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TRUCKMAKERS NEWS * USA - Navistar Touts ‘Fluid Efficiency’ in Its EGR Engine
(Video from YouTube, by jtr8178 -9 Oct 2008: Learn all about the 2010 Emissions that is going to effect diesel engines, and also learn Navistar's solution and why its better then SCR!)
Warrenville,ILL,USA -Transport Topics -19 July 2010: -- Truck and engine maker Navistar Inc. proclaimed the economical operating efficiency of its products during a Webcast Monday concerning what the original equipment manufacturer called “fluid efficiency” ... The OEM said its ProStar+ tractor with a MaxxForce 13-liter engine was 0.9% more efficient than a Freightliner Cascadia with a Detroit Diesel DD15 engine, and 2.5% more efficient than a Kenworth T660 with a Cummins Inc. 15-liter ISX engine... The basis for comparison was gallons of fluid used in terms of ultra-low-sulfur diesel fuel plus urea-based diesel exhaust fluid... The ProStar+ burned diesel fuel only in its exhaust gas recirculation, or EGR, engine, while the Freightliner and Kenworth tractors used both fluids in their selective catalytic reduction, or SCR, systems... Navistar hired engineering consulting firm Transportation Research Center to run the tests where vehicles traveled 440-mile routes through northern Indiana in June and July... Navistar said the evaluation complied with standards for a Type IV test as established by the Technology & Maintenance Council of American Trucking Associations...
* USA - CARB hears Navistar’s SCR complaints
Sacramento,CAL,USA -Fleet Owner -Jul 21, 2010: -- The California Air Resources Board (CARB) held a public workshop yesterday to discuss possible changes in the way selective catalytic reduction (SCR) systems react to malfunctions or other problems in trucks meeting the Environmental Protection Agency 2010 diesel engine emissions standards. The workshop was part of an agreement with Navistar International. that led to its withdrawal of lawsuits against EPA and CARB over “guidance” or shutdown strategies issued by EPA for trucks using SCR. Navistar is the only U.S. truck manufacturer that has chosen not to use the SCR technology to meet the new emissions rules, instead employing what it calls “Advanced EGR” ... With the EPA also in attendance, Navistar presented test data that showed three trucks with SCR systems were able “to operate effectively” without the diesel emissions fluid (DEF) needed to control the regulated NOx emissions, increasing NOx emissions “ as much as 10 times higher or more than when [DEF] is present.” The test was conducted with two long-haul tractors and a heavy-duty pickup by EnSIGHT, an independent consulting firm hired by Navistar...
* Volvo delivers 300,000th 13-litre engine
Hagerstown,MD,USA -Fleet Owner -Jul 16, 2010: -- Volvo Group celebrated the construction of its 300,000th 13-litre engine globally with a special ceremony at its engine plant here... Production of Volvo's 13-litre engines began at the company's Skovde, Sweden plant in 2005. Today, production takes place in Sweden, Hagerstown and Curitiba, Brazil... The milestone engine was a 500-hp D13 and was placed in a Volvo VN780 chassis at Volvo's New River Valley truck plant in Virginia. Abilene Motor Express of Richmond, Va., took delivery of the engine... (Photo from erez.llr.se: Volvo's 13 liter engine)* USA - DTNA says. its order book now accounts for more than one-third of the industry’s backlog
Portland,OR,USA -Wardsauto, by James M. Amend -15 July 2010: -- Daimler Trucks North America will call back workers to ratchet up production this month, building 67% more Class 8 heavy-duty units in July than in like-2009... The truck maker says so far this year it has received 16,565 orders for Freightliner-brand trucks. Including school buses, DTNA’ order bank now totals 21,400 units... The production uptick will lead to the call-back of 540 workers at North Carolina assembly plants in Mt. Holly, and a Gastonia components-and-logistics facility in the state... DTNA says given its 34.2% share of the Class-8 segment in the U.S. and Canada, its order book now accounts for more than one-third of the industry’s backlog... (Photo: Daimler’s Freightliner brand tripled Class-6 sales)* Cummins ISX11.9 certified for 2010
(Video from YouTube, by spitoinkr -17 Aug 2008: Nice Cummins engine sound again with this cool International with a full load of scrap on a farm)
Columbus,IN,USA -Fleet Owner -Jul 20, 2010: -- Filling out Cummins’ on-highway engine line, the ISX11.9 diesel has been certified as meeting both the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and California Air Resources Board (CARB) emissions standards for 2010. Full production of the new engine, which is intended for heavy-duty vocational applications, will begin in August at Cummins’ Jamestown Engine Plant, according to the company... A replacement for the ISM, the ISX11.9 uses selective catalytic reduction (SCR) aftertreatment to reach the EPA’10 requirements on oxides of nitrogen (NOx) and particulate matter (PM) emissions. It shares a number of components with the larger ISX15, including a cooled exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) system, a single variable geometry turbocharger, and the company’s proprietary XPI fuel system, according to Cummins...
* USA - Truck Makers Face Transmission Monopoly Claims
New York,NY,USA -Law360 -July 20, 2010: -- Truck builders including Daimler Trucks North America LLC, Volvo Trucks North America, Peterbilt Motors Co. and Mack Trucks Inc. are facing a proposed class action alleging they conspired to maintain the monopoly power of Eaton Corp. in the market for transmissions used in large trucks... Performance Transportation Services Inc. Chapter 7 Trustee, Mark S. Wallach, filed an amended class action complaint against the truck companies in the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware...
* Kenworth T700 in full production
Chillicothe,OH,USA -Truck News -Jul 21, 2010: -- Kenworth's newest highway truck, the T700, is now in full production at the company's truck plant here... Recently, Kenworth received an order for 500 T700s from Stevens Transport out of Dallas, Texas. Kenworth claims its T700 boasts lower drag than any other truck in the company's history... It's available with the Paccar MX engine or the Cummins ISX...Labels: truckmakers news USA
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