NHTSA Makes Corrections in GHG Document
Dec 29, 2010
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) have made corrections in the proposed rules published in the Federal Register of November to establish a comprehensive national program that will increase fuel efficiency and reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions for on-road heavy-duty vehicles...
FMCSA Proposes to Revise HOS
Dec 29, 2010
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) has issued a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPR) to revise the regulations for hours of service for drivers of property-carrying commercial motor vehicles (CMVs)...
Navistar’s 4Q In Line With Expectations
Dec 23, 2010
Navistar International Corporation (NYSE: NAV) reported profitable results for the fourth quarter ended Oct. 31, propelled by the improved performance of its core business and military sales...
FTA Awards National Parks $27 Million for Transportation Improvements
Dec 23, 2010
The Federal Transit Administration (FTA) said that 47 projects in national parks, forests and wildlife refuges across the United States will share in $27 million from its Paul S. Sarbanes Transit In Parks program to improve public and alternative transportation within the grounds...
Commercial Trailer Net Orders Up 215% in November
Dec 22, 2010
Net orders of commercial trailers rose to 21,314 in November, a 23% increase over October’s performance that was the strongest month in over two years and a 215% increase over November 2009, according to ACT Research Co...
FTA Awards $25.7 Million to Help Communities Select Best Local Transit Options
Dec 22, 2010
The Federal Transit Administration (FTA) has given $25.7 million in competitively awarded grants through the Alternative Analysis program to help community officials in 15 states evaluate and select the best options to help place new or expanded transit systems in their communities...
China’s HD Sales Decline From Record Levels
Dec 21, 2010
Sales of heavy-duty commercial vehicles in China were 204,250 units in the third quarter of 2010, a 16 percent increase from the third quarter of 2009, but a 36 percent decline from the record sales of the second quarter of this year...
BAE Systems Unveils Parallel Propulsion System for Trucks
Dec 21, 2010
BAE Systems is developing a parallel hybrid propulsion system designed for medium- and heavy-duty truck applications that is the latest version of the HybriDrive green system...
KC Public Schools Purchase 47 Thomas CNG Buses
Dec 21, 2010
The Kansas City Kansas Public School District has purchased 47 Thomas Built HDX rear engine buses, powered by compressed natural gas ...
2011 Economy: Don’t Pop the Champagne Corks
Dec 21, 2010
It will be a “mixed bag” for the manufacturing community in 2011 as the economy will not lead to “champagne-cork-popping, but be more like wine-box-opening time,” forecasts an economist for a leading industry trade group...
Medium and Heavy Truck Sales Up 23% in November
Dec 20, 2010
Medium and heavy truck sales were up 23% in November over the same period a year ago and down 7% from last month, according to figures compiled by Wards Communications...
Class 8 Net Orders Up 38% in November
Dec 20, 2010
Net orders of heavy-duty Class 8 commercial vehicles for North American markets were 26,268 units in November, an increase of 38 percent month-over-month from October, according to ACT Research Co...
ATA Truck Tonnage Index Falls 0.1% In November
Dec 20, 2010
The American Trucking Associations’ advance seasonally adjusted (SA) For-Hire Truck Tonnage Index dropped 0.1 percent in November after increasing a revised 0.9 percent in October...
Webb Renames Business Unit Severe Duty
Dec 20, 2010
Webb Wheel Products Inc. will change the name of its Transit Business Unit to Webb Severe Duty, effective January 1, 2011...
Bendix Backs Laws Limiting Copper In Brake Friction Materials
Dec 16, 2010
Bendix Spicer Foundation Brake LLC is backing recent state laws passed in California and Washington that reduce the amount of copper allowed in brake friction materials beginning in 2021...
Azure Dynamics’ Ford Transit Connect Electric LEAD Program Receives Record Order
Dec 16, 2010
Azure Dynamics Corporation (TSX: AZD)(OTC: AZDDF) has completed its LEAD customer program for the Ford Transit Connect Electric by signing agreements with its final two LEAD customers: a Washington, D.C.-based governmental organization and a logistics organization that placed the single largest Transit Connect Electric order to date of 30 units...
Rush: Truck Sales To Experience ‘Gradual’ Increases
Dec 16, 2010, By Sean Kilcarr, Fleet Owner senior editor
SAN ANTONIO – Sales of new trucks should pick up nicely over the next three years, according to W. M. “Rusty” Rush, president & CEO of Rush Enterprises, which owns one of the largest chains of truck dealerships in the U.S...
Volvo’s Deliveries Up 52% in November
Dec 15, 2010
Total deliveries from the Volvo Group’s truck operations in November amounted to 18,454 vehicles, an increase of 52% compared with the year-earlier period ...
Old Dominion Opens New Service Center in Wyoming
Dec 15, 2010
Old Dominion Freight Line Inc. today opened a new service center near Casper, Wyoming, featuring 10 doors on a two-acre site at 280 Baker Drive in Evansville, east of Casper’s city center...
Indian Tribes Receive $15.1 Million Award from FTA
Dec 15, 2010
American Indian and Alaska Native tribal governments across the United States will be able to make public transportation improvements on or near reservations, thanks to a $15.1 million investment of federal funds announced today by the Federal Transit Administration...
Rush, SACE Combine To Put Cleaner Rigs On Southern Roads
Dec 14, 2010
The Environmental Protection Agency has awarded $5 million to the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy (SACE) to help Southern truckers and small businesses to buy cleaner big rigs, with Rush Enterprises Inc serving as the exclusive vendor...
Truck Technicians Even Tougher To Find These Days
Dec 14, 2010, By Sean Kilcarr, Fleet Owner senior editor
SAN ANTONIO, TX . Demand for truck technicians is surging again, especially among dealerships, as the overall age of the industry’s fleet reaches levels not seen in decades and sales of new equipment remains below historical norms...
Bendix Backs State Regs To Cut Copper In Brake Friction Materials
Dec 14, 2010
Bendix Spicer Foundation Brake LLC said it “applauds the recent state laws passed in California and Washington that reduce the amount of copper allowed in brake friction materials beginning in 2021.” The company noted that its Bendix brand of foundation drum brakes currently meet those new state mandates...
Class 8 Production Projected To Be Up 29% For 2010
Dec 13, 2010
Full-year 2010 production of Class 8 vehicles will be approximately 152,000 units, up 29 percent from a weak 2009, but still well below normal replacement demand, according to the latest release of the ACT North American Commercial Vehicle Outlook...
Marine Corps Places $123 Million MRAP Order With Navistar Defense
Dec 10, 2010
Navistar Defense, LLC has received a $123 million delivery order for an additional 175 International MaxxPro Dash vehicles with DXM independent suspension...
