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The article features The Terex Trucks acquired by Volvo Group in 2014 from Terex Corp. which was rebranded as Rokbak in September 2021. Topics discussed include remarks from Rokbak Managing Director Paul Douglas about changing the brand, business success of the Rokbak brand, and benefit offered by Rokbak's Haul Track telematics system.

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ONCE MANUFACTURERS COMMITTED TO GOVERNMENT WORK AT THE START OF WORLD WAR II, AMERICAN CONSUMERS COULD ONLY DREAM ABOUT THE EXCITING PRODUCTS PEACE WOULD BRING TO THE MARKET WHILE THEIR [...]

Supporting the Airbus A380--the largest commercial aircraft in the world with room for 555 passengers--from the ground will require a new fleet of equipment. One company, TLD Europe, headquartered near [...]

Cool fresh air comes at a significant expense in an underground mine. Air pollution in a hardrock mine comes from a variety of sources--just as it does above ground--but emissions [...]

Hydraulic drive systems make some of the off-highway equipment industry's most unique vehicles possible. Unencumbered by driveshafts and chains, hydraulic drives give engineers the ability to design a specialized machine [...]

Sakai America, Inc., the North American arm of the ride-on compactor producer, recently launched SmartEquip's Inc. Parts & Service Manager system. SmartEquip's web-based parts ordering and product support system brings [...]

These days, young students often lament that there is nothing new to discover or that everything worthwhile has already been created. Ironically, this pessimistic view is itself not a modern-day [...]

Two new Caterpillar H Series medium wheel loaders, the 950H and 962H, feature changes to enhance productivity and reduce owning and operating costs. New Cat engines featuring ACERT technology provide [...]

'Systems' has officially achieved buzzword status in the off-high-way industry--systems control, systems design, systems integration. We are systems rich. Hand-in-hand with the popularity of systems is the incorporation of electronics. [...]

No one likes a pile of burning garbage. That burning pile is even more despised when it's still in the garbage truck. The smoldering heap is downright hated when it [...]

The USS Merrimack was a 4,636-ton steam frigate built at the Boston Navy Yard and commissioned in February 1856. After four years of service in European and Pacific waters, she [...]

Old landmines are a serious problem in Afghanistan. According to the United Nations Mine Action Service (UNMAS), they kill or injure 100 people a month. An estimated 716 million square [...]

Intriguing components, interesting prototypes, and corporate displays that rivaled those automobile shows in Detroit or Chicago were only part of the 36th edition of EIMA, the International Exposition of Agricultural [...]

When it comes to versatility, few machines can boast the diversity of jobs that the utility vehicle (UTV) has been hired to perform. Offered by an ever-increasing number of large [...]

The innovative failures of the industry often rise to the top of an antique collector's wish-list. The pioneers may have had sound concepts, but for whatever reason those ideas did [...]

When one of the nation's largest lawn and garden tractor manufacturers was looking to partner with a different plastic injection molder, United Southern Industries (USI) got their attention and, ultimately, [...]

When your engineering team goes back to their virtual drawing board to reroute an excavator's hydraulic system to try to increase its efficiency by 1%, they may overlook a relatively [...]

Husco Intl.'s INCOVA technology represents a radical departure in the way hydraulic systems operate, offering OEMs and their customers improvements in six critical areas--productivity, efficiency, controllability, reliability, safety and flexibility--without [...]

For more than 100 years, track systems have permitted vehicles to work far beyond where their wheeled counterparts got stuck. Pioneers such as Alvin Lombard and Benjamin Holt helped set [...]