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Rush names RigMaster Power its preferred power supplier

Rush Enterprises selected RigMaster Power International to be its preferred supplier for auxiliary power units, the companies recently announced.

Rush Truck Centers’ dealerships will be both sales and service centers for all RigMaster Power’s product line. Representatives of Rush and RigMaster are now training and shipping orders to a select group of initial stores.

Founded in 1993, Toronto-based RigMaster Power International produces anti-idling solutions for the transportation market.

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Lytx to Launch Expanded Video Services

Lytx Inc., provider of the DriveCam video-based safety system, is preparing to launch an added service designed to eliminate operational blind spots through expanded use of onboard video.

Tenneco seeks to grow its truck business

Though it represents just 11% of its overall revenue now, the commercial truck and off-highway markets offers the best potential for future growth, according to Tenneco’s new CEO.

ATLANTA. Brian Kessler, who took over as CEO for Tenneco back in May, said during a press event here at the inaugural North American Commercial Vehicle (NACV) show that he believes the company’s future growth through 2030 is going to be strongly tied to the commercial truck and off-road highway markets.

“Big trucks are a little more intriguing for us,” Kessler said. “Over the next 15 years more diesel engines will come under regulation than are currently under regulation.”

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Cummins seeks to capitalize on future trucking trends

“Dependability” and “innovation” are becoming the engine maker’s watchwords as it prepares to launch a new 15-liter heavy-duty engine in 2022.

ATLANTA. There are three main “disruptions” occurring within the trucking industry today, according to a presentation by Srikanth Padmanabhan, president of the engine business at Cummins Inc., here at the inaugural North American Commercial Vehicle (NACV) show: energy diversity, connectivity, and automation.

And he believes Cummins must deliver “diversified, dependable technology solutions to our customers at the right time” in all three of those areas – even if they are not directly engine-related.

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