HDAW ’12 Offers Early-Bird Registration Contest
Oct 4, 2011
Heavy Duty Aftermarket Week 2012 has announced an early registration contest for distributors who plan to attend HDAW ’12 at the Mirage in Las Vegas, Nev., January 23-26, 2012...
Truck Sales Drive Ford’s 9% September Increase
Oct 3, 2011
Driven by a 35 percent increase in Ford brand utilities and a 15 percent gain in Ford truck sales, Ford Motor Company's September sales were 175,199, up 9 percent over a year ago...
MHC Kenworth-Kansas City Named 2010 Kenworth Parts/Service Dealer of Year
Oct 3, 2011
MHC Kenworth-Kansas City was named 2010 Kenworth Parts and Service Dealer of the Year for the United States and Canada at the annual Kenworth Parts and Service Meeting held recently in Orlando, Fla...
Work Truck Show 2012 Opens Registration, Housing
Oct 3, 2011
Registration and housing are now open for The Work Truck Show 2012 and the 48th Annual National Truck Equipment Association (NTEA) Convention...
German trailer manufacturer builds 250,000th axle
Sep 30, 2011
Schmitz Cargobull has reported that more than 250,000 of its trailer axle have been manufactured since they were designed and developed in-house in 2005...
George W Bush to speak at The Work Truck Show
Sep 29, 2011
America’s previous president, George W Bush, will be the keynote speaker at The Work Truck Show 2012...
Europe shakes economic concerns, buys trucks
Sep 29, 2011
Europe may be concerned about sovereign debt and other economic issues, but those fears have not kept the commercial truck market from growing. New registrations of commercial vehicles in the European Union were up 3.0% in July and 15.7% in August, according to the European Automobile Manufacturers' Association...
AL-KO Kober and Axis Products Merge
Sep 29, 2011
AL-KO Kober USA and Axis Products have merged and will be known as AL-KO Axis, Inc....
Accuride Corporation sells Fabco subsidiary
Sep 28, 2011
Accuride Corporation (NYSE: ACW), has sold its subsidiary Fabco Automotive Corporation (Fabco) to Fabco Holdings Inc, a new company formed and capitalized by Wynnchurch Capital in partnership with Stone River Capital Partners, LLC....
New York passes truck mirror legislation
Sep 28, 2011
Legislation approved by the State of New York will require trucks, tractors, and tractor-trailer combinations to have convex mirrors....
Incentives fail to stimulate European electric vehicle sales
Sep 28, 2011
New research from JATO Dynamics finds that despite a variety of subsidy programs, electric vehicle (EV) sales in Europe remain stubbornly unresponsive to financial incentives during the first six months of 2011. ...
Driver turnover hits three-year high
Sep 28, 2011
It became a little harder for large truck fleets to keep drivers behind the wheel during the second quarter of 2011....
All Truck And Trailer Parts joins Vipar network
Sep 28, 2011
All Truck and Trailers Parts has joined the VIPAR Heavy Duty network of distributors. ...
Meritor opens aftermarket distribution center in India
Sep 27, 2011
Meritor, Inc (NYSE: MTOR) has opened a new aftermarket distribution center in Pune, India, to serve the growing marketplace...
GSA orders 100 commercial buses
Sep 27, 2011
Freightliner Custom Chassis Corporation (FCCC) continues to expand its presence in the commercial bus market. The company recently secured an order to supply the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) with 100 commercial bus chassis...
Former Utility Trailer president dies
Sep 27, 2011
Walter Bennett, formerly president and director of Utility Trailer Manufacturing, died September 11 in his Los Angeles, California home. He was 93...
ATA Truck Tonnage Index Edges 0.2% lower in August
Sep 27, 2011
The American Trucking Associations’ advance seasonally adjusted (SA) For-Hire Truck Tonnage Index declined 0.2% in August after falling a revised 0.8% in July 2011. July’s decrease was less than the 1.3% ATA reported on August 23, 2011...
Trailer shipments up in August
Sep 27, 2011
The trailer industry posted the strongest monthly shipment volume in August since June 2007, according to figures compiled by ACT Research, Columbus, Indiana...
Lack of inventory slows used truck sales
Sep 26, 2011
Sales of used Classes 3-8 trucks extended their summer slump in August, falling 3% from July. Volumes were mixed on a channel by channel basis, falling in the auction and wholesales markets, but gaining ground in the retail market. YTD volumes for Class 8 used trucks are down 7.4% from the same time period last year...
Kim Korth named permanent president and CEO at Supreme
Sep 26, 2011
Supreme Industries, Inc (NYSE Amex: STS), announced that Ms. Kim Korth has been appointed by Supreme's Board of Directors to the permanent position of president and chief executive officer...
Slower truck growth predicted at NTEA summit
Sep 26, 2011
Forecasters have scaled down their outlooks but continue to forecast growth for the commercial truck market...
Trailer fleets reaching full capacity
Sep 23, 2011
Fleets appear to be hauling all the freight they can accommodate, according to the FTR Associates’ Shippers Condition Index ...
Meritor adds new trailing-arm suspensions
Sep 22, 2011
Meritor Inc unveiled the newest suspension family members--the MTA25 (25,000-lb capacity) and MTA30 (30,000-lb capacity)--to its product line of trailing-arm air ride trailer suspension systems. The Meritor Trailing-Arm Air (MTA) Suspension is designed to meet the needs of North America truck and trailer operators in various vocational markets, including platform, tanker, bottom dump, grain, logging, transfer, side-dump and end-dump trailers...
HDA Truck Pride Adds American Truck Group
Sep 21, 2011
HDA Truck Pride has added American Truck Group in Gulfport, Mississippi, an independent parts distributor that will be the newest member of HDA Truck Pride and a service provider...
HDAW 2012 Finalizes Education Program
Sep 21, 2011
Six education sessions have been scheduled for Heavy Duty Aftermarket Week 2012, featuring the conference theme, “Corporate Culture: The Foundation for Success.” ...
