RJ Reynolds honors Jevic
Delanco, NJ-based Jevic Transportation has been awarded the RJ Reynolds 2003 Quality Partnership Award, recognizing its performance in the LTL segment. ...
Collins Industries posts 10% sales gain in 2Q
Collins Industries, Inc. reported that sales increased 10% for its second fiscal quarter over the same period a year ago – $50,011,421, compared to $45,579,901....
Brand FX to open industry's largest composite utility truck body plant
Brand FX Body Company has acquired a 178,000-square-foot manufacturing facility on 24 acres in Pocahontas, Iowa, and plans to begin building its lineup of composite service bodies and pickup-truck Toppers and Inserts there by the fall. ...
Navistar profitable in 2Q
Navistar International Corp. has reported second quarter earnings of $41 million, compared with a net loss of $14 million for the same period last year. ...
International gets ISO-certified
International Truck and Engine Corp. has attained ISO 9001:2000 certification for the quality standards and processes of its manufacturing and assembly operations. ...
TMC heading to Mexico
The Technology & Maintenance Council (TMC) is hosting an international meeting for truck fleet managers in Mexico City, July 15-16. The meeting will be held in conjunction with PAACE Automechanica Mexico exposition to discuss the modernization of Mexican fleets. ...
Diesel up 1.8 cents
According to the Dept of Energy, diesel prices rose last week 1.8 cents to $1.763 per gallon, a penny shy of tying a record high that was set March 10, 2003....
New racking association launched
The Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders has launched a new association for manufacturers and importers of commercial vehicle racking and modular storage systems. ...
Timken to increase High Speed Steel prices
Timken Latrobe Steel, a subsidiary of The Timken Company, announced it would increase prices by 5 percent on High Speed Steel products. ...
Timken to close Canton bearing operations
The Timken Company announced today a plan to begin closing the Canton bearing manufacturing operations, with most of the production to be shifted to its other U.S. plants. ...
EPA, International seek cleaner diesel
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and International Truck and Engine Corp. today announced a testing and development partnership to advance the EPA’s clean diesel combustion (CDC) technology for low-emission diesel engines. They said the “commercial viability” of CDC will be determined jointly....
Michelin inks Yellow Roadway deal
Michelin announced that it will supply well over half of the tires and retreads to support the 450,000 consolidated wheel positions for Yellow Roadway, effective August 1, 2004....
Uphill battle for '07 incentives, TRALA says
The Truck Renting & Leasing Assn. (TRALA) believes an incentive package is necessary to convince fleets to buy low-emission truck technology in 2007 and 2010, but thinks the industry faces an uphill battle to get them. ...
Bush backs clean diesel in construction, tractors
The Bush administration has approved new rules to cut NOx and particulate matter levels of from construction, agricultural and industrial diesel-powered equipment by over 90% between 2008 and 2015. ...
Pre-buy a non-issue, OEMs and analysts say
According to Bear, Stearns & Co., a financial advising firm, dramatic increases in Class 8 truck sales in the first quarter this year compared to the same period in 2003 is being attributed to truck replacement needs and fleet expansions, not a feared “pre-buy” effort to avoid 2007 engine technology. ...
Hub Group’s 1Q ups profits
Third party logistics firm the Hub Group more than doubled its first quarter net income versus the same quarter in 2003, with much of that gain coming from the company’s logistics division. ...
Diesel prices climb to $1.745
According to the Dept. of Energy, weekly diesel prices rose 2.8 cents to $1.745 per gallon, just 2.6 cents shy of settling a new record high that was set in March 10, 2003. ...
Industry maintains strength in 2003, NADA DATA report shows
The nation's franchised new car and truck dealers recorded their fifth strongest year on record in 2003, selling 16.6 million vehicles at a total sales volume of nearly $700 billion, according to NADA DATA, a comprehensive annual analysis compiled by the National Automobile Dealers Association (NADA)....
Kidron plant in operation in Montgomery, Pennsylvania
The Kidron manufacturing facility in Montgomery, Pennsylvania, has launched its operation building bodies and trailers, starting with a large order for customized van bodies, according to Specialized Vehicles Corporation (SVC), parent company of Kidron brand truck bodies and trailers....
ArvinMeritor prevails in transmission technology dispute
ArvinMeritor, Inc. announced today that the U.S. Patent Board of Appeals and Patent Interferences has issued judgment in ArvinMeritor's favor against Eaton Corporation on all claims in two related transmission patent interferences. ...
NTEA’s Distributor Compensation Survey Report available
The NTEA’s 2004 Distributor Compensation Survey Report, conducted by Profit Planning Group (Boulder, CO), will be available to survey participants and for purchase by nonparticipants next week....
Oshkosh subsidiary inks Army order for fire trucks
Oshkosh Truck Corp. announced today its subsidiary, Pierce Manufacturing Inc., has scored a major $21.7 million order with the U.S. Army for 31 Tactical Fire Fighting Trucks (TFFT), with an option for another 31 units....
2007 prototype technology on display for first time
The future of clean diesel technology will be on display in Washington next week, including advanced technology tractor-trailer trucks, a hybrid diesel-electric bus, a state-of-the-art delivery van and a pickup prototype. ...
Diesel drops for third straight week
The average price for diesel nationally fell for the third consecutive week, according to figures released by the Department of Energy....
