Veteran-owned company puts military-themed trucks to work

Amanda Bayhi - May 27, 2013

The four newest Kenworth T800s at Valley Paving in in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area feature patriotic paint schemes promoting the four military branches: Army, Air Force, Navy and Marines. Rich Carron, a Vietnam veteran, owns the company. He said about a ...

Kenworth launches T880 vocational truck

Amanda Bayhi - Mar 22, 2013

Kenworth launched its T880(TM) vocational truck at the annual Mid-America Trucking Show in Louisville. The T880 will be available for production this summer. The T880 is for applications such as mixer and refuse, as well as dump and heavy haul applications ...

Highway Contractor

Better Roads Staff - Aug 05, 2012

HOT! Achieving the high production/quality double on Interstate 10 FNF Construction earned mix quality bonuses averaging $2.30 per ton. FNF Construction and the Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT) set the bar very high these days in hot mix asphalt paving on Interstate ...

Kenworth Helps Students at Seattle University with Real-World Engineering Projects and Mentoring

Tina Grady Barbaccia - Jun 20, 2012

Shown in front of the new Kenworth T680 are, from left, Reid Nabarrete, Kenworth assistant general manager for operations, and Jean Jacoby, associate dean of the College of Science and Engineering at Seattle University. Nabarrete recently accepted a special ...

Cooper Kenworth adds Asheville location

Amy Materson - May 03, 2012

Cooper Kenworth has opened a 31,000-square-foot parts and service operation in Asheville, North Carolina. The facility, located along U.S. Interstate 40 at 1895 Old Haywood Road, has 14 service bays and a 7,000-square-foot parts department. One bay is a dedicated ...

New Road Products

Better Roads Staff - Sep 07, 2011

Eaton Vocational truck efficiency? Expanded line makes it automatic An automatic transmission in a vocational truck application is no longer a pipedream or even a novelty. In fact, as transmission system suppliers continue to develop and grow their product lines, automatics have ...