The long haul news is in from Navistar International’s third-party testing of its ProStar+ tractor with a 2010-legal MaxxForce 13 diesel and the results are probably going to surprise a heavy haul specialist or two. According to the professionals who conducted the third-party tests, ProStar+ tractor with a 2010 MaxxForce 13 diesel engine proved to be more efficient than two other major competitors when both fuel and diesel exhaust fluid are added into the final equation. A claim that will of course have to be verified by other independent sources that if true is going to change the landscape for Navistar International and its competitors in the business of heavy-duty truck manufacturing and the business of freight trucking in the United States of America in the years ahead in the century of the environment.
Sources indicate that the formal on-road tests were conducted earlier in the summer of 2010 on the transport roads of Indiana and pitted a MaxxForce 13-powered ProStar+ against a Freightliner Cascadia with a Detroit Diesel DD15 and a Kenworth T660 with a Cummins ISX15. What were the final results of this heads up test of one freight shipping transport against another? The scientists in charge of the on-road tests concluded after significant time on the road that the MaxxForce 13-powered ProStar+ used about 0.9 percent less fluid than the Fereightliner Cascadia with a Detroit Diesel DD15. In addition to using about 2.5 percent less fluid than the Kenworth T660 with a Cummins ISX15, which is certainly going to surprise quite a few Kenworth drivers.
This is great news for Navistar International and the freight shipping industry of the United States of America, and a kind of ringing of the bell for Navistar International’s competitors, which are certainly going to have to answer the bell with some new products that meet or exceed the standards set by Navistar International’s ProStar+ tractor with a MaxxForce 13 diesel engine. Navistar International isn’t finished the on-roads tests of the MaxxForce 13, either, as sources indicate that will be conducting more on-road tests later this year, in anticipation for going to full production sometime in 2011.