NATDA, NATM Unite For The New Trailer Industry
The North American Trailer Dealers Association (NATDA) announced the launch of the NATM Affiliate Program, which will bring safety and regulatory information from the National Association of Trailer Manufacturers (NATM) down to the trailer dealers...
WABCO To Manufacture Air Disc Brakes In China
WABCO Holdings Inc. today announced that WABCO has completed its agreement with Guangdong FUWA Heavy Industry Co., Ltd., (Fuwa) to form a joint venture for production of air disc brakes in China...
PacLease Continues Canadian Growth
PACCAR Leasing Company (PacLease) continues its Canadian franchise network expansion with the addition of a new full-service lease location in Moncton, New Brunswick...
Tire Shipments Taking a Hit
Tire shipments are projected to decline by more than six percent this year compared to 2007 with a further one percent decline predicted for 2009, according to the Rubber Manufacturers Association...
EU Commercial Vehicle Registrations Down 17%
ACEA, the European automobile makers' association, has released data showing that European van, truck and bus registrations dropped 17% in October...
West European Trailer Sales Set To Fall In 2009, 2010
There is a curious dichotomy impacting the West European trailer market. Demand for trailers, as measured by the registrations figures, is at an all time high – higher even than 2007 which was a record year. At the same time production of trailers has plummeted...
ATA Truck Tonnage Index Falls 3% In October
The American Trucking Associations’ advanced seasonally adjusted For-Hire Truck Tonnage Index decreased 3% in October, marking the fourth consecutive month-to-month drop...
Supreme’s Mobile Command Center Goes to Dearborn County
Supreme Industries, Inc. today announced that, as part of its $2.1 million contract award from the Indiana Department of Homeland Security, the Supreme Specialty Vehicles sales team and employees of Supreme Industries will present to representatives of Dearborn County, the state's first district Mobile Command Center Vehicle...
American Axle & Manufacturing Declares 4Q Dividend
American Axle & Manufacturing Holdings, Inc. (AAM) today announced a cash dividend of $0.02 per share payable on December 29 to stockholders of record on all of the company's issued and outstanding common stock as of December 8...
Main Steel Atlanta Adds, Upgrades Equipment
Main Steel Polishing, Co., Inc. has announced the addition of a 25-ton crane to its Atlanta plant, which will allow for the easier movement of coil in the new 20,000-square-foot bay that was completed earlier this year...
TODCO Opens New Western Plant
TODCO announced that its new manufacturing facility in Tecate, Mexico, is now fully operational and serving the needs of the firm's western customer base...
Scania Plans Vehicle Production in Iraq
Scania has signed an agreement in principle with the government of Iraq on assembly of trucks and buses in that country...
Construction Machinery Manufacturers Pessimistic
The construction equipment manufacturing industry expects continued business declines in the United States through year-end 2008 of 8.6 percent, followed by flat growth in 2009 of 0.04 percent, according to the annual “outlook” survey of the Association of Equipment Manufacturers (AEM)...
MBB INTERLIFT, ULTRON LIFT Sign Long-Term Partnership
MBB INTERLIFT and ULTRON LIFT recently signed a long-term agreement to ensure a continued high level of product support for its customers...
Schneider Logistics Adds Five Freight Forwarding Locations
Schneider Logistics, Inc., announced the opening of five new freight forwarding offices at major gateways in the United States and Europe...
Hill Air Force Base Awards $12.3 Million Contract to Williamsen Manufacturing
Williamsen Manufacturing, a Salt Lake City-based fabrication and heavy manufacturing company, has been awarded a $12.3 million contract by Hill Air Force Base...
ArvinMeritor’s Fiscal Year Sales Up 11%
ArvinMeritor’s sales from continuing operations for fiscal year 2008 were $7.2 billion, up 11% compared to fiscal year 2007, due to strength in Europe and South America...
Oshkosh Expands in China
Oshkosh Corporation broke ground today on a new manufacturing facility in Tianjin, China, that will produce JLG access equipment specifically for the Asian market...
WABCO Directors Approve Cash Dividend
WABCO Holdings Inc. announced today that on November 10, its board of directors approved a cash dividend of 7 cents per share of common stock...
FleetPride Acquires Automotive Brake
FleetPride, Inc., an aftermarket distributor of heavy-duty truck and trailer parts, announced the acquisition of Automotive Brake Co. of Newburgh, Inc...
Navistar Unveils New Global Initiatives
Navistar International Corp announced the launch of a new transit bus in Mexico that is the first Navistar product expressly developed for global markets, new dealerships in Qatar and Oman, a new $24 million contract for International MaxxPro Dash and the reorganization of the truck segment to align with market conditions...
U.S. manufacturing becoming more competitive
An update of the widely-cited manufacturing “cost study” released today by the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM), the Manufacturing Institute and the Manufacturers Alliance/MAPI shows that U.S. manufacturing is making progress...
Good and bad news from Commerce Dept
Data released by the Commerce Department today shows that the U.S. trade deficit in September declined in response to falling petroleum prices that lowered the deficit in oil imports...
Retail truck sales mixed in October
Retail sales of commercial trucks were up slightly from the previous month, but the ultra-small gain was not enough to offset losses earlier in the year, according to figures compiled by Wards Communications...
Werner Enterprises Announces Quarterly and Special Dividends
Werner Enterprises announced a regular quarterly cash dividend of $.050 (5.0 cents) per common share payable to stockholders of record at the close of business on January 12, 2009...
