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Earler this year, Kenworth hosted a group of trucking editors for a ride and drive at the Paccar technical center near Mt. Vernon, Wash., in an area known as the Skagit Valley. The center has twin mile-and-a-half tracks. The outer loop is a 1.6-mile, two-lane, high-speed track used for testing aerodynamics and fuel economy. The inner 1.5-mile durability track simulates 1 million miles in three months.
On Dec. 2, U.S. Speaker of the House John Ryan will be ready to light up this 74-foot tall Lutz Spruce on the west lawn of the U.S. Capitol Building with thousands of LED lights and 4,000 ornaments. The official welcoming of the U.S. Capitol Christmas tree and the kickoff to the holidays is a tradition that began in 1964 by House Speaker John W. McCormack.
“LNG is one of the better-kept secrets in trucking,” says David Jaskolski — and he doesn’t want it to be. He's with Pivotal LNG, a subsidiary of Georgia-Based energy company AGL Resources, which operates a liquifaction facility in Trussville, Ala., outside Birmingham. The company supplies more than 1 million gallons of LNG a month to UPS and other truck fleets. Editor in Chief Deborah Lockridge took a tour of the facility.
Action Truck Parts in Bolingbrook, Ill., is paying attention to its customers and helping them get in and out quickly with the parts they need. It recently moved to a more visual customer experience offering more of a retail approach to parts purchasing. Photos: Denise Rondini
ATA's 2015 Management Conference & Exhibition was held in Philadelphia. HDT's staff captured the event in photos.
Take a short stroll along some of the one-and-a-half-million square feet of production space inside the Mack/Volvo Powertrain assembly plant in Hagerswon, Md., which recently began assembling all Mack heavy-duty drive axles as well as handling the machining of axle carrier housings. Photos: David Cullen
Take in some of the sights from the Technology & Maintenance Council's SuperTech 2015, held in Orlando, Fla.
The test track at the Paccar Technical Center in ????? provides a real-world proving ground for Paccar products, including Kenworth, Peterbilt, DAF and the Paccar MX engines, from all over the world.
