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Bob, I know "T" meant tandem (e.g. FT-8000), but what was the difference between an F-800, F-8000 and F-900 (there was no F-9000?).

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One could call it an inside deal. Cevian privately shopped for the highest offer.

Reuters / January 26, 2018 Truckmaker Scania will invest 10 million euros ($12.4 million) in a 4 billion euro ($5 billion) project to build Europe's biggest battery cell plant in northern Sweden. Sweden's Northvolt, whose CEO Peter Carlsson used to work for Tesla, is racing against rivals such as South Korea's LG Chem to set up large-scale battery cell plants across Europe, where automakers and industrial firms have so far been largely reliant on Asian imports. LG Chem will open a lithium-ion battery factory in Poland next year. European automakers such as BMW, Daimler, Volkswagen and Volvo Cars are all set to ramp up electric car production in the coming years. Northvolt and Scania said on Thursday they had agreed to develop and commercialize battery cell technology for heavy commercial vehicles. Scania's investment will go toward building a demonstration production line and research facility for Northvolt in Skelleftea, northern Sweden. The firms have also struck a deal for future purchases of battery cells. Northvolt's Carlsson wants the Skelleftea plant to rival U.S. electric carmaker Tesla's Gigafactory in the Nevada desert, and aims to produce a total battery storage capacity of 32 gigawatt-hours a year by 2023. Northvolt's immediate aim is to build a separate demonstration line in the Swedish town of Vasteras. Carlsson told Reuters he expected to secure initial financing of 80-100 million euros for that project during the first quarter before embarking on the far larger fund-raising for the Skelleftea plant. Scania CEO Henrik Henriksson said he hoped to see the first trucks stemming from the partnership being produced with batteries from the demo line next year, with volume production of batteries for Scania trucks and buses from Skelleftea likely to follow. "If we are successful in developing the kinds of products we aim for in this partnership, then this will be an important part of our supply chain," he said in an interview at Northvolt's headquarters in Stockholm. Last year, Northvolt signed partnership deals with Swiss engineering group ABB and Danish wind turbine maker Vestas, but it still needs to raise the vast bulk of the financing required for the Skelleftea plant. "We are involved in a number of processes. It has taken slightly more time than we expected and that is due to the fact that these are pretty big strategic decisions," Carlsson said.

No worries. Using good engineering practice, one can certainly splice in a rail. But it's not ideal for a work truck where the frame is going to be flexing/twisting. If a frame is cracked, installing an inside channel to effect repair is fine. At the former Mack Trucks, we approved that. However, installing a complete (one-piece) frame rail is the only way to achieve the desired result for a working truck. When the OP contacted his Mack brand dealer for availability and price on a new rail, I'm curious what the response was (for a 1988 RWI600).

Bob, I can’t recall, were the FT-8000s available with Ford’s 7.8, or just CAT’s 3208? They were an interesting attempt at a low-cost tandem dump chassis. .

Obama's "Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals" (DACA) program allowed 690,000 illegal immigrants to stay in the country. Now, Trump is going to outdo Obama and allow up to 1.8 million illegal immigrants remain in the country (at the end of the day, the number will certainly reach and more likely exceed 1.8 million). This is all a "slap in the face" to all the people who go through the "legal" process of immigrating to the United States. Fools, they should have simply slipped in at night......the government won't make them leave, they can collect welfare and also send their illegal immigrant children to school. Then, they can have a US-born child to anchor the whole extended family in America.

Iepieleaks / January 25, 2018 This Volvo FM crewcab was spotted by one of our friends during transport. This is probably going to be a heavy fire fighter truck, on its way to the bodybuilder. The double cab of the Volvo FM is not a common vehicle and we are curious if this is an official Volvo cab. And speaking of the Volvo FM, when is the next generation of this succesful vehicle to be launched? We did not see any prototypes on the road yet but something must be cooking in the Volvo kitchen to replace the good old, but small Volvo FM cab. .

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China's NDRC and SASAC, using Geely, want Volvo's technology. NDRC - National Development & Reform Commission SASAC - State-owned Assets Supervision & Administration Commission of the State Council

If you're not abusing the truck, I suggest you have your Mack brand dealer's service manager coordinate having you bring the truck down when his Mack district service representative is next in town for their regular visit.

https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/52070-communist-party-backed-geely-buys-volvo-stake/?tab=comments#comment-388414 8.2 percent of Volvo’s capital (Volvo Group's largest shareholder), 15.6 percent of the votes, and a board seat.

Bob's the Ford expert, but I think the basic cab design (updates aside) was the same used on the light trucks from 1980 to 1997.

