Archive: March 2024

The Environmental Protection Agency on March 29 set strict emissions standards for heavy-duty trucks, buses and other large vehicles, an action that officials said will help clean up some of the nation’s largest sources of planet-warming greenhouse gases.

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Beginning Monday, April 1, 2024, the Parts and Service Departments at Kenworth of Cleveland will be open from 7:00am to 7:00pm, Monday through Friday. Saturday hours will remain the same, 8:00am to 12:00pm. Truck sales hours will also remain the same, 8:00am to 5:00pm.

Each year as part of the Best Fleets to Drive For process, fleets are asked if they have investigated driver turnover and what they have found. Some answers are more common than others, yet some of the main answers drivers give may not truly explain why drivers are leaving for other companies.

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Ahead of the April 8 total solar eclipse, which will stretch from Texas to Maine, some state transportation departments are advising truckers to consider staying off the roads as traffic is expected to be severely impacted by people traveling to see the astronomical event. Millions of people descended on states with views of the 2017 total solar eclipse, congesting roadways. Transportation officials are sharing plans in an effort to minimize headache-inducing traffic jams. That includes guidance for truckers when up to 3.7 million people are expected to chase the darkness this time around.

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Money and benefits may help you land an experienced truck driver, but it takes more than that to make sure he or she will stay. Communication and culture work together to create an atmosphere where a driver will be less likely to look for greener pastures elsewhere. But it takes work to craft a top-tier culture.

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PACCAR has introduced the new TX-12 Pro automated transmission for Class 6-7 and light Class 8 vocational applications. The company says it builds upon the existing PACCAR TX-12 transmission. Currently, the new transmission is available with select Kenworth Class 8 models, including the T680 and T880 equipped with the PACCAR MX-11 or PACCAR PX-9 engines. Later this year, the transmission will be available in Kenworth Class 6-8 medium duty models, including the T280, T380, and T480 equipped with the PACCAR PX-9 engine.

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The Clean Freight Coalition, a transportation advocacy group, unveiled a new study that puts the price tag for fully transitioning the U.S. trucking industry over to battery-electric vehicles at $1 trillion.

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Think of a Kenworth truck and you’ll imagine heavy goliaths that steadily pound the highways all over the U.S. with any range of commodities in tow. Their big and powerful engines produce tons of torque (much more than their horsepower outputs would have you believe) and of course, they are thirsty.

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One week after the first “super load” headed out from Adams County, an identical second is due to follow the same route next week. The Ohio Department of Transportation and Ohio State Highway Patrol will escort the second large load, led by a Kenworth W900, beginning Thursday, March 14. It is scheduled to depart the same dock east of Manchester around 8 a.m. Like the first load, this one weighs 390,000 pounds, is 18’3″ tall, 18’6″ wide, and 200′ long and will be delivered to Hebron. It is not related to the Intel plant being built in Licking County. Due to St. Patrick’s Day, the city of Columbus will not allow the load to move through the city on Sunday, March 17, so it will remain at Rickenbacker Airport until Saturday, March 23. It is scheduled to reach Hebron on Monday, March 25.

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For several years now, the trucking industry has been telling regulators that one of the big barriers to wider adoption of heavy-duty zero-emission vehicles is the lack of charging/fueling infrastructure. With its new National Zero-Emission Freight Corridor Strategy, it looks like the Biden-Harris administration has been listening.

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