Navistar announced it will provide service departments at all 700 International Truck and IC Bus locations with its Accelerator Write-Up, a mobile app that will expedite customers' service visits by streamlining the write-up and diagnostic process.
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Mercedes Benz Vans LLC is planning to roll out new commercial options and packages for its full-size Sprinter and mid-size Metris vans by the end of the year; options that are being lumped together in the main under a new moniker, the “Master Solutions” program. (All photos by Sean Kilcarr/Fleet Owner)
NORTH CHARLESTON, SC. By the end of 2016, Mercedes Benz Vans LLC plans to introduce a new line of commercial upfit packages crafted in partnership with various suppliers for its full-size Sprinter and mid-size Metris vans, grouped under the name “Master Solutions.”
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My first job out of college (1976) was working in the military defense industry at General Electric in Utica, NY. I was doing some electronics testing for a down-looking radar system to allow missiles to fly autonomously to a target. Some of that technology was used in the early 90's in a war we had where some may remember video of a bomb finding a chimney and going down it. A key to that technology was an a priori map of the terrain that allowed the radar to correlate what it was seeing live with what had previously been recorded by some other means.
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