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Aluminum body and bed, redesigned steel frame, and a small but lively V-6 are the new truck’s highpoints.
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This is a driver’s view of the 2015 aluminum F-150 with the new 2.7-liter EcoBoost V-6, blasting off the start line and quickly weaving through the slalom course.
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The T680 Advantage is the most aerodynamic truck Kenworth has ever produced. But a lot of the fuel savings comes from the powertrain. Jim Park shakes down the Paccar MX multi-torque engine and Eaton's Advantage transmissions, responsible for more than half of the truck's fuel economy gains. View more: Part 1: The Walkaround. Part 2: Overview
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You can put all the techology you want on a truck, but someone still has to drive the thing. Kenworth T680 exceeds expectations in all respects. Jim Park's three-part Ultimate Test Drive video series features a look at the T680's driving environment and some of the technology designed to make the driver's life better. View more: Part 1: The Walkaround.
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Precise concrete placement is a traditional feature for this front-discharge mixer, but relatively new is natural gas power.
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Peterbilt's new Class 6/7 COE is ideally suited for city P&D as well as landscaping applications.
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This 10-speed brings continuous power to a crowded field of smooth self-shifters.
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Ford feels it has bragging rights and showed why at a ride-and-drive event for trade-press reporters this week in West Virginia. A first-person report from Senior Editor Tom Berg.
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Combine the frame from the vocational VHD with the comfort of the VN highway tractor and you have something strong for long hauls.
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Introduced last year, Volvo’s VNX heavy haul tractor combines the frame and high stance of the vocational VHD with the highway comfort of the VNL. The cab is outfitted like a VN, so drivers are well housed for runs longer than what the VHD might be dispatched on. The VNX is rated at up to 200,000 pounds GCW, but the one recently driven by Senior Editor Tom Berg was capped at 125,000 because of its transmission, the I-Shift automated mechanical, with which application engineers are being careful in approving. The full road test article will appear in the June issue of Heavy Duty Trucking and will be posted on TruckingInfo.com shortly after.
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