Why would the interior of a 1942 REO one and-a-half ton dump truck, last week's Guess the Vehicle, have cotter key-like pins? The keys were used to count loads, wrote Tom Crawford in an e-mail.

Milk trucks have been around since the early days of the automobile. Simply because milk, like any other popular product, had to be hauled from the producer to the companies that put it in bottles and ...

A long-abandoned 1966 Diamond Reo dump truck is inspected and tested to see if decades of inactivity can be overcome. Will it ...

An old-line heavy truck series is back. "T-Line" trucks, the most recent iteration of vehicles rooted in Diamond T and Reo trucks dating to the early 20th century, include three models offered by ...

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