Across the many sub-industries of trucking and transportation, where drivers are often hard to find and keep, some technologies Eaton has available on its commercial transmissions that allow precise ...

Kenworth Truck Co. is offering Eaton Corp.’s UltraShift Plus Vocational Active Shifting transmission as an option in its T370, T440 and T470 medium-duty models equipped with the Paccar PX-9 engine.

Eaton has been working on automated transmissions for about 40 years, and the going has been slow because there is nothing simple about making a manual gearbox shift itself. Work began with a military ...

Kenworth now offers the 10-speed Eaton UltraShift Plus VAS transmission for its T370, T440 and T470 equipped with the 8.9-liter Paccar PX-9 engine. According to the company, the Eaton UltraShift Plus ...

Eaton Corp. on Wednesday, Sept. 9, launched its next generation of automated transmissions known as UltraShift Plus. Eaton says the new family of fully automated transmissions features new automated ...

Using the Urge to Move feature, the UltraShift Plus and Detroit DD16 diesel repeatedly started this 125,000-pound rig on a 15% upgrade, though it stalled on the first try. The demo driver said, “This ...

Over the years, engineers at Eaton have been refining their automated mechanical transmissions (AMTs). In that time, I’ve driven and judged them from a driver’s perspective, and praised and criticized ...

The UltraShift PLUS offers an alternative to traditional manual or automatic transmissions. Recommended for construction, refuse, municipal pickup and delivery, and agricultural applications, the ...

Several trucks in Peterbilt's stable of natural gas powered vehicles can now be ordered with the Eaton UltraShift Plus automated manual transmission and a Cummins Westport ISX12 G engine. These ...