Kenworth News Updates

A new Kenworth W990 has the honor of hauling the 54th U.S. Capitol Christmas Tree. The approximately 3,000-mile journey to Washington will start Nov. 9.

Kenworth Truck Co. introduced the W990, a new long-hood conventional Class 8 tractor.

Baltimore is the newest addition to Kenworth’s dealer network, opening Kenworth Mid Atlantic through a partnership between Tri-State Kenworth and Chesapeake Truck.

Sioux City Kenworth has moved its full-service dealership to a new building located on a major truck route in Sioux City, Iowa.

Kenworth Truck Co. announced a major milestone at its Renton, Wash., truck plant, and the availability of the Cummins Westport ISX12N Near Zero natural gas engine in certain models.

Kenworth Truck Co. announced two features are now standard on its flagship T680 on-highway truck.

LONG BEACH, Calif. — Kenworth Truck Co. unveiled for the first time a prototype T680 tractor equipped with a parallel hybrid-electric propulsion system that is part of California’s Hybrid Electric Cargo Transport demonstration project.

Performance Truck has moved its full-service Kenworth location in Victoria, Texas, to a newly renovated building that is more than double the size of the dealership’s previous store.

Kenworth Truck Co. announced that its T680 on-highway flagship Class 8 is now available for order for the first time with the combination of the Paccar MX-11 engine and the new Paccar automated transmission.

MOUNT VERNON, Wash. — Kenworth Truck Co. is wrapping up tests on a zero-emissions hydrogen-electric Class 8 truck that will be operating in drayage applications in Southern California by the end of March, company executives said.