Leggett & Platt, Snugtop Partner to Provide Commercial Truck Caps to Fleets
Mar 20, 2012
Leggett & Platt Commercial Vehicle Products (CVP), a manufacturer of commercial vehicle storage solutions and provider of fleet integration solutions, has announced a partnership with SNUGTOP...
Knaack Wins Work Truck Show Editors’ Choice Award
Mar 20, 2012
Knaack LLC (Crystal Lake, IL) has won The Work Truck Show 2012 Editors’ Choice Award for its new WEATHER GUARD Van Solutions line of accessories, bulkheads, shelving and secure storage for commercial vans...
ATA Contests Four Areas of HOS
Mar 16, 2012
In a filing with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, American Trucking Associations identified four areas where the Obama administration’s recent hours-of-service (HOS) rule falls short of legal standards for regulatory changes...
CV Registrations Reach 1.25 Million in 2011: Polk
Mar 15, 2012
The sales pace for both used and new trucks in 2011 suggests that trucking operations are committed to updating their aging fleets...
L.I.T. Receives 50 Height-Optimized Kögel Mega Units
Mar 14, 2012
L.I.T. AG, logistics, an information and transport specialist, is extending its fleet with 50 new height-optimized Kögel Mega trailers. The trailers will be used mainly in the Just-in-Time business of the automobile industry...
Bowman, McKinney, Milestone Acquire Aurora Trailer Leasing Fleet
Mar 14, 2012
Bowman Sales and Equipment, Hagerstown, Md., and McKinney Trailer Rentals, Pico Rivera, Calif., and Milestone Trailer Leasing, Tiburon, CA, have acquired of Aurora Trailer Leasing and Rental LLC’s fleet of 5,700 highway trailers...
FTR Shippers Conditions Index Stays Relatively Flat
Mar 14, 2012
FTR Associates’ Shippers Conditions Index (SCI) for January remained basically unchanged from the previous month, with a reading of -4.8...
XL Unveils New Website and Branding
Mar 14, 2012
XL Specialized Trailers, which focuses on specialized and custom-engineered heavy-haul trailers, recently revamped the company look with a new logo and web site that it will showcase at the Mid-America Trucking Show...
JXE’s Push Pays Off As ‘Wisconsin Wins’ Becomes Law
Mar 14, 2012
JX Enterprises (JXE) hosted Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker as he signed Assembly Bill 450 – popularly known as “Wisconsin Wins” – into law this week. The Governor was joined by state Rep. Mark Honadel, who helped author and spearhead the legislation through unanimous approval from both the House and Senate...
Ten Common Mistakes Companies Make in Pricing their Products or Services
Mar 14, 2012, By Per Sjofors, Managing Partner, Atenga, Inc.
Price strategy is emerging as the most important resource for companies to increase their competitive advantage...
Medium and Heavy Truck Sales Up 33% in February
Mar 13, 2012
Medium and heavy truck sales were up 33% in February over the same period a year ago and up 16% from last month, according to figures compiled by Wards Communications...
Cycle Peak Moved to 2014: ACT
Mar 13, 2012
ACT Research has shifted its long-term forecast for the commercial vehicle industry, adjusting the cycle peak downward for in 2013, with stronger demand now stretching through 2014...
Mitsubishi Fuso Unveils New 2013 Canters
Mar 13, 2012
Mitsubishi Fuso Truck of America, Inc. (MFTA) has announced the availability of its 2013 model-year medium-duty cabover trucks. The new Canters are in production now, and the first models were displayed at The Work Truck Show in Indianapolis March 5-8...
Wabash ArcticLite Reefers Now Available in Australia
Mar 12, 2012
Wabash National Corporation (NYSE: WNC) has partnered with Australian-based Macfield to bring ArcticLite refrigerated vans to the Australian market...
New Utility Dealer Location in Queretaro, Mexico
Mar 12, 2012
Utility Trailer Manufacturing Company has opened a new Utility dealer location in Queretaro, Mexico...
FTR Webinar: No Room For ‘Moaning’
Mar 8, 2012
United States manufacturing is benefitting from the strength of U.S. exports, which is very good for the transportation industry, according to Noel Perry, senior consultant for FTR Associates and principal of Transport Fundamentals ...
Livas Takes Over as NTEA President
Mar 7, 2012
Frank Livas, president of Brake & Clutch, Inc., was installed today as the 48th President of the National Truck Equipment Association ...
Daimler Recalls 110,000 trucks
Mar 7, 2012
Daimler Trucks North America (DTNA) has notified the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) of a recall of approximately 110,000 Freightliner, Sterling, and Western Star trucks manufactured since 2006...
Volvo Trucks Awarded Dual Energy Certifications
Mar 7, 2012
Volvo Trucks’ New River Valley (NRV) assembly plant in Dublin, VA, has been certified under both the top international standard and the top U.S. certification program for driving continuous improvements in energy efficiency—the first U.S. facility to achieve that, according to Volvo...
Ford to Replace E-Series
Mar 6, 2012
Ford Motor Company will replace most, but not all, of its venerable E-Series van with the new Transit....
Wabash Opens New Diversified Products Reporting Segment
Mar 6, 2012
Wabash National Corporation (NYSE: WNC) has established a new financial reporting segment, Diversified Products, which comprises Wabash Composites (formerly DuraPlate Products Group), Wabash Energy and Environmental Solutions (formerly Allied Products Group) and Wabash Wood Products...
2013 GMC, Chevrolet Bi-Fuel Pickups Introduced
Mar 6, 2012
Chevrolet and GMC unveiled the bi-fuel 2013 Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra 2500 HD extended cab pickup trucks, saying that fleet and retail consumers can place orders beginning in April....
Wilkinson Named President of Bendix Spicer Foundation Brake
Mar 6, 2012
Eddie Wilkinson has been named president of Bendix Spicer Foundation Brake LLC (BSFB), a joint venture of Bendix Commercial Vehicle Systems LLC and Dana Commercial Vehicle Products, LLC...
Preliminary Class 8 Orders Down 11% in February: FTR
Mar 5, 2012
February Class 8 truck total net orders were 22,243 units for all major North American OEMs—an 11% drop from January—according to preliminary data released by FTR Associates...
Teamco Buys Feterl, Expands Product Line
Mar 5, 2012
Teamco Inc. of Tea, South Dakota, has purchased all of the assets of Feterl Service Body and Crane Products from BII Fargo Incorporated....
