General Dynamics Armament Awarded $150 Million Contract
General Dynamics Land Systems-Canada has awarded General Dynamics Armament and Technical Products a contract valued at more than $150 million to qualify and produce reactive armor tile sets for the Stryker family of vehicles. Deliveries are expected to begin in March 2010...
Celadon Wins Fleet Safety Award
Celadon Trucking Services Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Celadon Group Inc. (NASDAQ:CLDN), was today awarded the Indiana Motor Truck Association’s Local Fleet Safety Award for the fourth time in five years...
Truck Freight Might Be Seeing Bottom
By Jim Mele, Fleet Owner editor-in-chief
NEW YORK. Truck freight may be showing the first signs of a turnaround after 39 months of depressed freight volumes including sharp declines since last October, according to truckload executives addressing an audience of financial analysts here. Major LTL carriers, however...
Volvo’s Truck Deliveries Down 63% in April
The total deliveries from the Volvo Group’s truck operations in April amounted to 9,196 vehicles -- a decrease of 63% compared with the year-earlier period...
Automatic Feed Company Introduces Coil-Fed Laser Blanking Process
Automatic Feed Company, an automotive supplier of high-speed coil processing equipment and automated systems, has announced that it has developed a new method for laser-cutting blanks from continuously fed coil stock capable of 18 to 30 production parts per minute...
WABCO Adds to Intelligent Trailer Program
WABCO Holdings Inc. (NYSE: WBC) introduced new functions to its Intelligent Trailer Program. OptiLoad, OptiTurn, Tilt Alert and Bounce Control are featured on the E1 version of the company's Trailer EBS E generation...
Azure Dynamics Adds 13 Dealerships
Azure Dynamics Corporation (TSX: AZD) announced today it has signed agreements with thirteen additional dealerships to represent Azure's innovative Balance Hybrid Electric Drive System....
Waltco merges with Ultron Lift
Under the leadership of new president Michael Militello, Waltco Hydraulic Liftgates is preparing to merge with Ultron Lift Corp...
Mack, UAW Reach Tentative Agreement on New Contract
Mack Trucks, Inc. today announced that the company and the United Auto Workers reached a tentative agreement on terms of a new 40-month Master Agreement that would cover about 1,700 UAW members ...
Hayes Lemmerz Receives Delisting Notice from NASDAQ
Hayes Lemmerz International, Inc. (Nasdaq: HAYZ) announced today that on May 12, the NASDAQ Stock Market notified the company that, in accordance with Listing Rules 5100 and 5110(b)...
Navistar To Link Dealer Parts Inventories
Navistar Inc. (NYSE: NAV) will optimize its dealers’ parts inventory and speed up customer repairs through parts supply chain and intelligence tools provided by OEConnection LLC, the leading online parts and service exchange in the automotive industry. ...
Carrier Transicold Names Dealers Of The Year
Making its 25th anniversary year as a Carrier Transicold dealer even more commemorative, DeCleene Truck Repair and Refrigeration of De Pere, Wis., was named Carrier’s 2008 North America Dealer of the Year...
MEMA Releases Parts Report
MEMA and its affiliate associations – the Automotive Aftermarket Suppliers Association (AASA), the Heavy Duty Manufacturers Association (HDMA) and the Original Equipment Suppliers Association (OESA) –recently released a new informational report outlining the important contributions of all US motor vehicle parts suppliers: “Moving America, Part by Part.” ...
Private Fleets Like Larger Trucks
Higher gross weight limits and longer combination vehicles (LCVs) would have significant benefits for many private fleet operations, according to a new study conducted by the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI) for the National Private Truck Council (NPTC)...
Medium and Heavy Truck Sales Down 39%
Medium and heavy truck sales were down 39% in April over the same period a year ago and down 11% over the previous month, according to figures compiled by Wards Communications...
Carrier Reaches 700,000-Unit Milestone
Carrier Transicold’s Container Products Group recently achieved a new milestone: production of its 700,000th container refrigeration unit, the largest number of container refrigeration units produced by a single company...
Centurion Adds Aurora Parts & Accessories As Master Dealer
Centurion Wheel Mfg. Co.’s truck and trailer wheel business continues to grow after a recent strategic alliance with Aurora Parts & Accessories, a supplier of aftermarket semi-trailer parts...
Supreme’s 1Q Net Income Down $1.4 Million
Supreme Industries, Inc. (NYSE Amex: STS) today announced that the net loss for the first quarter was $1.4 million, or $0.10 per share, versus net income of $0.2 million, or $0.02 per diluted share, in last year's comparable quarter...
IC Bus Delivers New Hybrid Commercial Buses to Emeryville
Emeryville (California) Transportation Management Association (TMA) recently launched three new hybrid buses into service after IC Bus delivered them in March...
BAE Systems Awarded $81 Million Contract for HERCULES Vehicles
BAE Systems has been awarded an $81.4 million contract to produce 39 M88A2 HERCULES recovery vehicles and spare parts for the U.S. Army...
WABCO Obtains First Major Contract for EcoSmart Clutch Compressor
WABCO Holdings Inc. (NYSE: WBC), a tier-one supplier to the commercial vehicle industry, today announced that WABCO has been awarded a contract by a major original equipment manufacturer in Europe to supply EcoSmart systems to equip their heavy-duty truck engines for series production starting in 2011...
Rogers Brothers Named GSA Contractor
Rogers Brothers Corporation, manufacturers of lowbed and tag-along trailers, has been approved as a U S General Services Administration contractor under the GSA Schedules program...
Cummins to Temporarily Close Columbus MidRange Engine Plant
Cummins Inc. is temporarily closing the Columbus MidRange Engine Plant (CMEP) in Walesboro, Indiana, as a result of Chrysler’s decision last week to idle its manufacturing operations while it undergoes bankruptcy reorganization...
Kenworth Adds Aftermarket Crew Cab Conversion Option
Kenworth Truck Company has added an aftermarket crew cab conversion option for the Kenworth T270 and T370 medium duty diesel-electric hybrids in pickup and delivery and utility applications...
Auto Truck Group Moves To New Facility
After a two years of planning and construction, Auto Truck Group has moved into its new state-of-the-art, 103,000-square-foot headquarters in Bartlett, Illinois...
