The Cummins newsroom has discovered a renewable resource that may never run out.
Its own announcements.
On 28 July 2026, the company published a press release announcing “new mining developments” across its QSK60 engine, PrevenTech platform, hybrid-electric haulage programme and a clean-sheet mining engine.
It sounded like Corporate Communications had opened four crates of fresh technology.
Then the dates fell out.
Bad fucking luck.
TCAP owns a calendar.
The hybrid truck had received its first Cummins press release on 11 February. An article about the same programme first appeared in a trade magazine in April before Cummins republished it in July. Meanwhile, Cummins announced the new mining engine to analysts on 21 May.
By late July, February, April and May had been pushed back through the newsroom wearing a new hard hat.
Perhaps Cummins has developed a deliberate strategy to make its publication trail harder for TCAP to follow. Alternatively, its newsroom may simply have been assembled by people who think chronology is an optional extra.
Either explanation is funny.
Neither one works.
Welcome To Dependability, Please Bring A Calendar
The Cummins newsroom currently welcomes readers with the line:
“Welcome to dependability backed by expertise.”
Dependability apparently does not include putting the news in one dependable order.
On 29 July, the main newsroom list began with an article dated 29 July. After that came 16 July, 14 July, 10 July and 8 July.
However, the 28 July mining release sat farther down the page inside a separate “Press Releases” section. A “Life at the Company” panel below that carried an employee story dated 27 July.
Therefore, a reader moving down one page travelled from 29 July to 16 July, back up to 28 July, then down to June, before climbing again to 27 July.
It is less a news feed than a corporate advent calendar assembled during a power cut.
Different content types can have different sections. That is not, by itself, evidence of deception. Nevertheless, the result makes Cummins’ publication sequence needlessly difficult to see.
The Cummins newsroom should help readers establish what happened and when. Instead, the dates sit in separate filing cabinets and the visitor must know which drawer Corporate Communications used.
Convenient for the company?
Certainly.
Successful against TCAP?
Not remotely.
The Trade Article That Changed Its Birthday
The external Cummins newsroom trail adds another little calendar trick.
On 29 July, search results still recorded a Global Mining Review feature called “100 Years of Mining Is Just the Beginning: Cummins Announces Advances in Performance, Efficiency, and Lifecycle Value” under a URL dated 22 July 2026.
That address now returns a 404 error.
Meanwhile, the same title lives under a replacement Global Mining Review URL dated 28 July.
TCAP cannot say who changed the address or why. An embargo correction or ordinary publishing error could explain it.
However, the indexed 22 July trail shows that the package had already left a public footprint six days before the date on Cummins’ release.
Perhaps somebody noticed that “new on 28 July” looked slightly tired after appearing on 22 July.
No matter.
The old address died. The search receipt survived.
Four New Vice Presidents, Already At Their Desks
Five days before the mining package, the Cummins newsroom announced four new vice presidents:
- Erica Baird – Global Sales and Service
- Susan Cleaver – Global Power Generation
- John Havenaar – Total Rewards
- Brad Sutton – Powertrain Engineering
The promotions take effect on 1 August. Therefore, the higher executive rank is genuine new information.
However, Cummins’ own release describes Baird, Havenaar and Sutton as already leading the organisations attached to their new titles. Cleaver “now leads” Global Power Generation.
In other words, Cummins announced four promotions by explaining that the promoted people were already sitting behind the relevant desks.
That is not a scandal. It is an internal badge ceremony inflated into a growth narrative.
Naturally, Jennifer “Jen” Rumsey supplied the compulsory plate of commitments, momentum, experience, expertise, future growth and stakeholder value. Not one reporting line, predecessor or structural change disturbed the abstract nouns.
Four people received new executive rank. Corporate Communications treated it like the discovery of management.
The release also handed TCAP four full names, four exact job titles and four fresh search terms.
Thank you for your service.
Who Is Actually Running Cummins?
Which raises the obvious question:
Are these the vice presidents actually running Cummins while Jennifer Rumsey attends the parties, poses for the photo opportunities and moonlights on 3M’s board?
The 3M part is not a joke.
3M elected Rumsey to its Board of Directors effective 5 June 2026. It also placed her on the Science, Technology and Sustainability Committee.
Serving as an outside director is neither unusual nor secret at chief-executive altitude. Nevertheless, the timing improves the organisational comedy.
Cummins promotes four people into vice-president roles attached largely to organisations they already lead. Meanwhile, the Cummins Chair and CEO adds another public-company boardroom, another committee seat and another supply of innovation, growth and long-term-value language.
Perhaps that is the operating model.
The vice presidents run the company.
Jennifer Rumsey attends the narrative.
