacitor technology to help solve on-board electrical demands.
Emma Dahl, PeopleNet marketing specialist, accepts Top 20 award from HDT Publisher David Moniz. PeopleNet was honored for delivering engine reporting in diesel equivalent gallons that easily compares performance and forecasts savings for multi-fueled fleets.
HDT Publisher David Moniz, right, presents a Top 20 award to Peterson for its 7-inch round LED headlight.
From left, HDT Publisher David Moniz, Phillips' Industries Rob Phillips and Dave Phillips, and HDT Editor in Chief Deborah Lockridge. Phillips' Sta-Dry QCMS2 is designed to prevent the most common warranty complaint with 7-way tractor-to-trailer electrical connections.
Heavy Duty Trucking Publisher David Moniz, right, presents Top 20 award to XRS for the integrated mobile platform it created with Samsung.