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Million-Mile Truck Owner Steve Jones
Big loads are no problem for million-mile truck owner Steve Jones and his team at Cats Heavy Haul. With Cat® engines powering three of the trucks in their fleet, they can haul nine-axle loads at 187,000 pounds — transporting big mining, construction and forestry machines across Canada's vast landscape.
By Caterpillar | Posted: January 2024
Out of retirement, onto a rebuild
A family-run business, Cats Heavy Haul has been moving equipment across Canada and the Yukon for more than three decades. In this tough environment, power and reliability matter.
Company owner Steve Jones gets both out of his Cat on-highway truck engines. He and his drivers count on three trucks powered by C15 engines to handle much of the work: a 1997 Kenworth W900B, a 2000 Kenworth W900L and a 2007 Kenworth W900B.
In the spring of 2023, the engine in the 1997 Kenworth topped one million miles, and Jones got in touch with the team at Inland Kenworth about rebuilding it.
They in turn contacted Kevin Proke, a retired technician who takes on special projects for former customers — but only if those projects involve Cat on-highway truck engines. He came out of retirement to rebuild the C15 for Cats Heavy Haul.
When his other two C15s hit the million-mile mark, Jones is hoping Proke will take another break from retirement to rebuild them, too — so they can keep on making heavy hauls across the tundra.
Cats Heavy Haul's 2000 Kenworth W900L hits the road with another big load. The truck gets all the power it needs from a Cat C15 on-highway truck engine, recently rebuilt after hitting the one-million-mile mark.
