Haldex introduces anti-rust coating for remanufactured brake shoes
Haldex Commercial Vehicle Systems has introduced a new protective coating for remanufactured brake shoes that is guaranteed against lining edge cracking...
Swift completes Trans-Mex purchase
Swift Transportation Co. Inc. has completed its acquisition of an additional 51 percent interest in Trans-Mex Inc. S.A. de C.V. giving it 100 percent...
UK's commercial vehicle growth rate highest since 1989
According to a report released by The Society of Motor Manufacturers & Traders Limited, commercial vehicle registration in the United Kingdom climbed...
Dana's electronic cooling module to go in Sierra/Silverado hybrid
Dana Corporation announced today that it has been awarded the contract to supply a compact cooling module for the GM Sierra and Chevrolet Silverado hybrid...
Utilimaster to be subcontractor on Navistar’s U.S. Postal Service order
Utilimaster Corp will act as subcontractor for the manufacture and installation of van bodies for International Truck and Engine Corp’s agreement to deliver...
Quantum's fuel systems to be in GM's full-size pickups
Quantum Fuel Systems Technologies Worldwide, Inc. announced today that it has been awarded a contract by General Motors Corporation to develop and produce...
ArvinMeritor supplying axle/brake systems to North American Bus
ArvinMeritor, Inc. began this week to supply North American Bus Industries, Inc. with supply axle/brake systems. ArvinMeritor began supplying NABI with...
Mack to build diesel-electric hybrid for Air Force
Mack Trucks division is designing a diesel-electric hybrid engine for military use that the company says eventually may transfer to the commercial sector....
Pacer prepares to sell shares
Third-party logistics provider Pacer Inernational, Inc. has filed a shelf registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission for the potential...
Caterpillar buys million shares of supplier
Caterpillar has exercised a warrant and purchased 1 million shares of rubber-tracked vehicles and components maker ASV at a cost of $21 per share. The...
Cummins extends uptime guarantee
Cummins Inc. today announced that its Uptime Guarantee for U.S. heavy-duty on-highway truck engines has been extended for all engines placed in service...
Hayes Lemmerz announces agreement with Strick
Hayes Lemmerz International, Inc. announced today that its Commercial Highway Division reached an agreement with Strick Corporation in which Hayes Lemmerz...
Boyd goes private
Boyd Bros. Transportation, which touts itself as the only publicly traded "Pure Flatbed" company in the country, is going private. The Clayton, Alabama-based...
AAR partners with Stewart & Stevenson on FMTV program
AAR announced today that it has signed an agreement with Stewart & Stevenson Tactical Vehicle Systems Limited Partnership under which AAR Mobility Systems...
Toyota unveils FTX full-size pickup concept
Toyota's FTX full-size pickup concept truck -- offering a glimpse into the company's future full-size truck strategy -- made its world premiere at a press...
Ford's F-Series hits December sales record
Ford's F-Series truck, America's best-selling vehicle for 22 years in a row and best-selling truck for 27 years in a row, posted record December sales...
Mitsubishi to produce midsize pickup
After an eight-year hiatus, Mitsubishi Motors Corp. will re-enter the crowded U.S. midsize-pickup market in 2005 -- around the time that a redesigned...
EPA opens discussions with Torvec on transmission
Torvec, Inc. announced that, as the result of Torvec's recent successful testing of its infinitely variable transmission (IVT) in its Dodge Ram 4x4 diesel...
Recall notice issued by Marmon-Herrington
Marmon-Herrington issued a recall notice (NHTSA #02E-050) to the owners of medium and heavy-duty trucks, 1989 to present, with MT10 and MT11 steer-drive...
Engineered Support Systems wins trailer order
Engineered Support Systems has received a $6.2-million order for an additional 95 ammunition trailers. The order, from U S Army Tank-Automotive and Armaments...
New trailer standards in Mexico
For the first time, safety requirements for trailers are in effect in Mexico, as published in the Official Gazette on Dec. 23. The NOM-EM-010-SCFI-2003...
Martin Marietta launches plant for composite trailers
Martin Marietta Composites has begun production of trailers in its new plant in Sparta, North Carolina. The company commemorated completion of its first...
2004 truck outlook positive
The outlook for truck production in 2004 is positive, according to the National Truck Equipment Association's Fall Truck Equipment Outlook. Capital expenditures...
Retail truck sales up 27% in November
Franchised dealers of U.S. truck manufacturers sold 727,610 units in November, according to data published by Ward's Communications. That placed retail...
NTEA publishes buyers guide, directory
Nearly 1,500 companies that manufacture, distribute, install, sell, and repair commercial trucks, truck bodies, truck equipment, trailers, and accessories...
