Peterbilt now has 132 dealerships that have passed the Platinum Service Center Program certification process.
Starting in 1980, at the time of deregulation in the trucking industry, PacLease began its first year with 17 locations. Now 40 years later, it has 570 locations throughout five countries.
Paccar is recalling approximately 455,458 model-year 2008-2019 Peterbilt and 2008-2020 Kenworth Trucks equipped with NAMUX software.
Peterbilt highlighted the Model 567, 348, 337, and 220 in a variety of applications at the 20th anniversary of The Work Truck Show.
PacLease continued its vehicle growth trend by increasing its new full-service rental and leasing business by 18% in 2019.
Meritor and Kenworth will partner on developing an electric Kenworth T680E, reported to be a short-hood day cab in tractor with an operating range between 100 to 150 miles, depending on application.
Peterbilt is formally teaming up with Dana on electric powertrain development for its Model 220EV. The announcement was made at CES, the annual electronics show in Las Vegas, where Peterbilt also brought reporters up to speed on its electric-truck development progress overall.
Paccar is recalling certain 2020 model-year Kenworth T800, T880, and W990 and Peterbilt 348, 367, 389, 520, and 567 vehicles.
Paccar Parts celebrated the 10th anniversary of its Fleet Services program. The program was launched in the fourth quarter of 2009 to drive uptime and allow fleet customers to streamline purchases from Paccar dealerships.
The top most-viewed news items in 2019 were all about new trucks. It’s clear work truck fleet managers care about what’s new and fresh and continually work on updating their vehicle selectors and specs.