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General, Machinery, Markets, Reuters

Vaccine mandate to lead to inflation, empty shelves, trucking executives say

Parallel mandate for U.S. entry starts Saturday

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Ottawa | Reuters — Canadian consumers should soon see higher prices and some empty shelves in supermarkets and other retail outlets because of disruptions stemming from a COVID-19 vaccine mandate for cross-border truckers, top trucking executives warned this week. The mandate, imposed by Ottawa to help curb the spread of the virus, has cost six […] Read more
The all-electric F-150 Lightning will be arriving on dealers’ lots in the spring of 2022.
Machinery, News

A look at the all-electric Ford F-150 Lightning

Ford steps boldly into a future of new vehicle drivetrains

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The typical vehicle drivetrain as we know it — and have known it for about a century — is about to change drastically. Alternative fuel engines, those other than gas and diesel, and most importantly battery electric vehicles are poised to become the dominant types of vehicles on the road within a decade or so. […] Read more
GM’s CAMI assembly plant at Ingersoll, Ont. (GM.ca)
General, Machinery, Reuters

GM aims to tackle chip shortage with new designs

Chip-making investments to be in U.S., Canada

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Reuters — General Motors aims to tackle the global semiconductor shortage with new designs built in North America, president Mark Reuss said on Thursday. Reuss told an investor conference GM is working with seven chip suppliers on three new families of microcontrollers that will reduce the number of unique chips by 95 per cent on […] Read more
You won’t find a big V-8 under the hood of the 2022 Hummer, just batteries and electric drives.
Equipment, Machinery

Hummer pickup goes electric

GM’s reinvented Hummer pickup a sign of things to come

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Remember when General Motors’ Hummer used to be the poster child for gas-guzzling macho machines? It was a kind of moving billboard that emphasized the excesses of the 1980s. That perceived lack of environmental sensitivity is credited by many industry observers as one of the main reasons the Hummer brand went sour, then extinct. But […] Read more
Paccar’s sister truck brands Kenworth (top) and Peterbilt have both introduced new medium-duty models that share similar design updates.
Equipment, Machinery

New medium-duty trucks from Paccar’s brands

Kenworth and Peterbilt introduce new models

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Paccar’s Kenworth and Peterbilt brands launched new medium-duty truck models in April for the Class 5 to Class 8 weight groups, which start in the 7,258-kilogram GVWR range and go up from there. Peterbilt is a relative newcomer to the medium-duty segment, only producing its first truck for that market in 1995, but it has […] Read more
A view near the Canadian end of the Ambassador Bridge, which connects Windsor and Detroit and is considered one of North America’s busiest trade routes. (Steven_Kriemadis/iStock/Getty Images)
General, Reuters

Police reopen Ambassador Bridge

Bridge reopened following search for explosives

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Updated, Oct. 4 — Toronto | Reuters –– Canadian police reopened a major road bridge between Canada and the U.S. after largely shutting it down for hours on Monday to search for possible explosives in a vehicle, resulting in long delays for truckers at the busiest international crossing in North America. The Canada Border Services […] Read more
Ford’s 2021 F-150 offers six engine options, including a new gas-electric hybrid drivetrain that delivers 570 pound-feet of torque.
Machinery, News

More, stronger, better: how Ford describes the 2021 F-150

Ford offers V8 to hybrid drivetrain options, boosts pickup performance

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The news coming from major machinery brands in recent months has centred around more power and better connectivity. Taking a look at what Ford has to say about its 2021 F150, the news is almost exactly the same — more power (from several engine options), higher tow ratings (up to 14,000 pounds or 6,350 kilograms) […] Read more
Ford subjected the new PowerBoost hybrid F-150 to all the usual durability tests — and added an extra one to make sure engineers had created a reliable design.
Machinery, News

Ford F-150 hybrid field test

The automaker exposes the PowerBoost powerplant to extreme conditions

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Ford’s new 3.5-litre PowerBoost F-150 made its debut this model year, marking the first time a gas-electric hybrid powertrain has ever been available in the F-150. The PowerBoost drivetrain delivers an impressive 430 horsepower and 570 pound-feet of torque, which is the highest torque rating ever for an F-150. But like all components that appear […] Read more
Screenshot from a U.S. NHTSA video showing a rupturing Takata airbag inflator. (Nhtsa.gov via YouTube)
General, Machinery, Reuters

Ford recalling older-model Rangers over airbag inflators

Deaths, injuries linked to faulty inflators

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Washington | Reuters — Ford Motor Co. is recalling 153,000 older trucks that may have had obsolete Takata air bag modules installed in collision and theft repairs after the Takata recall was completed, the automaker said on Thursday. The second-largest U.S. automaker identified about 8,800 Ford Ranger 2004-06 trucks in Canada and 144,340 in the […] Read more

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