NTEA Welcomes New MVP Members
The latest round of NTEA members qualified for the National Truck Equipment Association (NTEA) Member Verification Program (MVP) as of Jan. 1 is published below. In total, 345 companies ...
Manufacturing Stalls in December, Report Shows
Economic activity in the manufacturing sector failed to grow in December following 10 consecutive months of expansion, while the overall economy grew for the 74th consecutive month...
Force Dynamics LLC Breaks MRAP Production Records
Force Protection, Inc. and General Dynamics Land Systems - through their joint venture Force Dynamics, LLC - today announced that they continued to break monthly vehicle production records...
Volvo to Recall 125,000 Trucks
Volvo will voluntarily recall 125,000 Class 8 trucks in North America because of a fault with an electrical component...
ATA Truck Tonnage Index Increases 0.8% in November
The American Trucking Associations' advanced seasonally adjusted For-Hire Truck Tonnage Index increased 0.8 percent in November, following a 0.2 percent contraction in October...
Diesel Price Drops
The average price of diesel nationally fell slightly last week, going from $3.309 to $3.308 per gallon, according to the Department of Energy...
A&R Logistics Acquires Alliance Logistics, MCB Services
A&R Logistics, Morris, IL, has completed the acquisition and merger of Alliance Logistics Inc, a non-asset based third party logistics provider, and MCB Services, a privately held refrigerated and dry van carrier...
Penske Opens New Facility in Lubbock
Penske Truck Leasing has opened a new 12,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art service center in Lubbock, TX, offering commercial and consumer truck rental services, full-service truck leasing and contract maintenance...
Bankruptcy Court Confirms Dana's Plan of Reorganization
Dana Corporation announced today that Judge Burton R. Lifland of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York has signed an order confirming the company's Plan of Reorganization...
Eaton To Develop Digital Hydraulic Hybrid Drive System For U.S. Army Vehicles
Eaton Corporation is adapting its advanced digital hydraulic hybrid drive system technology for U.S. Army vehicles. The goal of the project, which is being done in conjunction with Western Michigan ...
CFI to Invest in SmartWay-Approved Equipment
Contract Freighters, Inc. (CFI), a Con-way company providing international truckload services, today announced that it will purchase 140 Cummins 2007 ISX engines ...
November Trailer Orders Exceed Expectations
Total trailer orders released by A.C.T. were 15,633 in November, down 44% year-over-year (vs. down 35% year-over-year in October), but modestly higher than Bear Stearns’ low-end...
GM, Navistar Reach Tentative Agreement on Medium-Duty Truck Business
General Motors Corporation and International Truck and Engine Corporation, the principal operating subsidiary of Navistar International Corporation, have entered into a non-binding...
Daimler Announces Orders for 1,052 Orion VII Next Generation Diesel-Electric Hybrid Buses
Daimler Buses North America has received orders totaling 1,052 Orion VII Next Generation diesel-electric hybrid transit buses from some of North America's largest...
UQM Technologies’ Propulsion System Selected for Hybrid Bus Development Project
UQM Technologies Inc., a developer of alternative energy technologies, announced that its newly introduced 150 kW permanent magnet propulsion motor has been selected ...
Oshkosh To Build MRAP II Test Vehicles under New Contract Award
Oshkosh Truck Corporation announced today that, with Ideal Innovations, Inc. (I-3) and Ceradyne, Inc., it had been awarded a firm-fixed-priced delivery order for six Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) II test vehicles...
Haldex Restructures Friction Products
Haldex announced that it will restructure Friction Products, a business unit within the Commercial Vehicles Systems (CVS) division, discontinuing the production of lining products for drum brakes ...
Azure Dynamics Signs Florida Power & Light As Fourth Lead Customer For Parallel Hybrid
Azure Dynamics Corporation, a leading developer of hybrid electric and electric powertrains for commercial Vehicles, announced it has signed a commercial development and cooperation agreement with Florida Power and Light...
Navistar Affiliate Gets $1.2 Billion Order from U.S. Marine Corps for MRAPs
Making its largest single order to date of Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) vehicles, the U.S. Marine Corps today ordered 1,500 additional MRAP vehicles valued at nearly $1.2 ...
Daimler Trucks Builds its Presence in India
Daimler Trucks has formed a joint venture with the Indian company Hero Group. Both companies have signed a shareholder agreement and are in the process of submitting the formally required application to the FIPB...
CKCVR Survey Indicates Slow Rebound of Equipment Purchases in 2008
As part of their Q4 2007 Fleet Sentiment inquiry, CK Commercial Vehicle Research (www.ckcvr.com) included questions about 2008 equipment buying plans...
Trucking Continues to Dominate Freight Movement
Trucking will increase its share of the nation's freight pool and continue to dominate domestic freight movement into the next decade...
Sapa Industrial Extrusions Completes $7 million Press Upgrade
Sapa Industrial Extrusions has completed a $7 million rebuilding and upgrade of Press #9 at its Cressona, PA, plant. The project, which required nearly one year of work...
Medium and Heavy Truck Sales Down in November
Medium and heavy trucks sold at a slower pace in November, according to figures compiled by Wards Communications. Dealers sold 38,663 trucks with GVW ratings above 10,000 pounds during the month, down 25% from November 2006 ...
Ford Opens New Quality Center at Rouge Site
Ford Motor Company today marked the opening of its New-Model Quality Center at the historic Rouge site to support the introduction and ensure top quality of the new 2009 F-150 pickup...
