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TORONTO, Ont. -- Look through vehicle spec’ sheets for the lower weight classes on various OEM websites -- GMC, Ford, Isuzu, Hino and others – and you find the transmission described simply as, say, a six-speed automatic. That's just fine with a significant majority of medium-duty truck buyers. They don't even think about the transmission when choosing a truck. ...
TORONTO, Ont. -- In early 2021, German automotive supplier ZF Friedrichschafen AG will launch the PowerLine 8AP, an eight-speed torque-converter automatic transmission medium-duty and vocational applications with gross vehicle weights up to 26,000 kg (57,000 lb). ...
TORONTO, Ont. -- Picking favorites is not a task to be taken lightly. No matter who you include in a related list, someone will feel slighted because they were left behind. But as a new year comes upon us, it’s a tradition at Today’s Trucking to identify 10 new products that stood apart from the rest during a given year. ...
HAMILTON, Ont. -- Loblaw is looking skyward in the bid to electrify its private fleet, testing a trailer equipped with a rooftop solar array designed by Westhill Innovation. And if the prototype works as expected, the reefer will never sip so much as a drop of diesel. ...
MISSISSAUGA, Ont. – A Quebec-based startup believes it has a tool to tackle drowsy driving at night, using a dashboard-mounted system that exposes drivers to a modulating blue light. ...
It’s a situation many truck drivers have found themselves in: You’re in the middle of nowhere, eager to have a productive workday, when — BAM — you lose cellular connection. Given that cellular networks are far stronger in more densely […] ...
AYR, Ont. -- Trevor Jefferson had been a driver for Celadon Canada, which took on the Hyndman Transport name in 2015, for 12 years, and was thinking of making a change. The fleet's bankruptcy made it official. ...