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Whether by choice or by necessity, traveling, sleeping and even living fulltime in vans has become part of the fabric of American life. Social media abounds with stories and photos. The Instagram hashtag #vanlife has accumulated more than 12 million … Continue reading →

Heavy-duty trucks run on heavy-duty fuel: diesel. These days, more than 95 percent of the big trucks on the road run on diesel fuel. But it took a while for diesel engines to take hold. Rudolf Diesel went from being … Continue reading →

Imagine the United States as a body, with the highway system as its veins and arteries. The blood made up of middle- and heavy-duty trucks, delivering the goods we need while carrying our waste away.  The precursors of trucks were … Continue reading →

There’s a time and a place for everything, and Colorado’s auto dealers think that Sunday is not the time for their businesses to be open. Not surprisingly, their refusal to go along with the rest of the retail world has … Continue reading →

Transportation planners are in a pickle. They want people to abandon cars in favor of walking, bicycling or public transit. Meanwhile, a deadly disease – COVID-19 – is raging through America, and people wisely are staying in their cars for … Continue reading →

As the rest of the industrialized world struggled to recover from World War II, America’s economy experienced one of the greatest surges in history. The GIs were home, families were growing, housing development was going suburban and everyone wanted an … Continue reading →

The 2020 cancellation of most of America’s major auto shows because of COVID-19 was a blow to both auto enthusiasts and the automotive industry. The Denver Auto Show, staged annually by the Colorado Automobile Dealers Association, scheduled for the Colorado … Continue reading →

If you think about it, the first recreational vehicles (RVs) – ones that could be “lived” in, or at least slept in – really belonged to snails and hermit crabs. Perhaps it was from observing these examples from nature that … Continue reading →