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Volvo "NH" conventionals (bonnetted) and "FH" COE's
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Car & Driver / August 14, 2020
Ford is donating 1.5 million masks to the state of Michigan as part of the governor's new MI Mask Aid program, which will see a total of 4 million face masks distributed to citizens as another way to keep the coronavirus under something resembling control in the state.
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer announced the new MI Mask Aid program during a press conference Friday morning, saying that the masks will be available to low-income residents, senior citizens, and schools. The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) will assist with mask distribution. So far, Michigan has seen 90,392 COVID-19 cases and 6289 deaths from the disease.
Ford CEO Jim Hackett spoke at the press conference, saying that the automaker has produced over 72 million pieces "for lifesaving support" during the COVID-19 crisis, not counting the 1.5 million masks it is donating to MI Mask Aid. A million and a half face masks is about one week's worth of production for the automaker, which shifted to making personal protection equipment (PPE) after COVID-19 changed the American economic and personal landscape in March.
Ford says the 54 million face masks it has made so far have all been used internally by workers—until now. "We were able to make this donation because we have a surplus of masks from continued production to cover our workforce," Ford said.
If Ford continues to make more than it needs for its employees, other states could benefit from the extra production. "We recognize there are many at-risk communities that have a growing need for PPE, such as masks," Ford said. "We're connecting with our local and national nonprofit partners to determine the best way to address this urgent problem."
Other automakers are assisting with PPE production as the coronavirus continues to ravage the U.S. Toyota, for example, announced this week that it has partnered with the safety equipment company Bullard to increase that company's ability to produce face shields, respirators and hoods at its Kentucky facility, but Toyota production lines were not converted to build Bullard products. Instead, Toyota helped Bullard figure out how to apply the Toyota Production System to its own production facilities. The result? Doubled production capacity for hoods and respirators and a 700-percent increase in production of face shields between March and April.
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6 hours ago, mrsmackpaul said:
Does Kenworth still make normal COE truck for the US market ?
If so, I wonder why they never used the cab
Australia still have a K200 I think it is
https://www.kenworth.com.au/trucks/k200/
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Paul, in the states Paccar sells the DAF "LF" rigid, assembled at the Paccar Mexico plant and rebadged as Kenworth and Peterbilt.
And Peterbilt alone has a low cab forward refuse chassis, the Model 520, which Kenworth doesn't get much to the anger of Kenworth dealers.
So in terms of a normal COE, only the global market K200 is left. Superb truck.
But of course DAF is Paccar's Dutch subsidiary, and they offer the new CF and XF, normal COE's which are excellent.
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Kenworth retiring K500 severe-service truck after 14 years
Alan Adler, Freight Waves / August 13, 2020
Kenworth Truck Co. is retiring its K500 severe-service off-highway truck after 14 years. The export-only truck was sold mostly to oil and gas exploration and mining customers in Asia, Russia and Africa.
PACCAR built just 283 of the vertical front, “flat face” K500 models in its plant in Renton, Washington.
Sintagma Holding purchased the last Kenworth K500 cabover for a gold mining operation of the Mining Society of Chitotolo (Sociedade Mineira do Chitotolo) in Luanda, Angola. The first K500 order in 2006 went to Karamay in China as part of a total order of eight K500s.
“The Kenworth K500 cabover has been a stellar truck model, and provided excellent performance and reliability for our customers worldwide,” Laura Bloch, Kenworth assistant general manager for sales and marketing, said in a statement.
The K500 uses a combination of the Kenworth C500 drivetrain with a modern cab-over-engine semi-hood. The cab sits forward of the front axle to improve job site visibility with more space than conventional models.
Available in a variety of configurations, including 6×4, 6×6, 8×8 and 10×10, the shorter, more maneuverable K500 designed for on-and-off highway use gained popularity with customers, Kenworth said.
The Kenworth K500 features a Cummins 525 horsepower engine with 1,650 pound-feet of torque and an Allison 4700RDS 7-speed transmission. It also incorporates AxleTech tandem rear axles rated at 100,000 pounds with a 9.59 rear axle ratio. The front axle is a new Meritor front drive axle rated at 32,000 pounds with a 9.66 axle ratio.
Kenworth still offers the 963 and C500 models in oilfields overseas. The C500 also is available in the U.S. and Canada. No replacement cabover is planned at this time, Parietti said.
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1 hour ago, david wild said:
Should have put that cab on a smaller chassis and sold as a road tractor, would be a good truck just to bad US truck drivers believe their penis gets bigger the longer the hood ?
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Heavy Duty Trucking (HDT) / August 12, 2020
Ending an era that lasted 14 years, the final Kenworth K500 cabover was completed in mid-August at its assembly plant in Renton, Washington. The K500 was primarily popular with the OEM’s oil and gas exploration customers.
A combination of the Kenworth C500 drivetrain with a modern COE cab, the K500 was a shorter, more maneuverable truck with off-highway characteristics and featured a variety of configurations: 6x4, 6x6, 8x8, and 10x10.
Sintagma Holding purchased the last K500, which will be used by the Mining Society of Chitotolo in Luanda, Angola, in a gold mining operation. The first K500 order was in 2006 and went to Karamay, China, as part of a total order of eight K500s.
