Demountable Concepts Forms Strategic Alliance with NetLogistik
Demountable Concepts, Inc. is capitalizing on a strategic alliance with NetLogistik of Mexico City and over twenty years experience as North America’s leading supplier of demountable truck body systems to increase utilization of their delivery and distribution systems in Mexico ...
Oshkosh Defense Receives $290 Million Order From Army
Oshkosh Corporation (NYSE: OSK) announced that its Defense division has received a delivery order valued at more than $290 million from the U.S. Army Tank-automotive and Armaments Command Life Cycle Management Command (TACOM LCMC) to deliver more than 725 next-generation Palletized Load Systems (PLS) A1. The order was issued under the U.S. Army’s existing Family of Heavy Tactical Vehicles (FHTV) contract. Production will begin in April 2010 and be completed in September 2011...
Navistar Defense Wins Foreign Military Sale from Israel
Navistar Defense LLC today announced that it has made a new foreign military sale to the Israel Ministry of Defense. Under the $12 million contract, Navistar will deliver 114 medium tactical vehicles by June 2010...
Thomas Takes Order For SCR School Buses
Thomas Built Buses, Daimler Trucks North America’s school bus operation, recently announced that the company has received an order for 59 Saf-T-Liner HDX school buses. The contract, with Montgomery County, MD, is the first major order for model year 2010 buses with SCR technology received by Thomas Built. The buses will be delivered to Montgomery County public schools during the summer of 2010...
Rebate Offered By Kenworth To OOIDA Members
Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association (OOIDA) members looking to purchase Kenworth trucks in 2010 can take advantage of a special $1,500 rebate Kenworth Truck Co. is offering...
Raymond's Swing-Reach forklifts take energy-saving to new heights
Raymond Corporation's new 9000 series Swing-Reach forklifts come with a range of energy-saving devices, including regenerative lowering that automatically...
Component manufacturers news
With the completion of SAF-Holland's new financing agreement, Dr Reiner Beutel has stepped down as chief executive officer and member of the board of...
PREVIEW: The Work Truck Show & NTEA Convention
BY RICK WEBER
You might know it for its nicknames: Gateway to the West, Gateway City, or Mound City...
Trailer, truck, & body OEM news from the industry
Mack Trucks Inc has named Curtis Dorwart vocational marketing product manager. He reports to Michael Reardon, Mack vice-president of marketing...
Truck bodies, trailers debut at ICUEE
BY BRUCE SAUER
More than 16,500 attendees the second-most on record saw the latest truck bodies, trailers, and truck equipment designed for the construction and utility markets...
Book tells how to achieve Safety for the Long Haul
The American Trucking Associations (ATA) has released Safety for the Long Haul, a comprehensive text on large-truck safety...
ATA Truck Tonnage Index Jumps 2.7% in November
The American Trucking Associations' advance seasonally adjusted (SA) For-Hire Truck Tonnage Index increased 2.7 percent in November, following a 0.2 percent contraction in October...
Ramsey Industries Tries to Reorganize
Tulsa-based winch and crane maker Ramsey Industries Inc. is attempting to reorganize under bankruptcy protection, according to the Tulsa World...
Recession, Recovery Blend in for Manufacturers
By Dr. Chris Kuehl
The 2009 recession has been replaced by the 2010 recovery but thus far it is hard to tell one from another. If this is the year of recovery, what will that mean for manufacturers? How will this coming year be judged? ...
Palfinger Forms New Distribution Company
The Palfinger North America Group has announced the formation of Paltec Truck Equipment Company, which will begin business on January 1...
Commercial Trailer Net Orders Drop from October
November net orders for commercial trailers declined 27 percent from a strong October performance, but posted a 73 percent gain over November 2008, according to ACT Research Co. (ACT), the premier source of analysis in the market for commercial trucks and trailers...
Buyers Products Acquires Assets Of Lotridge Rubber Company
The owners of Buyers Products Company have announced the acquisition of certain operating assets of Lotridge Rubber Company of Botkins, Ohio...
NHTSA Proposes Changes to Bus Emergency Exits
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has issued an NPRM that proposes two housekeeping measures relating to Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard (FMVSS) No. 217, “Bus emergency exits and window retention and release.”...
Net Income Up for Navistar in 2009
In the face of the worst truck market in 47 years, Navistar International Corporation (NYSE: NAV) delivered strong fourth-quarter net income, resulting in net income of $320 million for the fiscal year ended Oct. 31, 2009...
China’s Economic Rebound Driving Increased Need for Commercial Vehicles
The China heavy- and medium-duty commercial vehicle (CV) markets continued to grow during the third quarter of 2009, as infrastructure investment and the beginning of a rebound in exports drove increased demand for trucks, according to a report published by ACT Research Co., LLC, (ACT) and China's State Information Center ...
IMT Expands into New Manufacturing Facility
Iowa Mold Tooling Co. Inc. (IMT), an Oshkosh Corporation company (NYSE:OSK), announced that it has expanded its manufacturing operations into McIntire, Iowa, by opening a new facility to handle its increased welding activities. The plant opening created about 40 welding jobs. IMT has also hired more welders at its main facility in Garner, Iowa...
Navistar to Invest in Danish Technology Company
With Navistar’s choice of Advanced EGR to satisfy 2010 EPA emissions standards, the company needed a technology that could help reduce NOx emissions. It’s found that solution in the form of Amminex...
Volvo to Test Biomethane Gas Truck
By Brian Straight, Fleet Owner managing editor
Volvo Trucks will be testing a biomethane gas truck that increases energy consumption compared to traditional gas trucks while providing the same power and driveability as a diesel vehicle. The trucks will be tested in Sweden and the UK in 2010...
Cummins Names Freeland New Engine Chief
By David Cullen, Fleet Owner executive editor
Cummins Inc. has named Rich Freeland as the next president of the company’s Engine Business operation...
FMCSA Earns Praise for Enforcing New-Entrant Rule
By Sean Kilcarr, Fleet Owner senior editor
The trucking industry is vocally supporting the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s (FMCSA) move to begin enforcing its New Entrant Safety Assurance Process rule. The rule requires newly registered truck and bus companies to meet stricter safety requirements...
