Navistar Acquires Engine Components Business from Continental
Navistar, Inc., concluded an agreement to acquire certain assets and the membership interests of Continental Diesel Systems US, LLC, to manufacture key fuel injection components for its MaxxForce diesel engines. The company also will establish a dedicated research and development facility to support Navistar’s diesel power system components...
Kinedyne Opens Plant In Nantong, China
Located in the port city of Nantong, the new complex includes four distinct buildings, covering more than 200,000 square feet. The facility will now serve as the base of operations for more than 300 of the company’s employees, who will support the company’s manufacturing, quality control, engineering and supply chain management activities in the region...
SmartWay Trailer Regulation to Take Effect January 1
Beginning Jan. 1, 2010, no 2011 or subsequent model year 53’ or longer box-type trailer (dry, refrigerated or curtainside vans) may be pulled by a heavy-duty tractor on a highway in California unless it is either SmartWay-certified or has been retrofitted with equipment to meet SmartWay technical requirements and specifications...
Mack Receives Three More Orders From Army
Mack Trucks, Inc. has received three additional delivery orders for MACK Vision Elite model tractors from the U.S. Army TACOM Life Cycle Management Command. The orders are part of a three-year $28.5 million contract for 152 heavy-duty tractors and trailers, as well as spare parts...
ACOFAS to Chair Workshops at HDAW’10
ACOFAS has been selected to chair the Thursday Education Workshops to be held at HDAW’10 in January 2010 at the Mirage Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada. ...
Volvo Trucks, Mack to Merge
Mack Trucks and Volvo Trucks North America will merge on Sunday into a single organization called North American Trucks to sharpen efficiency, according to the Allentown Morning Call....
Central Michigan Kenworth Opens Lansing Location
Central Michigan Kenworth was recently opened in Lansing to enhance customer support following the conversion of the dealership from another truck manufacturer to Kenworth...
ATA Responds to FMCSA’s HOS rewrite
FMCSA announced Tuesday that it will completely rewrite the 2008 HOS regulations that are currently in effect. FMCSA officials said the agency will issue a notice of proposed rulemaking within nine months and a final rule in less than two years. The agency will continue to enforce the current HOS rules until the new regulation takes effect...
Eaton Takes Lead Role in Hybrid Truck Users Forum
Eaton Corporation will take a leadership role at the Hybrid Truck Users Forum (HTUF) National Conference Oct. 27-29 in Atlanta. During the conference, five Eaton experts will serve as panelists on key educational and technical sessions...
HDAW’10 Features Value Proposition For Distributors
Heavy-duty distributors will learn strategies and tactics to promote their value proposition to customers and prospects at one of many education sessions during Heavy Duty Aftermarket Week (HDAW ’10) January 18-21 at The Mirage in Las Vegas. ...
VT SVC Receives Order For 248 Kidron Refrigerated Truck Bodies
VT SVC Inc, a subsidiary of VT Systems Inc., announced that it has received an order for 248 Kidron Ultra Temp hybrid refrigeration truck bodies. The bodies were ordered by Idealease Inc., on behalf of its client Schwan Food Company. The 248 units are the largest single Ultra Temp order to date with deliveries beginning in the fourth quarter of 2009...
Marmon Highway Technologies to Hold Expo in Arkansas
Marmon Highway Technologies (MHT) is bringing “Ideas in Motion: The Marmon Highway Technologies Innovation Expo” to Northwest Arkansas Nov. 18-19....
Redwood Reliance Closes Its Doors
Redwood Reliance Sales Co., a 95-year-old Cotati, California, company that sold Peterbilt trucks and Reliance trailers, has shut down after seeking bankruptcy protection earlier this year, according to the Santa Rosa Press Democrat...
Kögel, Ekeri Receive Order For More Than 900 Vehicles
The Norwegian Postal Service has ordered 907 new semi-trailers, bodies and trailers from the Kögel and Ekeri partnership for its two logistics divisions, Bring Logistics and Bring Frigoscandia...
European Commercial Vehicle Registrations Down 35% This Year
New commercial vehicle registrations in Europe were down 27.7% in September compared to the same month in 2008, declining for the seventeenth consecutive month, according to the European Automobile Manufacturers' Association (ACEA)....
Cat Implements Workforce Actions to Align Production With Demand
Caterpillar Inc. (NYSE: CAT) announced plans to selectively align production levels with demand and resource requirements. Caterpillar has already started bringing some laid off employees back to work at various facilities, and based on current demand schedules, the company expects to return other employees to jobs as demand increases in the coming months...
ATA Truck Tonnage Index Slips 0.3% In September
The American Trucking Associations’ advance seasonally adjusted (SA) For-Hire Truck Tonnage Index decreased 0.3 percent in September, after increasing 2.1 percent in both July and August...
Cat Outlines Leadership Succession Plan
The Board of Directors of Caterpillar Inc. (NYSE: CAT) elected Douglas R. Oberhelman to the offices of Vice Chairman and Chief Executive Officer-Elect, effective January 1, 2010...
ATA Says Cap-and-Trade Will Increase Costs But Won't Reduce Truck Emissions
Proposed cap-and-trade legislation will impose significant costs on the trucking industry and all consumers while doing little to reduce carbon emissions from trucking, American Trucking Associations (ATA) First Vice-Chairman Barbara Windsor said today at a press conference on Capitol Hill...
Trailer 2009 Survives Economic Downturn
Trailer 2009 will be held Nov. 20-24 at Kortrijk Expo in Kortrijk, Belgium, drawing together professionals from the world of haulage, logistic services and related activities...
Rush Enterprise’s 3Q Gross Revenues Down 26%
Rush Enterprises, Inc. (NASDAQ: RUSHA & RUSHB) today announced that in the third quarter ended September 30, 2009, the company’s gross revenues totaled $302.4 million, a 26.9% decrease from gross revenues of $413.7 million reported for the third quarter ended September 30, 2008. ...
Fontaine Unveils New Home For Fifth Wheel And Parts Connection
Fontaine Fifth Wheel and its aftermarket parts company, Fontaine Parts Connection, have moved into a new state-of-the-art headquarters in Trussville, Alabama. ...
Dorsey Trailer Celebrates Second Anniversary Under Pitts
Dorsey Trailer, founded in 1911 and acquired by Pitts Enterprises in 2007, is celebrating the two-year anniversary of the first trailer built under Pitts’ ownership....
Registration Opens For Work Truck Show 2010
Registration is now open for North America’s largest work truck event, The Work Truck Show 2010. Register online at www.ntea.com to explore 500,000 square feet of cutting-edge truck components and equipment, meet face-to-face with current and potential suppliers, and choose from more than 40 training sessions to help improve your business, including two Special Sessions designed specifically for distributors and truck equipment upfitters...
Navistar Reaches Tentative Settlement with SEC
Navistar International Corporation (NYSE: NAV) announced today that it has reached a tentative settlement of the Securities and Exchange Commission’s investigation into the company’s December 2007 restatement of its financial results for 2002 through the first three quarters of 2005 that will fully resolve the matters under investigation...
