Cummins Confidential : The Brief Is Not The Fucking Article
Cummins publishes a technical FAQ and repeatedly explains its own editorial priorities. The diesel division gets protection. The communications team gets roasted.
Cummins Confidential
Cummins Confidential is the independent Cummins news and investigations series from The Cummins Accountability Project (TCAP). We examine Cummins Inc. beyond the corporate press releases, glossy sustainability claims and carefully managed newsroom narratives.
From diesel emissions scandals, employee treatment, recalls and financial results to employment practices, executive conduct, Destination Zero and corporate accountability, Cummins Confidential compares the company’s public messaging with the documentary record.
Expect independent scrutiny, evidence-led investigations, sharp satire and the occasional magnificent corporate own goal. Every edition challenges the official narrative, distinguishes documented facts from editorial opinion and invites factual corrections.
Cummins has its newsroom. TCAP has a few questions.
And we are not particularly interested in the approved answers.
Cummins Confidential : The S29 – A Kilometre Of Bollocks And A Late Arrival
Cummins has unveiled the S29 mining engine, but its own product page disagrees about altitude performance. Add a changed availability timetable and unproven development targets, and the celebratory launch begins looking rather less polished.
Cummins Confidential : Michael Abbott, Natalie Morton And The Milton Keynes Neutrality Trick
I asked Cummins for somebody neutral after losing faith in Darlington HR. Michael Abbott took over from Milton Keynes. Later, I discovered his previous professional connection to Natalie Morton — and kept it to myself until now.
Cummins Confidential : Tom Linebarger, The Rulebook And The $1.675 Billion Punchline
Tom Linebarger argued that environmental rules needed strict enforcement while Cummins promoted tougher regulations as a competitive advantage. TCAP follows the regulatory warnings, the $1.675 billion settlement, his retirement and the revealing executive compensation records.
Cummins Confidential : Hanifat Popoola And The Corporate Quality Blender
Cummins has found another employee doing a perfectly respectable job and fed her through the corporate communications mincer. This week’s
Cummins Confidential : Three-Way Catalyst – The Questions They Didn’t Ask
Cummins explains its X15N three-way catalyst. TCAP examines its engineers’ research, methane emissions and the company’s $1.675bn settlement.
Cummins Confidential : Flex Module – Ten Kilowatts Of Hot Air And A Regulatory Ghost
Picture a school bus on a freezing Indiana morning. The driver turns the key, the diesel engine coughs into life,
Cummins Confidential : Hybrid Haulage – Three Chilean Mines And A Planet-Sized Sales Pitch
At 4,500 metres above sea level, somewhere in the Chilean Andes, a Komatsu 930E mining truck confronts a problem engineers
Cummins Confidential : Lea P., Tony Cheverall And Thierry Pimi – The Corporate Purpose Pit
At Cummins, the production line doesn’t stop at engines. Somewhere inside the communications department, another conveyor belt takes ordinary human