Or maybe the parties are strategic stakeholder engagements and the photographs are critical exercises in visible leadership.
Corporate Communications can announce the details later this year.
February Puts On A July Hard Hat
The clearest recycled item in the 28 July mining release concerns the Caserones mine in Chile.
Cummins said 2026 marked a “critical year” because a pilot was under way using the world’s first commercial hybrid-electric ultra-class mining truck in production. The system combines a diesel drivetrain with First Mode battery technology and aims to reduce fuel use and emissions by up to 30%.
Unfortunately, the world first had already happened.
On 11 February, Cummins issued a dedicated press release announcing the deployment at Lundin Mining’s Caserones copper-molybdenum mine. That earlier release identified the retrofitted 300-ton Komatsu truck, the QSK60 diesel engine, the First Mode system, the high-altitude conditions and the same potential 30% reduction.
The July package did not uncover a second world-first truck beneath the first one.
It announced the same pilot again.
A world first can happen once. A Cummins world first can apparently complete several laps of the content calendar.
First February, Then April, Then July, Then July Again
Cummins had already given the hybrid programme another outing before the 28 July release.
On 14 July, its newsroom published “Hybrid haulage, proven in the world’s harshest mines”. To its credit, Cummins placed an admission above the article:
“Originally published in the April 2026 issue of Power Progress.”
That label matters. It tells readers that the July page contains April material.
It also confirms the wider pattern.
The same Caserones programme produced:
- An 11 February Cummins press release.
- An April article in Power Progress.
- A 14 July Cummins republication of that April article.
- A 28 July Cummins package presenting the pilot among “new mining developments”.
One truck has now hauled more Cummins copy than rock.
Elsewhere, Cummins has started fitting recycling labels to other reheated pages. Its diesel-history article now admits that Cummins originally published it in April 2023 before updating it in July 2026.
That is progress of a sort.
TCAP catches the newsroom serving leftovers, and the next batch arrives with the original cooking date attached.
Republishing useful technical material is legitimate. Recapping earlier progress can also make sense. Yet a company that uses the word “new” should identify which part is actually new.
Cummins does not say, “Here is an update on the pilot we announced in February”.
Instead, it places the old milestone on a fresh platter and lets the July date do the seasoning.
May’s New Engine Gets Another Launch
The clean-sheet mining engine also arrived with a previous announcement attached.
During Cummins’ Analyst Day on 21 May, Power Systems President Jenny Bush told investors that the company was “launching a new mining engine” for the 100-tonne truck market. She said it would become available at the beginning of 2027.
Analysts even asked about the engine during the question-and-answer session. Bush explained that it would focus mainly on haul-truck duty cycles and markets including Indonesian coal.
Then came the 28 July release.
This time, Cummins said field testing was under way for an “all-new, clean-sheet engine platform” aimed primarily at 90-to-120-ton haul trucks and 150-to-220-ton excavators.
The field-testing status and wider application detail may be new. The engine announcement is not.
Adding technical measurements does not issue a new birth certificate.
Cummins launched the engine to investors in May, then introduced it to newsroom readers in July as part of a series of new developments. Apparently, the product needed separate christenings for people who read transcripts and people who read press releases.
TCAP reads both.
Awkward.
The PrevenTech Update With No Update
Next came PrevenTech, Cummins’ remote engine-monitoring platform.
According to the July release, a platform update planned for the third quarter will improve how maintenance issues are identified and managed.
Which new capabilities will it add?
Cummins does not say.
How will the prioritisation work?
No details.
What has testing shown?
Nothing appears.
The section ends with the magnificent sentence:
“More information will be released later this year.”
So one of Cummins’ four “new developments” is an announcement that Cummins plans to provide the development later.
The product launch has become a film trailer for another press release.
Only days earlier, TCAP examined Cummins’ anonymous Elko gold-mining case study, in which PrevenTech allegedly protected up to $1 million of production value every hour. Cummins supplied no customer name, mine name or calculation connecting one QSK60 exhaust valve to the site-wide figure.
Now the platform itself receives the same treatment.
New capabilities exist.
Details have entered witness protection.
Trust the machine. Await the brochure.
The QSK60 Gets Percentages, The Copy Gets Injured
The 2027 QSK60 section may contain the freshest material in the release.
Cummins projects up to a 3% improvement in total cost of ownership, up to a 16% improvement in lifecycle cost and maintenance-cost reductions above 50% in certain circumstances.
Those are substantial forecasts. However, the release supplies no test report, baseline cost model or worked customer example.
Instead, it adds broad caveats covering application, duty cycle, operating conditions, maintenance practices and configuration.
