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Pickup Trucks & Vans

GM’s Transition to an All-Electric Future Begins with an Off-Road Supertruck and Commercial Delivery EV

General Motors Company

Delivery of the first BrightDrop EV600s and GMC Hummer EV Pickup highlights the versatility of GM’s Ultium Platform that will be the key driver of GM’s 30 new EV launches planned for the next three years.

The first 2022 GMC Hummer EV Pickup Edition 1 exits Factory ZERO in Detroit and Hamtramck, MI. VIN 001 was auctioned in March 2021 at the Barrett-Jackson Scottsdale auction for $2.5 million to benefit the Tunnel to Towers Foundation.

Lubricating Equipment

Know Your Options When Spec'ing Mobile Lube Systems

Sage Oil Vac Inc.

Performing regular preventive maintenance and oil changes is critical to maximizing the life of your equipment fleet.

If you perform frequent oil changes in the field for small equipment, you may want to add mobile lube equipment to an existing service truck using customizable systems like the Sage Oil Vac Lubebuilder.

Fleet Maintenance

STEMCO Trifecta Pre-Adjusted Hub Assembly

Combines the company's wheel end technologies with the Webb hub in a single, pre-adjusted assembly that ensures a faster, more secure installation.

Tn Trifecta Merged Layers

Earthmoving Equipment

Large Machinery OEMs Explore Hydrogen Future

High power density requirements and long run times make hydrogen an attractive source to eliminate carbon production.

cellcentric's twin fuel-cell system for heavy-duty applications.

Heavy Trucks: Class 7 & 8

Peterbilt Deploying Augmented Reality Tool for Dealer Service Technicians

Peterbilt Motors Co. - Paccar

A proprietary software designed to innovate dealer service and improve customer uptime, ARTech utilizes 3-dimensional and augmented reality views of chassis-specific Peterbilt trucks.

The Peterbilt ARTech augmented reality tool is giving technician’s quick access to the information they need when they need it the most—right next to the truck in the service bay.

Pickup Trucks & Vans

Ford Promotes Vehicle-to-Vehicle Charging

Ford Motor Company

The all-electric 2022 Ford F-150 Lightning and the F-150 PowerBoost Hybrid have the ability to let customers “share” range with other electric vehicle owners, allowing them to charge or top off a friend’s vehicle battery.

When connected to an F-150 Lightning or F-150 PowerBoost Hybrid with the optional 9.6 or 7.2 kilowatt Pro Power Onboard, the Ford Mobile Power Cord charger can deliver Level-2 charging that’s estimated to add an average range of 10 miles per charging hour to a Ford E-Transit low-roof cargo van.

Truck Accessories

In-cab Technology Drives Safety

Discourage distracted driving and monitor driver behavior with driver apps and dash cam technology.

While the devices can help us a lot, they’re leading to some very unfortunate unintended consequences. For example, 40% of commercial driving accidents are being caused by device distraction.

Lighting, Alarms

Grote Industries Expands BriteZone LED Work Lamp Family

Grote Industries Inc.

This update will broaden the current offering, adding eight new part numbers to the lineup to fit a range of applications.

Grote BriteZone

Utility Vehicles

Bobcat UW53 Toolcat Utility Work Machine

All-new model comes with a variety of enhancements both inside and outside the cab, plus offers enhanced attachment versatility.

Bobcat Uw53 Bucket Dsc01367 21m1

Heavy Trucks: Class 7 & 8

FTR Reports Preliminary North American Class 8 Net Orders for October at 24,500

Class 8 orders have stayed within the 23,000 to 28,000-unit range for five of the last six months as OEMs deal with production issues.

Ftr

Heavy Trucks: Class 7 & 8

Tips to Keep Vocational Trucks Rolling

As truck fleets age, driver inspections and preventative maintenance will keep you in motion.

Establish a preventive maintenance schedule and modify it if necessary. If your maintenance inspections are finding issues, this is telling you that you are not seeing the vehicles often enough or you are using cut-off thresholds that are too close to the limits.

International MV Series Medium Duty Truck Designed with Upfitting in Mind

Navistar International Corporation

Highlights of the new International MV Series medium-duty vehicle, including a completely redesigned front end, improved maintenance schedules plus numerous body builder advancements to make upfitting easier.

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