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Class 8 Update..................................................................................... 6
Owning The Wheel........................................................................... 10
Sudoku Puzzle.................................................................................... 14
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CLASS 8 UPDATE
A couple of
CLASS 8-RELATED
news items to note:
BENDIX TAKES 3 STEPS TOWARD THE FUTURE WITH INTELLIPARK,
UNGRADED WINGMAN FUSION, BLINDSPOTTER
There’s little question whether autonomous trucks
will be among us someday. The real questions are
how far in the future that day will be and the pace
at which the technology will progress between now
and then.
Fred Andersky, director of customer solutions,
controls for Bendix Commercial Vehicle Systems, has
given a lot of thought to those questions. He shared
some of those thoughts during an online press
presentation Bendix held September 15
titled “Building Tomorrow Today.”
There are two camps when it comes
to autonomous vehicle technology,
Andersky said. Some look at it as a
single technical endeavor — create
self-driving vehicles. Others see it as
a gradual, “stepping stone” process
of various driver-assist technologies
evolving and eventually being integrated
together.
Andersky said he, like Bendix, are
in that second camp, which he used
as a segue to introduce Bendix’ latest
breakthroughs, including the soonto-be
released Intellipark system and
upgrades to its Wingman Fusion and Blindspotter
systems.
“Fusion continues to build on the combination
of proven technologies paving the way toward an
increasingly automated future of safer vehicles
and roadways,” Andersky said. “Brake sensors,
cameras, and radar units all provide different,
valuable types of information — all of which are
combined and cross-checked to create a detailed
and accurate data picture.”
This newest generation of Wingman Fusion
adds highway departure braking, Active Cruise with
Braking (ACB) Stop & Driver Go, ACB Auto-Resume,
and multilane emergency braking, along with more
enhanced collision mitigation and braking capabilities.
These enhancements enable Fusion to now
provide full braking power on the tractor, compared
with the two-thirds power previously possible, along
with pulsing air back to the trailer to provide trailer
braking. Combined with improved sensor and
data analysis, this means that in many emergency
situations, the system can reduce a vehicle’s speed
by as much as 50 miles per hour.
Multilane automatic emergency braking is another
addition to the collision mitigation system. Cameras
detect the lane the truck is in as well as the lane on
either side.
If an accident occurs up ahead and the driver
quickly switches lanes, left or right, to avoid it, the new
system can scan those lanes to detect if they are clear
and to react accordingly.
ACB Stop & Driver Go allows the driver to resume
cruise control after braking to a stop without the need to
push the resume switch. With a tap on the accelerator,
the truck will continue in motion, adjusting to the traffic
flow that is resuming around it.
Another new feature on Wingman Fusion is highway
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departure braking. Up until now, a lane departure
warning would be sounded when the vehicle hit the
fog line or started going off the road. With the new
feature, when the vehicle gets halfway over the line,
a vehicle departure warning is issued. If the vehicle
keeps going without any corrective move or braking
from the driver, the system can cancel cruise control
and apply the brakes, bringing the vehicle to a stop.
Bendix has also upgraded its Blindspotter system
with improved radar and the ability to integrate with
the Wingman Fusion system.
When connected to the vehicle’s J1939 controller
area network, the new BlindSpotter covers a wider,
150-degree range up to 20 feet in front of or behind
the radar unit and 10 feet out.
Using side-mounted radar — usually on the
passenger side but capable of being mounted to
the driver side — Blindspotter provides a visual alert
when vehicles or objects are in the coverage zone. If
the driver turns on the turn signal when a vehicle is
in the coverage zone, the system issues both visual
and audible warnings.
To minimize false alerts, the system operates
in two modes: highway speed, which filters out
stationary objects, and at speeds of less than 20
mph, which narrows the coverage range and no
longer filters stationary objects.
Bendix’ Intellipark electronic parking brake control
system is currently in fleet trials and is expected to
launch sometime in 2019.
Intellipark is designed to help prevent rollaway
and runaway crashes by automatically setting the
brakes if the driver exits the vehicle while it is not
parked. Bendix officials cited a survey that showed
that in any given year about 60 percent of fleets
experience at least one such incident.
The system detects if the driver has exited the
vehicle — is the vehicle stopped? Is there no foot on
the brake? Has the seatbelt been undone? Has the
door been opened? If these occur but the parking
brake is not set, the system will set it.
The system will then allow the parking brake
to be released when the sensors indicate that an
authorized driver is in full control of the vehicle.
Intellipark also has a function called Trailer Auto-
Park Release. If the driver starts off with the trailer
brake still engaged, the system will issue a warning.
If the driver continues to drive, the system will
release the brake on its own, reducing the chance
for trailer tire flat-spotting, trailer tire fires and wheelend
damage.
The system features an improved interface
that eases the effort of setting the parking brake,
replacing the traditional red and yellow push/pull
knobs — and the “stinging” sensation that came
with using them — with switches. The switches still
have the familiar red and yellow symbols, and the
interface features LED lights, making it easier to see
the status of the parking brakes on both the tractor
and the trailer.
Looking ahead, the next step will be to integrate
Intellipark with the new highway departure system
so that if a driver has a medical emergency or is
otherwise incapacitated, the truck will be able to pull
over, stop and put itself in park.
The Intellipark system is electro-mechanical,
making it easy to integrate with other systems.
Similarly, the upgrades to Wingman Fusion and
BlindSpotter are through improved software rather
than a hardware change, making them easily
attainable by current system users.
“This upgrade is an ideal reflection of the Bendix
approach to these technologies, which envisions
each step as a foundation for the next,” Andersky
said.
