Haldex Secures Order Worth $130 million For Automatic Brake Adjusters
Haldex’s Commercial Vehicle Systems Division has secured a five-year order worth approximately $130 million from the German company BPW (Bergische Achsen)...
VW Gets Scania Stake in $4.37 Billion Deal
Volkswagen AG took control of Swedish truck maker Scania AB in a $4.37 billion deal, which could lead to a broader consolidation in the global truck industry...
Navistar Reports 2006 Profit Of $301 Million
Navistar International Corp. reported its 2006 profit more than doubled as the company works to disclose more of its financial history...
Kögel Posts Record 67% Growth
Trailer manufacturer Kögel Fahrzeugwerke GmbH announced growth of 67% for the 2007 financial year...
Isuzu Links With AuraGen All-Electric Transport Refrigeration System
Isuzu Commercial Truck of America, Inc. has announced the availability of an all-electric transport refrigeration unit...
Volvo Takes Success with CO2-Neutral Trucks to D.C.
Volvo presents seven different trucks in conjunction with the Washington International Renewable Energy Conference (WIREC)...
Preliminary Class 8 February Truck Orders Lower Than Expected
Class 8 net new orders for February, released by ACT today, were 16,100 - well below Bear Stearns’ forecast of 20,000-22,000, but up 18% year-over-year...
Volvo Deliveries Up 22% in January
Total deliveries of trucks from the Volvo Group’s four truck companies have increased 22% since 2007....
Wabash National Appoints COO
Wabash National Corporation today appointed Joseph M. Zachman to Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer...
Top 50 Infrastructure Projects in Latin America Announced
The 6° Annual Latin American Leadership Forum will be held in Miami, from April 1-3....
PacLease Adds 14 New Locations
PACCAR Leasing Company (PacLease) continues its rapid expansion with the announcement of 14 new locations throughout the U.S. and Canada...
MHC Kenworth-Kansas City Named 2007 Kenworth Medium Duty Dealer of Year
MHC Kenworth-Kansas City was named 2007 Kenworth Medium Duty Dealer of the Year for the United States and Canada at the annual Kenworth Dealer Meeting...
Workhorse Adds a ‘Star’ To Its Walk-in Lineup
The walk-in truck manufactured by Workhorse Custom Chassis was recently given a new name: the MetroStar....
Wabash To Build Production Facility in Kentucky
Wabash National Corporation announced several initiatives to further optimize the company’s manufacturing cost structure....
Waltco parent acquires liftgate companies
Hiab, the load-handling business area of Cargotec that owns Waltco Truck Equipment, has signed an agreement to acquire DEL Equipment (UK) Ltd and Ultron Lift Corp...
Ford Makes Noise at Work Truck Show
Ford unveiled its 2009 E-Series full-size van and the Transit Connect compact van -- its newest commercial vehicle offering -- at The Work Truck Show in Atlanta....
Great Dane Names Accuride Preferred Forged Aluminum Wheel Supplier
Accuride Corporation today announced that Great Dane Trailers has named Accuride’s Wheel division its preferred forged aluminum wheel supplier...
Smart Energy Solutions Unveils Battery Brain for HD market
Smart Energy Solutions, Inc., developer and manufacturer of the Battery Brain electronic controller for vehicle and marine batteries, has developed and is launching a new high-capacity Battery Brain for the truck and bus markets...
ATA Truck Tonnage Index Jumps 2.4% in January
The American Trucking Associations’ advanced seasonally adjusted For-Hire Truck Tonnage Index increased 2.4 percent in January 2008, after rising an amended 1.5 percent in December 2007...
Coca-Cola’s Hybrid Electric Order Is Eaton’s Largest
Eaton Corporation today announced that Coca-Cola Enterprises will purchase 120 new trucks in 2008 powered by Eaton’s hybrid electric drivetrain systems. The Coca-Cola order represents the largest North American...
Azure Dynamics and Utilimaster sign supply agreement for hybrid vehicle integration
Azure Dynamics Corporation, a leading developer of hybrid electric and electric powertrains for commercial vehicles, today announced that it has signed a supply agreement with Utilimaster Corporation for the assembly, hybridization and manufacturing engineering of Azure's P1 hybrid electric commercial delivery vans and shuttle buses....
FleetPride Acquires Oklahoma Truck Supply
FleetPride, Inc., the nation's largest independent aftermarket distributor of heavy-duty truck parts, announced today that it is expanding its national reach with the acquisition of certain assets of Oklahoma Truck Supply in Tulsa, Oklahoma....
Dodge Unveils Upgrades In Commercial Vehicles
Dodge announced a number of commercial-vehicle enhancements this morning at the 2008 National Truck Equipment Association (NTEA) Work Truck Show in Atlanta. Armed with the Class 4-5's largest standard fuel tank (52 gallons), 2008 Dodge Ram 4500 and 5500 ...
Total Trailer Orders Exceed Expectations
While directionally orders for total trailers and dry vans came in better-than-expected in January, on a year-over-year basis orders for total trailers and dry vans are still down 31% and 28%, respectively...
Magellan, Buckeye To Pursue Ethanol Pipeline
Magellan Midstream Partners LP and Buckeye Partners LP have begun a joint assessment to determine the feasibility of constructing a dedicated ethanol pipeline...
