Chrysler's New Dodge Ram Heavy Duty Diesel 'Cleanest' on the Market.
ENERGY RESOURCE-23 January 2007-Chrysler's New Dodge Ram Heavy Duty Diesel 'Cleanest' on the Market(C)2007 JeraOne - http://www.jeraone.com The new 2007 Dodge Ram Heavy Duty truck is being hailed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Energy as the cleanest mass-production diesel-engine pickup truck on...

Ditching SUVs and breeding beefalos.
Have high oil prices of late really caused Americans to buy fewer SUVs, or is this just a myth?--Shane Wiener, Royal Oak, Michigan Is it indeed true that sales of sport utility vehicles (SUVs)--not to mention pickup trucks and vans--have plummeted in recent months in the U.S....

Now you see it, now you don't: today's mounting systems allow snowplows to be fully detached, restoring showroom appearance to luxury pickups.
It used to be that pickup trucks were for work. They got dirty, dusty and dented hauling everything from lumber and gravel to tools and small pieces of equipment. If you owned a pickup, you were automatically the designated moving buddy to friends and family. Your truck wasn't glamorous,...

Beware of tykes in trucks. (Journal Scan).
Children seated in the back seat of an extended-cab pickup truck are more than four times as likely to get hurt in a crash than children in the back seats of other vehicles, said Dr. Flaura K. Winston and her colleagues at TraumaLink, the interdisciplinary pediatric trauma research center...

Pick-up step. (Product Roundup).
From Websot Inc. comes the great Step n' Seat, the easiest, safest and most practical way to get in or out of the bed of a pickup truck. This device greatly reduces the risk of back injury by eliminating heavy lifting of bulk cargo into the truck. The non-skid...

Arlo on the Fence.
Arlo Johnson wasn't home the day of the wreck. He was in Muscatine, seeing the ophthalmologist about the progress of his macular degeneration. It had already made so much progress that Arlo was too blind to drive, which is why his son Donald had to take a day off...

Memory's persistence: the living art.
ONCE A YEAR THE CITY OF SANTA FE BECOMES A SHOWCASE FOR HISPANIC ARTISANS WHOSE WORKS PAY TRIBUTE TO THEIR ANCESTORS SANTA FE, New Mexico, shows its Spanish roots in the heart of town where the traditional plaza is anchored by the Palace of Governors. Built in 1610, the...

From great spirit to great steak?
The prairies may be all but gone, but the buffalo still roam in North America - if nothing else, as cash crops raised for meat on former cattle ranches. Indeed, might this noble symbol of the Wild West, held sacred by Native Americans for centuries, be reduced to two-whole-meat-patties-special sauce-lettuce-cheese-onions-pickles-on-a-sesame-seed-bun?...

2009 Nissan Xterra and Frontier Feature New Equipment and Package Offerings.
TRAVEL AND LEISURE CLOSE-UP-9 June 2008-2009 Nissan Xterra and Frontier Feature New Equipment and Package Offerings(C)2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com Nissan North America this week revealed details of the 2009 Xterra sport utility vehicle and 2009 Frontier mid-size pickup, both of which receive numerous refinements for the...

Dear EarthTalk: are there any efforts underway to lessen the environmental impact--which must be considerable--of all the "18 wheelers" and other large vehicles that are numerous on our highways?
According to the Union of Concerned Scientists, although large trucks account for just six percent of total highway miles driven in the U.S., they are responsible for a host of environmental threats. These include over half the soot and a quarter of the smog-causing pollution generated by highway vehicles,...