Category: Trucks

A walk thru ATA MC&E 2017

The American Trucking Associations (ATA) annual Management Conference & Exhibition (MC&E) for 2017 took place at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, FL, and featured 163 exhibitors showing off everything from Class 8 tractors, engin…

A walk thru ATA MC&E 2017

The American Trucking Associations (ATA) annual Management Conference & Exhibition (MC&E) for 2017 took place at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, FL, and featured 163 exhibitors showing off everything from Class 8 tractors, engin…

A walk thru ATA MC&E 2017

The American Trucking Associations (ATA) annual Management Conference & Exhibition (MC&E) for 2017 took place at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, FL, and featured 163 exhibitors showing off everything from Class 8 tractors, engin…

Endurant automated transmission: A league of its own

Some 42 months before the new Endurant automated transmission’s launch, the program engineers locked themselves in an abandoned warehouse to start completely from scratch. Well, not quite, but close — and it was about that consummate a ground-up effort. Here are some scenes and impressions from testing out the transmission at Eaton Proving Grounds in Marshall, MI.

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Endurant automated transmission: A league of its own

Some 42 months before the new Endurant automated transmission’s launch, the program engineers locked themselves in an abandoned warehouse to start completely from scratch. Well, not quite, but close — and it was about that consummate a ground-up effort. Here are some scenes and impressions from testing out the transmission at Eaton Proving Grounds in Marshall, MI.

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New CV report from Wards

The report examines statistics on trucks in service today and breaks out the data across various operating categories.

Sources for truck and trailer sales are plentiful, b…

New CV report from Wards

The report examines statistics on trucks in service today and breaks out the data across various operating categories.

Sources for truck and trailer sales are plentiful, b…

From mechanical to smart devices: Trucking’s one-way street

Eaton-Cummins joint venture’s new Endurant automated transmission follows industry’s biggest trend

MARSHALL, MI. The all-new flagship heavy duty transmission that’s come from Eaton Cummins Automated Transmission Technologies, the Endurant, is “like what you’re seeing across our industry — mechanical devices are all becoming smart devices.” And in more ways than one, that transition in trucking to smart, connected devices that once upon a time were mechanical things is a one-way, no-turning-back proposition.

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