The Kenworth truck assembly plant in Chillicothe, Ohio celebrated 50 years of building the World’s Best® trucks in March. The plant officially opened on March 4, 1974, and the plant’s first truck – a Kenworth W900 – rolled off the assembly line a day later. Since then, Kenworth Chillicothe plant employees have produced more than […]
A Kenworth T280 concrete pump truck, donated for sale in January at the Concrete Industry Management (CIM) annual auction at World of Concrete, produced a major financial contribution to the CIM education program, thanks to Kenworth, Alliance Concrete Pumps, Papé Kenworth, and other Kenworth supplier partners. “We’ve been looking to add a line pump truck […]
Nominations Now Open in Search for America’s Top Rookie Military Veteran Driver; Grand-Prize Truck Showcased at This Week’s Mid-America Trucking Show Kenworth, FASTPORT and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation’s Hiring Our Heroes initiative are again partnering in the search for America’s top rookie military veteran driver who successfully transitioned to the trucking industry following […]
In a ceremony at Kenworth’s Chillicothe plant in February, Kenworth delivered the first T680 daycab with a 15-liter natural gas engine to UPS. Anthony Marshall, UPS’s vice president of maintenance and engineering, and Dennis Elford, its director of maintenance and engineering, received keys to the truck from Kevin Haygood, Kenworth assistant general manager for sales […]
Truckworx Kenworth received the prestigious 2023 Kenworth Dealer of the Year Award for the United States and Canada at the annual Kenworth Dealer Meeting in Ojai, Calif. in February. The meeting’s theme was “Charging Ahead” and focused on technician training and connected services as pathways to provide superior customer uptime and continuing to drive the […]
