Truckload Driver Turnover Increases in 2Q
The annualized turnover rate for line-haul truckload fleets of all sizes surged in the second quarter, with turnover at large fleets breaking the 100% barrier for the first time in more than four years, according to American Trucking Associations’ quarterly Trucking Activity Report...
Auto Production Poised for All-Time High
Production of cars and light trucks rose from 74.4 million in 2010 to 76.8 million in 2011----and 2012 may bring an all-time high of 80 million or more vehicles, according to new research conducted by the Worldwatch Institute ...
Utility Expands Plants in Arkansas, Virginia
Utility Trailer Manufacturing Company has expanded its dry van manufacturing plant in Paragould, Arkansas, and its reefer manufacturing plant in Marion, Virginia...
Navistar Closing One Business in Cost-Cutting Effort
Navistar is planning to close down its Workhorse Custom Chassis business and reduce headcount amongst its U.S. employee base part of its efforts to reduce costs and return to profitability...
Eaton Working to Reduce Battery Size by 50% on Hybrids
Eaton Corporation is strengthening its commitment to hybrid vehicle technology by developing a cost-effective power control system to reduce the size of the system battery without a loss of battery life or vehicle performance...
DHL Express Adds 100 Propane Autogas Vans
DHL Express has launched 100 new Ford E-250 cargo vans, each equipped with a ROUSH CleanTech-dedicated liquid propane autogas fuel system. They will support DHL Express pickup and delivery service within California, Florida, Georgia, Missouri and Texas...
Terex Opens Service Center in Ohio
Terex Equipment Services (TES) and Crane America Services (CAS), the North American service segment of Terex Material Handling and Port Solutions (MHPS), have opened a new 17,000-square-foot TES service center location in Columbus, Ohio, that will service all brands of aerial and industrial crane equipment in the Great Lakes Region...
Pursuit Continues to Improve Trailer Aerodynamic Devices
Makers of aerodynamic devices are engaged in a wide range of efforts to improve upon their designs, searching for ways to reduce costs while boosting longevity, durability and fuel savings, thus lowering return on investment (ROI) calculations for carriers...
Threat of Port Strike Not Affecting Retail Container Imports
Import cargo volume at the nation’s major retail container ports is expected to increase 8.5 percent in September compared with the same month last year, and strong increases are expected into the holiday season despite talk of a possible strike at East Coast and Gulf Coast ports, according to the monthly Global Port Tracker report by the National Retail Federation and Hackett Associates...
VT Hackney Opens Kansas Plant, Ramps Up Production
VT Hackney, Inc., a company of VT Systems, Inc., will ramp up the production of its Kidron insulated and refrigerated truck bodies by more than 50% annually with its recently opened 70,000-square-foot production facility in Independence, Kansas...
Nyberg Named President of Volvo’s Sales & Marketing
Volvo Trucks announced that Göran Nyberg has been appointed president of North American Sales & Marketing and will be responsible for all of the Volvo brand’s commercial truck activities in the U.S., Canada and Mexico...
Ford Unveils New Transit Van
Ford introduced its all-new full-size Transit commercial van – due to be introduced in the North American market next year – in Amsterdam Thursday, as well as a redesigned and updated version of its compact Transit Connect van...
DEF, Diesel Prices Trending Up
The national average cost of diesel fuel at the pump increased for the ninth straight week, but it’s not the only thing going up...
Former Freightliner VP Dies
A. Gordon Clark, former senior vice president of sales and marketing for Freightliner Corp. and consultant to Daimler AG when it entered in the U.S. trucking market, passed away on Sept. 2, in Chagrin Falls, OH. He was 90...
Preliminary Class 8 Orders Up 27% from July: FTR
Preliminary data shows that August Class 8 truck net orders were 15,935 units, up 27% from July, according to FTR Associates...
Navistar’s 3Q Profits Take a Big Hit
Navistar offset a third-quarter pre-tax loss of $100 million via a $196 million tax benefit, allowing the company to post net income of $84 million – a far cry, though, from the $1.4 billion in profits it posted in the third quarter of 2011...
EPA Allowing Penalties to Certify Diesel Engines
Engine makers will be allowed to produce and sell “heavy heavy-duty diesel engines” that do not meet the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) current 2010 NOx emission limit by paying penalties to the federal government on a per-engine basis, according to the Final Rule Noncomformance Penalties (NCPs) issued by the EPA...
Class 8 Preliminary Net Orders Rebound in August: ACT
North American Class 8 commercial vehicle preliminary net orders for August recovered from July while Classes 5-7 net orders were at their lowest level since January, according to ACT Research...
Utility Trailer Offering New High-Strength Steel Options
Utility Trailer Manufacturing Company announced that two new high-strength steel options are now available for Utility’s 4000D-X Composite dry van...
Bendix Delivers 200,000th Full-Stability Technology System
Bendix Commercial Vehicle Systems LLC announced that sales of the Bendix ESP Electronic Stability Program full-stability system have surpassed 200,000 units, reflecting continued growing support for full-stability technology in the commercial vehicle market...
Peterbilt Starts Building New Facility in Montana
Peterbilt Motors Company has broken ground on a 54,000-square-foot Montana Peterbilt dealership facility in Lockwood, Montana...
Wisconsin Kenworth Opens Location on Michigan’s Northern Peninsula
Wisconsin Kenworth has opened a parts and service Kenworth dealership in Escanaba, Mich., providing easy access to the combined U.S. Highways 2 and 41...
Polar Service Centers Opens Location In Portland
Polar Service Centers has opened a second, larger location in Portland, Ore., specializing in parts, service, and major repairs for all makes of bulk tank trailers and tank bodies...
Pres-On relocates to larger headquarters
Pres-On, a manufacturer of industrial foam tapes and gaskets, announced the relocation of its headquarters from Addison IL to Bolingbrook IL, effective...
Great Dane’s New Statesboro Plant Delivers First Trailer to Rowland Transportation
Great Dane's new refrigerated trailer plant in Statesboro, Ga., recently completed its first customer trailer produced to order—an Everest TL trailer to Rowland Transportation of Dade City, Fla...