That familiar corporate recipe allows the headline number to enter through the front door while every reason it may not apply slips in behind the curtains.
Then the copy itself throws a con rod.
The release refers to delivering value across the “installed based”. Presumably, the installed base had gone home early.
Another sentence says:
“Life to overhaul is projected to extend by 5 to 10% of fuel consumed.”
Life to overhaul can be assessed using fuel consumption because fuel burn reflects engine work. Yet this sentence does not explain a baseline or unit. It says life will extend “by” a percentage “of” fuel consumed, leaving the reader to rebuild the meaning on the workshop floor.
Perhaps Cummins meant that the engine could consume 5% to 10% more fuel before overhaul. If so, those words were available.
Nobody used them.
A company that reported $33.7 billion in 2025 sales published an announcement about engineering precision without tightening the language bolts.
Corporate Communications found time to recycle February. Copy inspection remained outside the maintenance schedule.
If This Is A Tactic, It Is A Shit One
TCAP cannot prove that Cummins designed this newsroom structure specifically to frustrate TCAP.
Fortunately, it does not need to.
If the Cummins newsroom uses scattered dates, recycled articles and repackaged announcements as a deliberate tactic, the tactic failed. The February release, April publication note and May Analyst Day transcript took little time to find.
Search engines keep receipts. Trade publications create a syndication trail. Regional Cummins pages multiply the URLs. Investor transcripts preserve the words executives used before Corporate Communications reheated them.
Every attempted layer creates another layer to search.
Alternatively, suppose there is no tactic. In that case, Cummins has simply built a newsroom that makes its own record look evasive while repeatedly announcing old material as new.
That is hardly a better defence.
Intent changes the diagnosis, not the comedy.
Either Cummins PR is running from TCAP and tripping over the calendar, or Cummins PR naturally walks like this.
The Cummins Newsroom Keeps Feeding The Critic
The company faces a basic problem.
Fresh employee profiles give TCAP fresh employee names. Customer case studies supply customers, projects and claims. Product releases create exact technical keyphrases. Recycled articles provide a second date and an earlier source.
Even the gaps become useful.
An anonymous customer invites identification. An unexplained number demands arithmetic. A missing surname starts a search. A July “development” sends TCAP into February.
Cummins may believe that volume will bury scrutiny.
Instead, volume supplies the research queue.
The company is not starving TCAP of material. It is operating a fucking home-delivery service.
They Only Needed To Act Like An Honest Company
Here is the funniest and most pathetic part.
None of these tactics would be necessary if Cummins had simply acted like an honest company.
TCAP did not fall from the sky and select a random engine manufacturer. Cummins created the conditions for it. A finite dispute could have received candour, accountability and a fair resolution. Instead, the corporation chose the machinery of denial, attrition and institutional self-protection.
In return, it created a permanent, document-led critic who learned litigation, research, publishing and SEO.
That was an astonishingly stupid trade.
Cummins did not need a more complicated newsroom. It needed a straight answer.
The company did not need recycled filler, employee upholstery or dates distributed across separate content lanes. It needed to stop behaving in ways that made an accountability project necessary.
Nor can Cummins dismiss honesty as an abstract complaint from one disgruntled former employee.
In 2024, the EPA said Cummins configured emissions software features to act as defeat devices and failed to disclose other software features. The settlement covered 630,000 vehicles with illegal defeat-device software and roughly 330,000 more with undisclosed auxiliary emission-control devices.
Cummins agreed to a record $1.675 billion Clean Air Act civil penalty. The total settlement cost exceeded $2 billion.
That is not TCAP rhetoric.
That is the United States government’s filing cabinet.
A corporation with that record should be unusually careful with the words “new”, “transparent” and “trust”.
Instead, February keeps walking into July wearing sunglasses.
Cummins PR Cannot Outrun Its Own Receipts
The Cummins newsroom may carry on publishing as though TCAP has changed nothing.
It can split its newsroom into content lanes. Old trade pieces can return with fresh page dates and recycling labels. Earlier launches can join later packages. Future software details can masquerade as present developments.
None of it removes the record.
TCAP will check the first publication date, the investor transcript, the trade version, the regional duplicate and the sentence Cummins hoped nobody would read slowly.
The company could have prevented all of this with the cheapest communications strategy ever devised:
Tell the truth.
Act fairly.
Correct the record.
Resolve the problem.
Had Cummins behaved like an honest company, TCAP would not exist.
Instead, it created the critic, supplies the evidence and now appears unable to publish a fucking mining update without leaving earlier versions scattered across the internet.
Lying bastards.
Terrible archivists.
Lee Thompson – Founder, The Cummins Accountability Project
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