How many Americans want to buy a Chinese Communist Party (CCP) built truck? That's literally what the new situation amounts to, Now, the party via Geely is the largest holder of Volvo shares, meaning the party is the largest stakeholder of the Mack brand. When one buys a Mack brand truck now, you are sending a portion of your money to the CCP. No rocket science here. How does everyone feel about that? Our government, the DOJ, should never have authorized the sale of our iconic Mack Trucks to foreign aggressors. Only Americans care about America, and American business. Foreign aggressors only want to profit in the US......their allegiance does not lie within our shores.

The US market Mack brand team hasn't put out a video in four months. https://www.youtube.com/user/ut06265/videos But since they're so bad, that might be a good thing for sales.

Heavy Duty Trucking (HDT) / January 24, 2018 The Teamsters union is seeking to prevent UPS from using driverless vehicles or drones to deliver packages, the latter of which the parcel delivery company had already performed a number of tests on, reports the Wall Street Journal. The labor union also wants UPS to ban deliveries after 9 p.m. and add an additional 10,000 workers, according to the Wall Street Journal. In February 2017, UPS successfully tested a drone that launches from atop one of its package cars. This system is designed to autonomously deliver a package while the truck is driven on a route. Previously, UPS and the Teamsters union recently clashed in December 2017 about the parcel delivery company's decision to bumping up driver workweeks to accomodate holiday deliveries, according to the Atlanta Business Chronicle. The Teamsters and UPS are currently negotiating one of the largest collective bargaining agreements in the U.S., which covers around 260,000 UPS employees and expires in July, reports The Wall Street Journal. A recent study by C.J. Driscoll & Associates found the last leg of delivery between distribution centers and buyers has become an issue for e-commerce, which accounted for 11.7% of retail sales in 2016, versus 10.5% in 2015. In October 2017, the Trump Administration moved to establish a coherent federal policy governing the use of drones in delivery applications, according to a presidential memorandum issued last October. The Teamsters and UPS are currently negotiating one of the largest collective bargaining agreements in the U.S., which covers around 260,000 UPS employees and expires in July, reports The Wall Street Journal.A recent study by C.J. Driscoll & Associates found the last leg of delivery between distribution centers and buyers has become an issue for e-commerce, which accounted for 11.7% of retail sales in 2016, versus 10.5% in 2015.In October 2017, the Trump Administration moved to establish a coherent federal policy governing the use of drones in delivery applications, according to a presidential memorandum issued last October. .

KrAZ Trucks Press Release / January 19, 2018 Weapons have been awarded and vehicles have been given on occasion of new training year 2018 to personnel of maintenance regiment of Ukraine’s Armed Forces in Nikolayev region. New KrAZ vehicles and truck tractors with semi-trailers came into possession of maintenance regiment personnel from the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine. For more information, go to the site of the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine. Various KrAZ vehicles and KrAZ-based special vehicles are presently in service with different units of National Guard, State Border Guard Service of Ukraine, and Armed Forces of Ukraine. Most of them are the KrAZ-6322 and KrAZ-5233 off road platform trucks, the KrAZ-6446 truck tractors, the KrAZ-Spartan, KrAZ-Cougar, KrAZ-Shrek armored vehicles. It should be noted that new KrAZ vehicles are provided with alternative power plants and units offering higher horsepower, torque, reduced specific fuel consumption and improved full load operation. What is more, they feature better weight and size parameters, reliability and longer time between overhauls. Except new power plant, mass produced off road vehicles are equipped with many units and systems making them more efficient and strong such as: - aluminum radiator instead of brass one with better endurance, thermal conduction, heat transfer, and hydraulic resistance; - rectangular silencer with partitions instead of cylindrical straight through resonator-type silencer to reduce ambient noise level and resistance of exhaust system and improve performance; - new clutch featuring better resistance to wear, reliability and stability; - integral steering with built-in distributor and booster with better performance to exclude power booster cylinder; - electronic control for tire inflation system by means of electric valve, switch and warning light on the dashboard helps improve working conditions for driver by using tire inflation system control switch within the reach of driver instead of hand valve under the dashboard, ensure cab tightness by excluding hole in the cab structure front panel and simplify tire inflation air system by excluding steel and flexible air limes. Kremenchug Automobile Plant builds a line of special vehicles available in various axle configurations, layouts and provides them with power plants, units and systems from various manufacturers at the customer’s request. Domestic manufacturer “KrAZ” fulfills orders for any amounts of any products available in the company’s lineup. .

