2007 October | Trucks and Trailers

Western Star Trucks

October 12th, 2007 by shenron

Heavy-duty custom trucks for long haul and vocational applications are the basis of Western Star Trucks. They design, manufacture, and distribute these types of custom trucks just for you to have the perfect ride. The Western Star Truck company is known for the high quality and distinctive line of premium trucks that it possesses. With the belief that the driver is the most valuable asset in trucking, the Western Star Truck Company was founded. They believe that in the trucking industry, the driver is best. And with a good driver must come the high quality trucks that can be managed with Western Star Trucks. Its roots can be traced to 1967, when the Western Star Trucks began with engineering and operations located at company headquarters in Cleveland Ohio and its production in Canada. Growing demands from the customers for mining, logging, and oil field heavy-duty trucks, brought the Western Star plant to eventually become 250,000 square feet of manufacturing space and 50,000 square feet of just-in-time warehousing. Improvements were made in efficiency and with the growth of scientific technologies, the engineering and manufacturing of the custom-built Class 8 trucks were for vocational applications.

For the manufacturing and producing, the premium highway trucks offer the Long Haul, Bulk Haul, Auto Haul, and Expediter. These are the serious trucks made for the serious truckers. The severe/extreme duty involves the Twin Steer, Military, Oilfield, Mining, Logging, Fire/Ems, and towing/recovery models. These trucks are custom made for you and the trade that you are in, whether hard labor, deliveries, or just unloading and loading things that must be transported, the severe and/or extreme duty models are the best for you. The newest Stratosphere Star Light Sleepers are out of this universe. A blending of the traditional and the unique of models came out with this truck. There is an owner-operator feel and look that you always fell in love with for the sleepers. Elite trucks are built today with quality walk-through design, uniqueness, and the workmanship that you must be supplied.

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Kenworth Trucks

October 6th, 2007 by shenron

Kenworth trucks offers a wide variety of top quality parts and truck services. The customer service is extravagant, and the materials they provide is the most useful known nation wide. Newer models of Kenworth trucks are the Kenworth T660 which is the most highly evolved aerodynamic long-haul conventional, period.

The objective for the Kenworth T660 was to cut fuel consumption to the bone, then the result was the new T660 - nailing the objective head on. The T600 started it all for Kenworth Trucks. Advances in styling, simulation technologies, rapid prototyping and durable, but weight-saving materials come with the advances that was sparked through the years, and Kenworth Trucks have been keeping up the pace. Labeled as the perfect truck, the T660 model built by Kenworth’s engineers has unsurpassed aerodynamics that make it the perfect truck for line haul applications. Maneuverability is key, but when you think of Kenworth Trucks that’s what you get - the best.

The Kenworth Truck Company was founded in 1923 and is supported by an extensive dealer network of more than 290 dealer locations in the US and Canada. The dealer network they have running provides parts, service and body shop support for customers under the Kenworth PremierCare Parts and Service. Kenworth Trucks is a leading manufacturer of heavy and medium duty trucks. The company upholds its headquarters in Kirkland, Wash. And operates manufacturing plants in Chillicothe, Ohio; Ste-Therese, Que.; and Seattle and Renton, Wash. Kenworth Trucks operate 24 hours a day, seven days a week for sheer customer support and franchising. In the early 1900s dramatic changes to the Northwest brought the Model Ts, who in which challenged the horse and carriage in the transportation race. Seattle businessman Edgar Worthington was managing his mother’s complex, occupied by a car and truck dealership. Captain Frederick Kent had acquired the company and renamed it the Gersix Motor Company. In 1919, Frederick Kent retired from business and his son, Harry Kent became Edgar’s new partner in the car industry. In 1923, the transaction was completed, and it marked the beginning of a new era in time. The company was later known as Ken-Worth, named after the two principal stockholders Harry Kent and Edgar Worthington.

