Peterbilt introduces new medium-duty
LOUISVILLE, KY – Peterbilt Motors Co. unveiled a redesigned version of its medium-duty truck at the Mid America Trucking Show yesterday and said it will go into production in May of this year. The new medium-duty will be designated Model 335. Da...
Freightliner adds vocational unit to M2 line
Freightliner Trucks has introduced the Business Class M2 112V— a Class 8 vocational truck designed for applications including refuse, mixers, snow plow, and utility services. ...
Standfast Enterprises receives NTEA's inaugural New Product Innovation Award
Standfast Enterprises of Macedon, Australia, has been named the 2004 New Product Innovation Award recipient for its product featured at The Work Truck Show in Baltimore, held in conjunction with the 40th annual National Truck Equipment Association (NTEA) Convention March 2-5....
Kenworth makes outside air temp gauge standard
Kenworth Truck Co. is making an outside air temperature gauge standard on heavy-duty trucks ordered with aerodynamic mirrors. ...
Diesel prices spike 2.4 cents
National diesel prices jumped 2.4 cents this week after last week’s much-needed 1.1-cent decline, according the Department of Energy. ...
Dana Corporation combines two business units
Dana Corporation announced today the combination of its Automotive Systems Group and Engine and Fluid Management Group into a single business unit that will retain the Automotive Systems Group name and enable Dana to better focus its strengths and resources on its global, light-vehicle customers. ...
ArvinMeritor announces two overseas ventures
ArvinMeritor, Inc.'s Commercial Vehicle Systems (CVS) business group today announced that it will provide trailer axle and suspension systems to the Spanish-based TotalTrailers-Fruehauf Group and trailer systems in a strategic alliance agreement with Shenzhen CIMC Heavy Industries Co., Ltd. (SCHI) in Shenzhen, China....
Sterling Trucks introduces factory-installed all-wheel drive system for Acterra
Sterling Truck Corporation today announced factory-installed all-wheel drive for the Sterling Acterra truck. ...
ArvinMeritor wins Shingo Prize for lean manufacturing practices
ArvinMeritor, Inc. announced today that its Light Vehicle Systems (LVS) Gladstone Avenue exhaust manufacturing plant in Columbus, Ind., is a 2004 recipient of the coveted Shingo Prize for Excellence in Manufacturing....
Trailer agreement reached in Mexico
An agreement has reached between United States trailer manufacturers represented by their local dealers and Mexican trailer manufacturers regarding standards that became effective Dec. 24, 2003....
GM recalls four million pickups
Reuters reported that General Motors Corp. will recall more than four million pickup trucks to replace tailgate support cables that could corrode. ...
ConMet enters fifth-wheel partnership
Consolidated Metco Inc. (ConMet) announced it has entered into a multi-year marketing and technology agreement with Georg Fischer Vekehrstechnik GmbH of Germany and Amsted Maxion Fundicão e Equipamentos Ferroviários S.A. in Brazil to manufacture and distribute fifth wheels. ...
Steel prices threaten to tarnish recovery
Just as the commercial truck and transportation equipment industry is getting back on its feet after a three-year decline in truck sales, surging steel prices and possible shortages threaten to cut the rebound short -- or at least take a bite out of profits -- according to the National Truck Equipment Association (NTEA)....
Year-to-date Volvo Group truck deliveries up 14%
Total deliveries of trucks from the Volvo Group's three truck companies increased 14% through February this year, compared with the year-earlier period....
Retail truck sales up 9% in February
Franchised dealers of U.S. truck manufacturers sold 721,449 units in February 2004 -- 9.6% above sales for the month a year ago, giving a year-to-date increase of 12.6%, according to data published by Ward's Communications....
Great Dane's Savannah plant now registered under new ISO 9001:2000 standard
Great Dane Trailers announced that the company's Savannah plant has received certification for its Quality Management System under the new ISO 9001:2000 standard. ...
Average diesel price falls 1.1 cents
The average diesel price nationally fell 1.1 cents this week, according to figures released by the Department of Energy....
Sprinter Cab/Chassis makes formal launch debut at Atlantic Builder's Show
DaimlerChrysler's new Freightliner Sprinter cab/chassis made its formal market debut at the Atlantic Builder's Conference (ABC) in Atlantic City, New Jersey, on Wednesday. ...
Manac awarded $15-million contract from SLH Transport
Manac Inc., a subsidiary of The Canam Manac Group, announced that it has signed a contract of approximately $15 million with S.L.H. Transport Inc. of...
Stronger-than-expected production increase a good sign for manufacturers
Big industry production rose by a strong 0.7% in February, an encouraging sign that the nation’s manufacturers may be getting a stronger grip on their...
NTEA elects new trusteesInterstate Equipment Leasing to supply 3,000 Kenworth trucks for Swift
Kenworth Truck Company announced today that Interstate Equipment Leasing will supply 3,000 new Kenworth trucks over the next three years for use in Swift...
Detroit Diesel announces 2007 technology
Detroit Diesel Corporation (DDC) will use exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) and diesel particulate filters on its heavy-duty engines to meet the EPA's 2007...
ATA to DOE: Drop diesel prices
The American Trucking Associations (ATA) has issued a letter to the Dept. of Energy (DOE) and the Council of Economic Advisors in response to rising diesel...
Yellow Roadway optimistic for 2004
Yellow Roadway Corp. increased its first quarter 2004 earnings per share guidance from $0.30 to $0.35 per share. This increase reflects the upper half...
