Cummins will integrate Gatik’s autonomous vehicle technology with its own drive-by-wire software for use on Isuzu Class 6 FTR box trucks using Cummins’ B6.7 engine.
Borderlands is a weekly rundown of developments in the world of United States-Mexico cross-border trucking and trade. This week: Mexico’s heavy-duty truck production, exports surge in February; Mattel will invest $47 million in a Mexican factory; Cummins moves a production line to San Luis Potosí; and traffickers create a logistics company to distribute meth.
After a panel discussion extolling better relations between shippers and carriers, a question sets off a discussion on current selection processes.
New-generation autonomous trucks are losing their Frankenstein’s monster image thanks to better-packaged technology designs.
Western Star advances a family makeover with the second entry into its X-Series of vocational trucks.
Shell chose the Advanced Clean Transportation Expo to talk up diesel-powered freight efficiency. An odd choice of venue — or was it?
“If we don’t think about disrupting, we are not going to succeed,” says Cummins’ Amy Davis.
Kenworth spent five years preparing a new range of medium-duty trucks, its first all-new lineup in three decades.
In the midst of vehicle electrification, Terminal Investment Corp. is enlisting the help of Volvo Penta and Cummins to create its first terminal tractor with an electric powertrain.
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