“The Kenworth K500 cabover has been a stellar truck model and provided excellent performance and reliability for our customers worldwide,” said Laura Bloch, Kenworth’s assistant general manager for sales and marketing.
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Our favorite day of the week, #ThrowbackThursday! Here is a piece of Autocar Diesel #DumpTruck history!
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31 minutes ago, bbigrig said:
Incorrect. The 60 series Detroit was never available in the MH.
The older 2 stroke Detroits were available in the MH chassis.6V92 as an example.
Only the CL643 was ever available with a factory installed series 60 12.7L.
I actually was involved in the sale of some CL643's.
On the MH fitment of the Series 60, you are correct (it's been years ago). In fact, by 1988 we only offered CAT and Cummins as vendor engine options in the MH.
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17 minutes ago, kt_Engineer said:
https://www.waste360.com/trucks/behind-wheel-look-macks-lr-electric-truck-dsny
Volvo is also partnering on LIGHTS (Low Impact Green Heavy Transportation Solutions) California initiative for Drayage and other applications
https://www.greencarcongress.com/2020/06/20200619-volvo.html
https://www.volvotrucks.us/news-and-stories/press-releases/2020/february/all-electric-vnr-models/
The electric LIGHTS trucks are Volvo tech from Europe.
The DSNY trucks use Volvo tech, not Wright Speed tech which features a micro-turbine range extender.
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This development begs the question of what happened to the Wright Speed-powered Volvo-Mack LR refuse project? Did Volvo decide to ignore it and run with their in-house tech? Ian Wright is sharp.
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Nikola gets 2,500 unit electric garbage truck order
MarketWatch / August 10, 2020
Shares of Nikola shot up 14% in premarket trading Monday, after the electric truck maker secured an order to maker at least 2,500 electric garbage trucks for Republic Services for an undisclosed amount.
Nikola said it expects to begin testing the trucks in early 2022, with full production deliveries in 2023.
According to a report in The Wall Street Journal, the battery-powered trucks Nikola will make can travel 150 miles on a charge.
Although the price of the trucks in the Republic Services order isn't disclosed, Founder Trevor Milton told the WSJ that the company is committed to a price tag under $500,000 per vehicle, which is the going rate for electric garbage trucks currently sold by Nikola's competitors.
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Note the Volkswagen Amarok pickup service truck.
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Heavy Duty Trucking (HDT) / August 6, 2020
Cummins recently received two awards from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy for $6.5 million.
The awards are for Cummins’ continued work on fuel cell powertrain solutions for heavy-duty applications for on-highway tractor-trailers and buses.
As project lead of the DOE’s H2@Scale initiative, Cummins is working with a number of public and private partners to develop affordable hydrogen production, storage, distribution, and use.
“Programs like H2@Scale are essential to gain the scale and investment needed that will lead to faster adoption of hydrogen fuel cell technologies,” said Amy Davis, president of New Power at Cummins. “The work we are doing with the DOE and our partners will help improve cost and operational performance of hydrogen fuel cell technologies to achieve greater parity with other available power solutions.”
The first award of approximately $3.5 million will be used towards the development of an integrated fuel cell electric powertrain for heavy-duty trucks and transit buses, one that is highly manufacturable and scalable with a proven range of 300 miles or more and improved fuel economy over current heavy-duty trucks and transit buses. The project also entails achieving, meeting, or exceeding conventional diesel powertrain performance requirements and reducing the upfront capital costs by 35%.
The second award for $3 million is to develop and validate a high pressure, modular, 100 kW proton exchange membrane fuel cell stack and system to power heavy-duty applications of this technology, optimizing the fuel cell stack for efficiency, power density, space, and cost.
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On 8/7/2020 at 12:50 PM, Brandt said:
I have seen some older Macks with Detroit 92/71 series engines and Cummins Big and Small Cam engines in them. Once the engines went electronic did Mack use other than Mack engines?? Did a Series 60 Detroit or N-14 Cummins ever make it into a Mack??
Yes, Detroit engines were available in the Ultra-Liner (MH642/643) and RWI Super-Liner (RW643/743......Note: No RW642 or RW742 4x2 chassis were ever built, though they could have been ordered)
https://www.macktrucks.com/-/media/files/museum/model-production-numbers-1905-2000.pdf
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22 hours ago, RoadwayR said:
These Otosan 'Fords' are indeed very impressive, and seem to have been done with little or no help from Dearborn. Though they are growing, they are still a relatively small regional builder. Long term I think they may need to align with a large global heavy truck manufacturer to stay viable.
You say that, but remember that Ford is building the Cargo and F-MAX in China (the world’s largest truck market) at the JMC heavy truck joint venture.
Sales from Portugal to China, not shabby at all. In 10 years time, Ford Otosan has created a global footprint.
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I still look forward to learning why the USPS is purchasing a construction truck for use as a tractor, i.e. the HV (revised Workstar) instead of the more appropriate RH regional haul tractor (revised Transtar).
The only obvious reason is the RH is only available with the 12.4-litre A26 engine (MAN D26), while the 8500/8600 Transtar replaced by the RH was available with the lower priced but discontinued proprietary 9.3-litre HT570. The HV is available with both the Cummins 6.7ISB and 8.9ISL. There's simply no excuse for the RH not to be available with the ISL.
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