Milestones

It was in 1938 that Detroit set out with one focus: crafting top-tier engines for heavy- and medium-duty trucks. Now Detroit is a North American leader in engine technology for commercial vehicles, and a part […] More

The year was 1923. The logging industry in the Pacific Northwest was booming. Harry Kent and Edgar K. Worthington sought to find a way to more efficiently move heavy loads down winding, narrow, and muddy […] More

A brand as well known in the work truck industry as Morgan Truck Body didn’t get where it is today overnight. The success story began back in 1952 when a man named Elton Mountz opened a […] More

Who knew a tricycle powered by a one-cylinder gasoline engine built in 1897 would lead to Autocar’s “BADASS” severe-duty vocational dump truck in 2021? Probably not Louis Semple Clarke, inventor of the aforementioned tricycle—dubbed the […] More

This year Continental celebrates its 150th anniversary. The company was founded in Hannover, Germany, in 1871, and over the next 15 decades, Continental transformed from a manufacturer of tires and rubber products to an international […] More

The end of the Great Depression probably doesn’t sound like the best time to start a new business, right? But that’s exactly what Louis Conne did in July 1935. He founded Muncie Parts Manufacturing Company, […] More

Changing irrigation engine oil can become a cacophony of empty five-gallon buckets rolling around the bed of a pickup with the remaining dregs of some of those containers creating an oil slick covering just about […] More

The treatment and inclusion of women in the workplace has drastically improved since the first observance of International Women’s Day in 1911. Yet there is still a long way to go. To help Modern WorkTruck […] More

Who is A.R.E. Accessories and how has the brand survived for 50 years? It is no easy task to start, grow, and transform a business over a 50-year period, but that is exactly what A.R.E. […] More

Adam Wright was a professional race car driver in the 1990s and later became the business development manager at the prestigious Mid-Ohio School for racing. Roger McPeek, an industrial designer, was managing the graphics program […] More