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Mack Trucks

October 2nd, 2007 by shenron

Mack trucks are available any many different shapes and forms. There are the construction series, highway series, refuse series, and the powertrain. The construction series is built for the extremes. Whether it is granite, granite axle back, or TerraPro Cab overs, this is the series in which is the extreme of the extreme. These are built to tack rock quarries, rugged job sites and rough roads. Top to bottom, the Mack Trucks engineered these babies with all of its parts to function perfectly with one another for optimal performance. Precision manufacturing caused many advantages in the newest Mack Granite total package; the high-horsepower MP engine, stronger chassis, the reinforced cab, smarter electronics, ergonomic dash and plush interior features all come together to create the best performance Mack Granite ever.

The highway series features the incredible Mack Pinnacle that is built to conquer heavy loads, steep grades and long hauls. The integrated power train features a higher horsepower, fuel efficient Mack MP engine that delivers superior low-end torque power. The lightweight but strong chassis, the industry-leading electronics, ergonomic dashboards, reinforced cabs and plush interiors, makes it clear that Mack producers thought of everything for the users to make you feel like you’re mounted up in a mansion for the road. The refuse series introduces a brand new Mack TerraPro which was designed to take the refuse market to a whole new playing field. Built in a cab over model and in a low entry model these types of trucks direct a different standard for refuse trucks - these are the best. Lastly, the newly balanced design powertrain. Integrated components of the Mack Balanced Design powertrain such as the engines, transmissions and axles work far better because they were designed to associate with each other, giving the best functions that Mack can offer.

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Pusher Trailer

October 2nd, 2007 by shenron

The pusher trailer’s benefits are its fewer energy conversions (chemical - thermal - mechanical), the less IC horsepower it needs, it’s potentially lighter than a generator trailer, the EV system does not need to be sized for continuous use, and it’s cheaper than the other trailers out there. A difficult problem with the pusher trailer is how to control the throttle and transmission remotely. Pusher trailers are gasoline or diesel fueled trailers with a traditional internal combustion and transmission which can be hitched up to battery electric vehicles and run from the cockpit to give the vehicle increased range.

The trailer also provides ground traction through the heels to push the trailer forward, and just by default, the electric vehicle as well. In this way, a t rip beyond the normal range of the EV can be undertaken without stopping to recharge at all. If you want to experience all around town driving, the Ev’s are the best choice. The two words that can show thousands of things are clean and quiet. These pusher trailers are up to the task of keeping up with the urban traffic. Longer trips can be more difficult to you, but the problem is that they do need to be recharged from time to time if you’re using an EV. The pusher is a type of range extender trailer. Pusher trailers are made from a clip of a car that has all of the driving components all in one end. It’s hitched to an EV and controlled from the inside of the EV. The pusher trailer then provides all of the motive power for longer trips, usually for cruising power on the highways. A pusher trailer is generally considered to be more efficient than the other popular option for range extending, such as to carry a generator used to turn the EV into a series hybrid.

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Genset Trailer

October 2nd, 2007 by shenron

This is most commonly referred to as a range extending device for the use with battery electric vehicles. The Genset trailer consists of an internal combustion engine and an electrical generator. They run on traditional fuels such as gasoline or diesel and are sized to provide the continuous power requirements for the vehicle they are about to be associated with. Most small to mid-sized passenger vehicles would require about 15 to 20 kW for unlimited freeway travel as long as fuel were available. The larger-sized vehicles could require approximately 30 kW or more of power. It all depends on how heavy and/or un-aerodynamic they happen to be at that certain point in time.

One such trailer is the AC propulsion. It is a backtracking Long ranger range extending gas fueld trailer, making it a gas-electric series plug-in hybrid electric vehicle. This trailer uses a 500 cc Kawasaki engine with a 9.5 gallon fuel tank and achieved 30 to 35 mpg. It’s rated at 20 kW DC output and can maintain up to 60 to 80 mph. The AC Propulsion company is situated in San Dimas, California and was founded in 1992 by Alan Cocconi. This company produces the Genset trailer, in which was a prototype gasoline-powered motorcycle-engine-base to extend an Evs range. In the process of testing this certain device, they had discovered that emissions for a gasoline engine optimized to run at a constant RPM were far below those of conventional vehicles. An under-trailer genset that is easily detachable and has the capacity to refrigerate three containers at one time has been released after field trails involving nine units. The development of the UTD genset trailer was initiated by Cummins Swan Hill in Victoria after consultation with a number of road transport operators.

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