Polar Enhances Manufacturing, Hires 500 Employees
Polar Corp., a full-line tank-trailer manufacturing, parts, and service organization, will enact initiatives to reduce production lead times and expand after-sale support for customers that transport fuel, chemicals, propane, food, and other products—culminating a nine-month period in which it has hired 500 employees...
Auto Truck Group Expands Into Canada
Auto Truck Group LLC (ATG) is expanding its work-truck-upfitting operations into Canada with a new production facility in Mississauga, Ontario...
Advance Engineered Products Launches Second-Generation Wet/Dry Combo Units
The Advance Engineered Products Group announced that it has completed the manufacture of two second-generation wet/dry combination units for delivery to a major North American carrier....
Rush’s Gross Revenues Increase 49% in 1Q
Rush Enterprises, Inc. (Nasdaq:RUSHA) (Nasdaq:RUSHB), which operates the largest network of commercial vehicle dealerships in North America, said that gross revenues totaled $446.1 million in the first quarter, a 49.1% increase from gross revenues of $299.3 million reported for the first quarter ending March 31, 2010....
Class 8 Orders Up 19% Over February
Class 8 commercial vehicles net orders for the North American markets totaled 28,900 units (not SA) in March, a 19.9% increase over February, according to ACT Research Company, LLC....
Hino’s 338 Named Medium-Duty Commercial Truck of the Year
Hino Trucks’ 338 model took home the 2011 Medium-Duty Commercial Truck of the Year award from the American Truck Dealers (ATD) division of the National Automobile Dealers Association. Last year, Hino’s 268 model received the same accolade....
WABCO Signs Agreement With Shaanxi Fast Gear
WABCO Holdings Inc. (NYSE: WBC) has entered into a long-term agreement with Shaanxi Fast Gear Company, Ltd., China’s largest manufacturer of heavy-duty transmissions, to develop and supply WABCO’s OptiDrive system, a breakthrough in transmission automation technology....
Obama Signs 1099 Repeal Into Law
President Obama has signed into law H.R. 4, which repeals the IRS Form 1099 reporting requirements. The move was applauded by the National Association of Trailer Manufacturers, which had joined a coalition of associations and small businesses supporting repeal of what it called “onerous reporting requirements.”...
NTEA Supports Reintroduction of Advanced Vehicle Technology Act
Rep. Gary Peters (D-MI) has reintroduced his Advanced Vehicle Technology Act (AVTA) as H.R. 1367—which, in the last Congress, passed the House (as H.R. 3246) on a bipartisan 312–114 vote but did not make it through the Senate before adjournment last December....
Betts Spring, Daimler Ink Long-Term Agreement
Betts Spring Company has signs a three-year renewable long-term agreement with Daimler Trucks North America (DTNA) to supply Betts and Life-Time Fenders branded spray-suppression products and other proprietary components manufactured to DTNA specifications...
20% Growth Forecast for East European Trailer Market
A forecast report issued by consulting group CLEAR projects 20% growth in heavy trailer demand in Eastern Europe for 2011...
Tri-State Truck Center Named Mack Distributor of the Year
Mack Trucks, Inc. named Tri-State Truck Center of Memphis, Tennessee, as its 2010 North American Distributor of the Year...
Latest issue of American Trucking Trends Released by ATA
American Trucking Associations has released the latest edition of its annual statistical compendium, American Trucking Trends 2011, for sale through its commercial arm, ATA Business Solutions...
Penton Marketing Services is established
Penton Media, publisher of the Trailer/Body Builders and Market Watch e-newsletter, has launched Penton Marketing Services, providing content-driven products, digital media solutions, and sales optimization tools...
Hendrickson Bumper and Trim Recommended for VPP Star Status
Hendrickson’s Bumper and Trim facility has been recognized as a Star site, the highest recognition within the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s (OSHA) Voluntary Protection Program (VPP). ...
Ford Targeting Strategy for EV Infrastructure
Ford Motor Co. is beefing up its efforts to help cities and utility companies craft electric vehicle (EV) infrastructure strategies to help foster sales of electric vehicles (EVs)....
Mitsubishi Fuso Resumes Production in Japan Next Week
Mitsubishi Fuso Truck and Bus Corporation (MFTBC), the parent company of Mitsubishi Fuso Truck of America, Inc., will resume production of vehicles at the company’s main Kawasaki Plant on Tuesday...
FTR Shippers Condition Index Continues Trend
FTR Associates continues to lower its Shippers Condition Index (SCI) to reflect tightening carrier capacity and the need for more equipment ...
Eby Opens Sales and Service Facility in Logansport, Indiana
M. H. Eby, Inc. has opened a new sales and service facility in Logansport, IN, which will provide sales of Eby’s line of all-aluminum livestock and horse trailers, equipment trailers, and aluminum truck bodies for agriculture, landscape and commercial applications....
Medium and Heavy Truck Sales Up 27% in March, 29% in 1Q
Medium and heavy truck sales were up 27% in March over the same period a year ago and up 29% for the first quarter compared to 2010, according to figures compiled by Wards Communications....
CV Market Strength Expected to Continue Through 2012
The most recent data continues to reflect improved demand across all segments of the heavy-duty commercial vehicle market, according to ACT Research Co...
Navistar Bullish on Electric Vehicles
Electric vehicles (EVs) designed specifically for light commercial usage are “a product whose time is now,” largely due to diesel prices that are expected to remain high for the foreseeable future, according to a Navistar executive...
AgHaul Backs Truck-Weight Reform Introduced in Senate
AgHaul, the Agriculture and Forestry Transportation Reform Coalition, is backing the U.S. Senate's introduction of the Safe and Efficient Transportation Act of 2011 ...
UELC Adds 50 New Rental Trucks to U.S. Utility Fleet
Utility Equipment Leasing Corporation (UELC) has made a major investment in trucks available for the U.S. utility equipment rental market for 2011, bringing 50 new rental trucks into the marketplace for its customers by the end of the month...
ATA Endorses EOBR Proposal
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s proposed electronic onboard recorder rule (EOBR) has received the endorsement of the American Trucking Assns...
