The Fleet Business Authority
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Peterbilt he Model 579 with its wide cab and hood (shown) is Peterbilt's premier sleeper-cab highway tractor. The new Model 587 has a large, 2.1meter-wide Paccar cab that it shares with the equally new 567 vocational truck. Pete's 3-series models continue with a narrow cab and shorter hoods: T the regional and local 384 and longerhaul 386.The traditionally styled 389 also continues with a narrow cab (the descendent of the 379 and 359 that have been owner-operator favorites for decades), as do the vocational 365 and 367. Most are standard with PacCircle 255 on Reader Action Card car's MX-13 and some optional with or go to www.hdt.hotresponse.com Cummins' 11.9- and 15-liter ISX diesels. Volvo, whose I-Shift sales are now "north of 50%" in VN models, according to Koeck. At Mack, "Currently we are building approximately 41% of our Pinnacle products with this mShift feature," reports Warmkessel. Many of those are paired with lowrevving proprietary diesels, a package that Mack calls SuperEconodyne and Volvo sells as XE, for "eXceptional Efficiency." Cummins has teamed up with Eaton to design SmartDrive, a slow-revving ISX15 mated to an Eaton UltraShift Plus automated transmission. SmartDrive claims 3% to 6% better fuel economy plus much easier operation than standard engines with manual transmissions. Mack and Volvo products Compared to last get similar results, year, 2013's Class 8 those builders say, and customers pace is off by about are placing repeat 12% in the long-haul orders. Navistar segment but up by doesn't make its 8% or so in vocational own self-shifting gearbox, but trucks. now offers three products: the Cummins-Eaton SmartDrive; the Allison TC-10, a torque converter 10-speed automatic unveiled several years ago and only recently entering production; and an Eaton UltraShift Plus LSE, a 16-speed AMT model said to be exclusive to Navistar. The TC-10 yields 5% better fuel economy and the Eaton AMT has saved 6% in fuel in fleet tests, Navistar says. Caterpillar's CX31 fully automatic transmission is "gaining momentum" in the Cat vocational truck, with www.truckinginfo.com Short-haul 382 uses only the 8.9-liter Paccar PX-9 (aka Cummins ISL).The 340 series can be built as medium- and medium-heavy vocational trucks with Cummins-made Paccar PX diesels.The 320 heavy low-cab-forward has been built to mount concrete pumpers, but it's mostly for trash collection. Certain models can be ordered with Cummins Westport's ISL G and ISX12 G, or Westport Innovation's 15L (though this will soon be dropped by Westport). Paccar TruckerLink and NavPlus are available from Peterbilt and its sister company Kenworth. half of all orders for the CT660 model specifying it, says George Taylor, director of the company's Global OnHighway Group. WEIGHS LESS, WAY LESS. X4™ Tier 4 units now weigh 30 pounds less. That's over 235 pounds lighter than competitive units. X4 Series. Simply smarter engineering. Performance data compared to the Carrier Transicold models they replace and dependent on a range of operational settings, environmental conditions, and model type. ©2013 Carrier Corporation. DECEMBER 2013 • HDT 53