For fleets and owner-operators wanting to make old trucks new again, Kenworth is offering glider kits for the T660, T800 (split fender configuration), and W900L models. All sleeper sizes are available ...
Like some other small trucking firms, Old Forge Services of Mogadore, Ohio, has turned to glider kits to reduce maintenance expenses and downtime. Glider trucks, which combine a new truck body with an ...
Craig Young, president of Young Truck Sales and Young Volvo in Canton, Ohio, is doing a brisk trade in glider kits with the steel haulers in that area. His customers, mostly 20- to 50-truck fleets, ...
At the Great American Trucking Show in Dallas on Thursday, Aug. 23, Kenworth announced it now is offering glider kits for the T660, T800 (split fender configuration) and W900L models for fleets and ...
During a recent visit to Salt Lake City, I learned that a partnership of companies is looking to make it easier for fleets to enter the natural gas market. The key player in the cooperative effort is ...
Despite the industry’s lackluster truck sales since the recession, Cookeville, Tenn.-based Fitzgerald Glider Kits has seen sales double each year since 2010, and it expects the trend to continue in ...
Glider kits emerged as an option for those looking to avoid the costs and headaches of newly introduced emissions technology. TORONTO, Ont. — There are hundreds if not thousands of trucks rumbling ...
Kenworth Truck Co. has released glider kits for several models to help owners who wish to bring an older truck back to “new” status. The kits, available for the T660, T800 (split fender configuration) ...
Glider kits — new trucks that are equipped with older engines and drivetrain components — will be almost outlawed by 2021 due to provisions of the federal Phase 2 Greenhouse Gas and Fuel Economy rules ...
ST. THOMAS, ON. — More fleets are holding on to older trucks longer and more shops are turning to glider kits as a means of refreshing the fleet. So the question arises, says Don Moore the Executive ...
Members of Congress on both sides of the aisle have written three letters to Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt asking him to reconsider his proposal to repeal an Obama ...