Category: Trucks

Ryder’s 2017 Top Technician Competition

Every year, Ryder System hosts a global competition for its corps of 5,900 maintenance technicians located in North American and the United Kingdom. Some 1,800 Ryder technicians competed in the regional round, whittling their numbers down to just six f…

Tricking out a tricked-out pickup

Alright, so this one isn’t likely to see any fleet or business use — but it could. Ford Motor Co. made up a specialty F-150 Raptor pickup meant to echo design cues of a Lockheed Martin F-22 fighter jet that was auctioned at the Experimental Aircraft Assn.’s (EAA) annual AirVenture Oshkosh conference in Oshkosh, WI.

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Tricking out a tricked-out pickup

Alright, so this one isn’t likely to see any fleet or business use — but it could. Ford Motor Co. made up a specialty F-150 Raptor pickup meant to echo design cues of a Lockheed Martin F-22 fighter jet that was auctioned at the Experimental Aircraft Assn.’s (EAA) annual AirVenture Oshkosh conference in Oshkosh, WI.

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Mitsubishi Fuso begins eCanter electric truck production

Short-series production run for the all-electric eCanter starts at the OEM’s Tramagal plant in Portugal.

The eCanter all-electric medium-duty truck designed by Mitsubishi Fuso Truck and Bus Corporation (MFTBC) is now starting what’s being terms “short-series” production at the OEM’s factory in Tramagal, Portugal, for the U.S. market.

MFTBC, a division of Daimler Trucks Asia, added that the Fuso eCanter is produced alongside its conventional Canter “light” medium-duty unit at the Tramagal plant. Only the electric-powertrain-specific components will be installed in specific boxes along the production line, the OEM pointed out.

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