He added while these systems allow the truck
to perform more functions: “These are driver-assist
technologies, not driver-replace technologies,” and
while autonomous trucks are somewhere over the
horizon, for the foreseeable future “safe driving
practices and comprehensive driver training are still
the most important safety features out there.”
“‘We’re here to help,” he said. “That’s why we call
our systems Wingman.”
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OWNING THE WHEEL
BY LYNDON FINNEY
ACT: SALE OF NEW CLASS 8 TRUCKS CONTINUED AT
FAST PACE BUT MAY BE FINALLY SLOWING DOWN
The sale of new Class 8 trucks has continued
at an astonishingly applaudable pace as
a result of the strong momentum gained
during the last quarter of 2017, a pace that
continued into 2018 and is finally beginning
to slow just a bit.
According to ACT Research, October 2018
sales totaled 24,427 compared with 24,088 in
September, an increase of 5.6 percent, and
38.7 percent over October 2017 when 18,331
units were sold.
Year-to-date, 207,536 Class 8 units have
been sold compared with 156,699, a gain of
32.4 percent, but ACT Research Vide President
Steve Tam said his company forecast
was that the year-over-year increase, which
has consistently been 32 percent or higher,
would end the year at 30.1 percent.
October sales of Class 8 tractors reached
19,850 compared with 18,659 in September,
an increase of 6.4 percent, and an increase of
49.8 percent over October 2017 tractor sales
of 13,253.
Year-to-date tractor sales have reached
154,185 compared with 108,989 to year-todate
in 2017, an increase of 41.5 percent.
Tam said ACT’s forecast was for a decline
in sales in November and an increase in December.
“Senior leadership and others in management
are conditioned to push for a good yearend
performance,” he said.
Navistar’s fiscal year ended October 31,
2018, which helped October totals.
“Navistar had a very good month,” Tam
said.
Fiscal year for the other OEMs ends December
31, 2018.
Tam said the industry continues to find
itself in a supply-chain crunch, adding there
is a goodly number of “red tagged” trucks,
which sit at the end of the assembly line missing
only a few parts.
Tam also said OEM build rate had dropped
in October and that the backlog had reached
11 months.
There have been some scheduled OEM
shutdowns as a result of seasonal factors, including
deer season.
Navistar’s International nameplate posted
the biggest month-over-month increase at
31.9 percent, selling 4,806 units in October
compared with 3,643 in September, and International
also posted the best year-over-year
with a gain of 71.6 percent. Volvo followed
with an increase of 47.7 percent; Freightliner
was next at 40.2 percent, according to WardsAuto.
International also has the best year-to-date
gain at 62 percent, with 2018 sales of 29,112
compared with 17,973 through 10 months
of 2017. Volvo was next with a gain of 57.2
percent on sales of 21,613 in 2018 compared
with 13,752 in 2017.
Freightliner continues to be the market
share leader in 2018 at 36.1 percent. Peterbilt,
Kenworth and International are neckand-neck
for second with shares of 19.9, 14.6
and 14.3 respectively.
Meanwhile, both ACT and FTR reported
good North American order data for October.
ACT said 43,256 units were ordered in
October, 21 percent better than the year-ago
mark.
“Class 8 net order activity experienced a
second consecutive month of ‘moderation’ in
October, meaning it was below all-time record
highs set in July and August. Demand
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OWNING THE WHEEL
BY DEL WILLIAMS
remains elevated, well above expectations
based on replacement and as justified by the
current economic and freight growth environment,”
Tam said. “Of particular interest
this month is the spike in order cancellations,
which removed about 10,850 orders from the
backlog. As a percentage of the backlog, the
more salient metric in our view, the cancellation
rate was 3.6 percent.”
FTR reports preliminary North American
Class 8 orders for October at 43,000 units,
surpassing 40,000 units for a record eighth
month in a row.
FTR said October 2018 orders were the
10th best ever: 2 percent above a strong September
and 19 percent better than a year ago.
Fleets continue to order a record number of
trucks to secure remaining build slots in 2019,
FTR said, adding that freight volumes are now
expected to be healthy well into the second
half of 2019, keeping capacity utilization at
extremely tight levels for an extended period.
North American Class 8 orders for the past
12 months have now totaled 504,000 units.
“October is traditionally the start of the
next year’s order season, so to see strong
numbers now is not surprising,” said Don
Ake, FTR vice president of commercial vehicles.
“But ordering for 2019 began in July
with back-to-back record months. For orders
to still be this hefty in October after that is
remarkable. Fleets want to make sure they
have access to new trucks, as the growing
economy continues to stretch capacity. They
continue to place a record number of orders
to ensure they will have the trucks needed if
freight levels keep growing.”
Ake said months exceeding 40,000 Class 8
trucks had been a rare occurrence, only happening
five times before 2018.
However, October is the eighth month of
forty-plus orders this year. Activity may start
to fall off soon, as available build slots in
2019 diminish.”
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SUDOKU PUZZLE
Sudoku
How to play: You must complete the Sudoku puzzle so
that within each and every row, column and region, the
numbers one through nine are only written once.
There are 9 rows in a traditional Sudoku puzzle. Every
row must contain the numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8,
and 9. There may not be any duplicate numbers in any
row. In other words, there can not be any rows that are
identical
There are 9 columns in a traditional Sudoku puzzle.
Like the Sudoku rule for rows, every column must also
contain the numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9. Again,
Difficulty: Easy
there may not be any duplicate numbers in any column.
Each column will be unique as a result.
A region is a 3x3 box like the one shown to the left.
There are 9 regions in a traditional Sudoku puzzle.
Like the Sudoku requirements for rows and columns,
every region must also contain the numbers 1, 2, 3, 4,
5, 6, 7, 8, and 9. Duplicate numbers are not permitted
in any region. Each region will differ from the other
regions.
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