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Medium, Heavy Truck Fuel Economy Standards Deadline Set For March 2016
Before a gathering at a distribution warehouse in Maryland, United States President Barack Obama announced that his administration has set March 2016 as the deadline for the next round of fuel...
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Ram Truck Lineup Adopts SAE Towing Standard From 2015 Forward
The Society of Automotive Engineers recently introduced a new designation standardizing maximum towing ratings, with the aim of sorting out the mess automakers have made with their internal...
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GM Will Set Base Curb Weight For Its Truck Lineup
The next time you visit a Chevrolet or GMC showroom to check out a full-size or mid-size pickup, you may find the truck’s curb weight to be heavier than once advertised. That’s because General Motors...
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Electronic Stability Control Required On All Heavy Trucks, Large Buses By 2017
Two years from now, all heavy trucks and large buses will be required to equip electronic stability control per a new rule from the NHTSA. The new rule, finalized Wednesday, would affect all trucks...
View ArticleGMC Teases the 2017 Sierra Denali 2500HD, Wants You to Really Notice That...
GMC’s got a secret, but it’s keeping it hidden under the hood of its 2017 Sierra Denali 2500HD for now. The company released photos today of the their updated heavy-duty pickup, and made sure everyone...
View ArticleGM’s Diesel-Powered HD Pickups Get Ram-Air Hood Scoop to Keep Things Cool
You remember the hood scoop on that teased 2017 GMC Sierra 2500HD? The one General Motors really wanted you to notice? Well, GM spilled the beans on the mystery inlet, explaining that all of its...
View Article2017 Chevrolet Silverado HD First Drive – More Than Just Numbers
At the end of September, some of my auto journo colleagues busied themselves with the French delights of Paris, covering new reveals at the Paris Auto Show. Me? I was somewhere much more in line with...
View ArticleGMC Introduces More Sensible ‘Xtreme’ Off-Road Truck
Do you want heavy-duty work truck wrapped in black sheetmetal fit for a henchman? You’re in luck, my productive and sinister friend. GMC has expanded its All Terrain X series to include the Sierra...
View ArticleFiat Chrysler Isn’t in a Hurry to Update the Ram Heavy Duty: Report
Another week, another pushed-back launch date for a next-generation Fiat Chrysler Automobiles product. Last week, supplier sources claimed the range-topping Jeep Grand Wagoneer SUV was on hold, but...
View ArticleAnother Flare-up in the Great Torque War: Ram 3500 Takes the Lead
Healthy competition lowers the price of consumer goods, the economists tell us, but it also raises torque ratings. Nowhere is this more apparent than among the Detroit Three automakers, with Ford,...
View ArticleConsumers Union Wants Heavy-duty Truck Buyers to Know Their Vehicle’s Fuel...
Say you’re on the Ram website, perusing a new 2500 heavy-duty pickup. On the specifications page, you scroll down to the fuel efficiency table to see how many Andrew Jacksons you’ll be forking over at...
View ArticleRam Just Can’t Get Enough, Introduces Two New Trims at the State Fair of Texas
People allege that everything’s bigger in Texas. At the State Fair, they’re probably right. Ram chose the long-running extravaganza to show off a couple of new trim packages now available on their...
View Article2020 Chevrolet Silverado HD High Country: Okay, Now We’re Getting Somewhere
Unless you took the past couple of days off to ruminate about our collective existence in a Scandinavian steam hut, you probably noticed there’s a new heavy duty General Motors pickup on the way. We’ve...
View Article2020 GMC Sierra Heavy Duty First Drive – Tow Happy
Heavy-duty truck buyers tow things often. So do many light-duty truck buyers. So perhaps I shouldn’t have been surprised to be be asked, shortly after stepping off an airplane, to get behind the wheel...
View Article2020 Ford F-350 Tremor Review: Factory Brodozer
I’d like to think the term wouldn’t need an explanation at this point, but for the sake of those just tuning in from parts of the country where vegan eateries outnumber personal automobiles, I’d like...
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