Sterling, Hino tops in medium-duty truck satisfaction: J.D. Power
Sterling ranks highest among conventional medium-duty trucks in overall product satisfaction, while Hino ranks highest among cab-over engine medium-duty...
Classic Fire opens doors in Ocala, Florida
Jim White, former vice president of manufacturing for E-One, has opened doors on a new fire apparatus maker with facilities in Ocala, Fla. White, who...
Pierce's Arrow XT passes crashworthiness tests
Pierce announced that the new Arrow XT heavy-duty cab passed the tough ECE R29 crash tests. These tests evaluate the structural strength of the cab to...
Kenworth offers Extended Day Cab conversion
Kenworth is now offering an Extended Day Cab Conversion Kit for T600, T800 and W900 models with AeroCab sleepers. The sleeper is unbolted from the cab...
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...
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...
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...
