Fontaine Modification Reaches Safety Milestone
Fontaine Modification’s Charlotte, N.C., headquarters celebrated the facility’s 1,000th day without a lost time accident...
Wisconsin Kenworth Opens New Full-Service Location in La Crosse
Wisconsin Kenworth has opened a 15,200 square-foot full-service operation in La Crosse, joining a Kenworth dealer network of nearly 320 locations in the United States and Canada...
Navistar Expects to Avoid EPA’s Engine Penalties
Navistar faces stiff fines from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for engines that do not meet 2010 emissions standards, but the company told analysts during a meeting at its new headquarters in Lisle, IL, that it probably won’t have to pay them – largely because it just submitted its 13L engine to the EPA for emissions certification...
Truck Shipments Deferred Due to Potential Bendix ATR-6 Valve Defect
Bendix has identified a potential defect in its ATR-6 valve manufactured between December 2, 2010, and January 18, 2012, and has advised the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration ...
Haldex Relocates Harrisburg Center
Haldex has relocated its Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Friction Center to a new facility in Middletown, increasing production capacity with an improved layout to optimize process flow and adding a specialized transit shoe production cell...
Fleet Brake to sell Certain Assets to FleetPride
Fleet Brake USA LLC announced that an agreement in principle has been reached with an affiliate of FleetPride, Inc. to sell the certain assets in Utah and Idaho ...
FTR’s Trucking Conditions Index Rises for Third Straight Month
FTR’s Trucking Conditions Index, as reported in the February 2012 Trucking Update, increased in December to a reading of 7.0—the third consecutive month that the reading has increased, reflecting an improving climate for truckers as U.S. economic fundamentals strengthened during the fourth quarter of 2011...
Great Dane plant builds 100,000th trailer
Great Dane has now built more than 100,000 trailers at its van plant in Terre Haute, Indiana. ...
Polar Tank Names Painter President
Polar Corporation appointed Jim Painter president of Polar Tank Trailer, North America’s largest manufacturer of aluminum, stainless steel, and carbon steel tank trailers...
EPA to Penalize Non-compliant 2012, 2013 Engines
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued an interim rule (IR) to make nonconformance penalties (NCP's) available to manufacturers of heavy-duty diesel engines in model years 2012 and 2013 for emissions of oxides of nitrogen ...
East names Worldwide Equipment New Trailer Dealer
Worldwide Equipment Inc., a truck equipment company with 15 full-service dealerships in six states, has been named an authorized dealer for East Manufacturing...
Fleet Brake Named 2011 Co-Distributor of the Year
HDA Truck Pride member, Fleet Brake Parts and Service, Calgary, AB, Canada, was named Truck Parts & Service Co-Distributor of the Year at the 2012 Heavy Duty Aftermarket Week at The Mirage in Las Vegas...
ATA Makes Law Department Moves
American Trucking Associations President and CEO Bill Graves announced the promotion of Prasad Sharma to senior vice president and general counsel and the hiring of Richard Pianka as the association’s new vice president and deputy chief counsel...
Odyne Systems Delivers Plug-In Hybrid Propulsion Systems
Odyne Systems has delivered seven trucks featuring the Odyne advanced plug-in hybrid propulsion system to utilities and municipalities throughout Wisconsin, and also has delivered the first digger derrick featuring the system to Commonwealth Edison Company (ComEd), one of the largest utilities in the United States...
Freight Railroads to Invest a Record $13 Billion on Capital Expenditures
The nation's major freight railroads are projected to invest a record $13 billion in capital expenditures in 2012 to expand, upgrade, and enhance the nation's freight rail network, the Association of American Railroads (AAR) announced...
TransAxle Receives Remanufacturer of the Year Award
The Automotive Parts Remanufacturers Association (APRA) awarded TransAxle LLC its prestigious “Mike Hill Heavy Duty Remanufacturer of the Year” Award, given to a company or individual demonstrating innovative ways to create and grow a successful business model and in the process, supported industry efforts to advance the science of remanufacturing...
Stoughton Adds Dealership in Canada
Stoughton Trailers has added a Canadian dealership to its network and added two to its sales force...
EU Commercial Vehicle Registrations Up 7.5% in December
New commercial vehicle registrations in the EU amounted to 166,739 units in December, a 7.5% increase over the same month of 2010, according to the European Automobile Manufacturers' Association ...
Polar Tank Trailer Names Arlt VP of Sales and Marketing
Polar Corporation has named Randy Arlt vice president of sales and marketing for Polar Tank Trailer, the company’s tank trailer manufacturing business...
Net Trailer Orders Up 38%, Builds Up 69% in 2011: ACT
Net orders for total trailers grew 38% year-over-year, while build jumped 69%, according to the latest State of the Industry: U.S. Trailers published by ACT Research Co. (ACT)...
Used-truck volumes improve in December
Reported volumes of used Classes 3-8 truck sales reversed their slide into negative territory in December, and volumes were consistent among channels on a sequential basis, according to the latest release of the State of the Industry: U.S. Classes 3-8 Used Trucks, published by ACT Research...
Meritor, Fras-le Renew Brake-Lining Supply Agreement
Meritor Inc. and Fras-le S.A. have renewed an exclusive five-year commercial supply agreement for brake lining for the U.S. and Canadian commercial vehicle markets...
FMCSA Obtains Temporary Restraining Order to Shut Down Double Happyness Bus Co
At the request of the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA), the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania has issued a temporary restraining order against Double Happyness Travel, Inc. of Huntingdon Valley, Pa., that prohibits the company from operating in or affecting interstate passenger transportation service...
Accuride Increasing North American Capacity and Capabilities
Accuride Corporation (NYSE: ACW) expects to make additional investments of approximately $75 million in 2012 to strengthen product availability, quality and reliability, upgrade its manufacturing processes and improve customer service...