Prime Mover Magazine / January 25, 2018 Hino Team Suguwara’s success in the Dakar Rally has continued with a record ninth consecutive class victory in the 2018 event. After 15 days and 14 stages of competition, Hino Team Suguwara’s Car 2 delivered a stunning performance to win the highly-competitive Under 10-litre class and finish sixth overall. Speaking at the finish line where he greeted the competitors, Hino Motors Chairman, Yasuhiko Ichihashi said: “I am very happy that the team was able to fulfil their goal of winning their ninth straight win in the Under 10-litre Class." Driver of Car 2, Teruhito Sugawara, enjoyed the challenges of the difficult course which traversed many areas he hadn’t previously raced in. “This was the 20th Dakar Rally for me personally, and I'm glad that we were able to achieve the results that we aimed for," Sugawara said. “I think we were able to make the best of our current potential so it was very satisfying in that respect too.” Hino Australia National Marketing Manager, Dimitri Andreatidis, congratulated the team on its success: “Sixth place against competitors with larger trucks is a significant achievement and one that we at Hino Australia are very proud of, especially as it is two places higher than last year. “The reliability of the Hino team once again shone through with a ninth consecutive class victory.” Both of the Hino Dakar Rally 500 Series vehicles used an enhanced version of the Hino A09C 6 cylinder engine, which is available as an option in the 500 Series Wide Cab trucks in Australia. The two 2018 Dakar Rally Hino trucks included the 8,866cm3 direct injection turbocharged and intercooled engine matched to a six-speed direct drive gearbox with secondary transmission, two-speed transfer and a part time all- wheel drive (AWD) feature in Car 1 and full time AWD in Car 2. The 40th Dakar Rally finished on 20 January after 15 challenging days that saw competitors race through Peru, Bolivia and Argentina. .

Diesel News Australia / January 25, 2018 Is this the truck of the future? Or is it the truck of the past? It is, in fact, a futuristic prototype truck which was built well over ten years ago. The Colani TUM Supertruck of 2006 was dubbed the ‘Innotruck’ and took the separated driving compartment concept to new levels. A powered aerodynamic lower module contained all the mechanicals of a conventional prime mover including a fifth wheel. On top of this sat the semi-trailer that included a cab integrated into the trailer’s nose, reduced to a conical glass canopy projected out from the streamlined trailer body rather like the Concorde’s nose. The concept included the race car-like power module, the semi trailer and a third full trailer. It was designed and built in cooperation with a team from the Technical University Munich (TUM) and was intended as a demonstration vehicle with a meeting room occupying the trailer behind the pointed single seat driving compartment. Entry and exit from the driving compartment was achieved by sliding the nose, windshield and forward windows forward for the driver to step up and into the driving seat. .

Freightliner Trucks Australia Press Release / January 2, 2018 .

IVECO Trucks Australia / January 25, 2018 IVECO Australia has announced an additional power rating for INTERNATIONAL® ProStar® models, providing buyers with a new 600 horsepower (447 kW) / 2,050 lb.ft (2,779 Nm) option, along with the existing 550 horsepower (410 kW) / 1,850 lb.ft variant (2,508 Nm) rating. The additional power has been achieved via calibration changes to the ProStar’s 15 litre Cummins X15 engine, in a successful joint project between INTERNATIONAL’s Australian engineers and the team at Cummins South Pacific. INTERNATIONAL® Engineering Manager, Adrian Wright, said the additional output rating was a logical step in offering prospective customers a second power option if the application required it. “For the initial development program, we focused on the 550 horsepower / 1,850 lb.ft rating, as this was the most commonly specified in the B-Double conventional market segment,” Mr Wright said, “but it was always our plan to look at the 600 horsepower rating at a later stage. “With increased ProStar® sales activity and a growing enquiry rate on both 550 and 600 horsepower ratings, the timing has worked well.” In bringing the 600 horsepower option to market, Mr Wright said that there was close collaboration between INTERNATIONAL’s local engineering team and Cummins South Pacific. “We re-evaluated a full production spec truck and tested it extensively both on the road and on the dyno,” he said. “The truck performed exceptionally well and easily met all of Cummins’ stringent requirements for Australian heavy haul applications. “The 550 horsepower engine is a strong performer but the additional torque of the 600 horsepower engine will allow the truck to hold a higher gear for longer which can be advantageous for certain applications and can even help save fuel in some circumstances.” Both engine ratings can be specified across the entire ProStar range encompassing ‘Tipper’, ‘Day cab’, ‘Extended cab’ and ‘Sleeper cab’ models, with either the Eaton 18-speed manual transmission or Eaton’s clever ‘UltraShift Plus’ 18-speed automated manual. .