KC Public Schools Purchase 47 Thomas CNG Buses
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Navistar Defense, LLC has received a $123 million delivery order for an additional 175 International MaxxPro Dash vehicles with DXM independent suspension...
Fleets Wary of Equipment Purchases
By Wendy Leavitt, Fleet Owner director of editorial development
While motor carriers appear ready to replace their aging fleets, they have less appetite to expand their fleet capacity, according to the Business Expectation Survey for the fourth quarter of 2010 from Transport Capital Partners, LLC...
UK Van, Truck Registrations Up 32% in November
UK van and truck registrations for November experienced the biggest increase of the year – 35.2%, at 22,834 – and are 253,244 for the rolling year, according to the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders...
WABCO Factory Wins India’s Two Top Awards for Manufacturing Excellence
WABCO Holdings Inc. (NYSE: WBC) announced that WABCO India has won the 2010 India Manufacturing Excellence Award (IMEA) with Super Platinum distinction...
Army Orders First M-ATV Ambulances from Oshkosh Defense
Oshkosh Defense, a division of Oshkosh Corporation (NYSE:OSK), will provide the U.S. Armed Forces with the first MRAP All-Terrain Vehicle (M-ATV) tactical ambulances, giving military medics new capabilities for reaching injured military personnel in otherwise inaccessible battlefield environments...
Ford, Azure Dynamics Deliver First Transit Connect Electrics
Ford Motor Company (NYSE: F) and Azure Dynamics have begun shipping the first Ford Transit Connect Electrics to early customers in North America and to the United Kingdom for a demonstration project...
RoboVent Moves to New Facility
RoboVent, a manufacturer of air-filtration products for the welding industry, has moved into a new facility at 37900 Mound Road in Sterling Heights, Michigan. ...
Class 8 Orders Reach Highest Level In Four Years
FTR Associates has released preliminary data showing November Class 8 truck net orders for all major North American OEMs totaled 26,005 units, a 38% increase over October and the highest monthly order level since May 2006, over four years ago....
How effective are underride guards?
A recent report published by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration indicates that the stronger underride guards mandated for trailers have had limited effect in reducing deaths and serious injuries....
