He’s an engineer who’s been around the scene since the beginning, and during our phone conversation, he let slip an interesting piece of info: He stewards the world’s first truck to run on ...

Mind, this was before the Dodge Ram pickup truck, which was only introduced about three years later in 1981. As with the first-gen Cummins engines ... with Chrysler's own diesel engines (1939 ...

The first-gen Cummins Ram was sold from 1989 until 1993 and was an immediate hit in the diesel truck market, selling 16,750 units the first year and surpassing Dodge's sales projections.