FMCSA Finalizes Rule on Trailer ABS Indicator Lamps
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) has made permanent the existing requirement in the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations (FMCSRs) that trailers with antilock brake systems (ABS) be equipped with an external malfunction indicator lamp...
Garland, Texas, Testing Parallel Hydraulic Hybrids
The City of Garland, Texas, Environmental Waste Services Department, has begun a long-term field test evaluation of the Bosch Rexroth Hydrostatic Regenerative Braking (HRB) system, to assess the technical, environmental, and economic benefits of the parallel hydraulic hybrid system...
European CV Manufacturers Cautiously Optimistic
European commercial vehicle manufacturers are cautiously optimistic about production and sales in 2010 and 201...
Old Dominion Opens Two New Service Centers
Old Dominion Freight Line Inc. has opened two new service centers – one in Houston, Texas, and one in Kalamazoo, Mich., allowing the company to better serve customers in the two areas...
PacLease Adds 23 New Locations
PACCAR Leasing Company has opened 23 new locations throughout the United States, Canada and Mexico...
New Website for Green Products and Technologies
The Green Truck Association (GTA) has launched www.greentruckassociation.com, a website that serves as the central clearinghouse for the development and deployment of green trucks...
Spartan Motors Sells Road Rescue Assets for $8 Million
Spartan Motors, Inc. (Nasdaq: SPAR) announced the sale of the assets of its Road Rescue ambulance business for $8 million. ...
Kenworth Adds Front Engine PTO Option for T800
Kenworth Truck Company has introduced a new front engine power take-off (FEPTO) option for the Kenworth T800....
Thomas Delivers Hybrid Buses to Kentucky
Thomas Built Buses has begun deliveries of 20 Saf-T-Liner C2ehybrids to 13 Kentucky school districts, with the potential for additional Thomas hybrid bus orders in the near future....
Class 8 Net Orders Up 15%
August net orders of heavy-duty Class 8 commercial vehicles were up 15 percent from August of 2009, according to ACT Research Co. (ACT). ...
Truck Brake Market Has a New Player
Newly formed based Elite Brake Co. has announced it will supply is commercial vehicle brake components. The company stated it is developing a full line of brake block, brake lining, medium-duty hydraulic brake disc pads, heavy duty air brake disc pads as well as new lined brake shoes and kits, remanufactured brake shoes and kits, and complete brake drum kits. ...
Freightliner, Diesel Direct Develop Diesel Electric Hybrid Fuel Truck
Diesel Direct and Freightliner Trucks have combined to develop what they say is the first-ever diesel electric hybrid fuel truck – a Freightliner Business ClassM2 106 Hybrid that will be used to deliver fuel to fleets primarily in Massachusetts...
Navistar, JAC Sign JVs to Produce Commercial Trucks, Diesel Engines
An affiliate of Navistar International Corporation (NYSE: NAV) and Anhui Jianghuai Automobile Co. Ltd. (JAC) today signed a joint venture agreement to develop, build and market advanced diesel commercial engines in China...
Global Demand for HD Vehicles Up 50% This Year
Global demand for heavy commercial vehicles—designed and equipped to carry a payload greater than 3.5 tons—exceeded 1.7 million units during the first six months of the 2010 calendar year, an increase of nearly 50 percent from the comparable period in 2009, according to Polk...
Medium and Heavy Truck Sales Up 44% in August
Medium and heavy truck sales were up 44% in August over the same period a year ago and down 8% from last month, according to figures compiled by Wards Communications...
Volvo Truck deliveries Surge 62% in August
Total deliveries from the Volvo Group’s truck operations in August amounted to 11,482 vehicles, an increase of 62% compared with the year-earlier period...
Demand for HD Vehicles Driven by Trucker Profit Improvement
A strong rebound in net margins for publicly traded truckload companies in the second calendar quarter is expected to fuel continued improvement in demand for heavy-duty vehicles and trailers, according to ACT Research Co...
Truck Lobbies Merge to Support Higher Weight Limit
Two lobbying groups supporting efforts to raise the federal weight limit on commercial trucks –the Coalition for Transportation Productivity (CTP) and the Americans for Safe and Efficient Transportation (ASET) – are merging under the CTP nameplate. CTP represents a group of more than 160 shippers and allied associations, while ASET represented 40 new shippers, carriers and organizations...
FleetPride Celebrates Grand Opening in Syracuse
FleetPride, Inc. celebrated the grand opening of the expanded Syracuse, NY branch with a ribbon-cutting ceremony, marking the official opening of the 20,000-sq.-ft. facility, included FleetPride local and regional management, as well as Syracuse Common Councilor, Pat Hagan....
Ford Celebrates 50 Years Of E-Series
Ford E-Series, America’s best-selling full-size van for 31 straight years, marks 50 years with production of the 2011 model, enhanced with state-of-the-art technologies at Ford’s Ohio Assembly Plant in Avon Lake....
Isuzu On Tour To Promote Environmentally Friendly New Trucks
The first and only low-cab-forward medium-duty trucks on the U.S. market to meet stringent new 2010 emissions regulations are being featured as Isuzu Commercial Truck of America goes on the ECO-Advantage Tour—a coast-to-coast showcase for the technology found on the 2011 Isuzu NPR ECO-MAX....
Rush Enterprises Finalizes Sale of Construction Equipment Division
Rush Enterprises Inc. (Nasdaq: RUSHA & RUSHB) has completed the previously announced sale of the assets of its John Deere construction equipment dealerships to Doggett Heavy Machinery Services LLC for $26.2 million. ...
Stellar Updates Container Carrier Design
Stellar Industries, Inc. has updated the Stellar Container Carrier line to a modular design, providing improved efficiency in the manufacturing and assembly process and allowing customers to easily upgrade their units as business demands grow. ...
Isuzu Trucks Partners With Truck Web Services
Truck Web Services (TWS), a division of Dominion Enterprises, is partnering with Isuzu Commercial Truck of America, Inc. to increase and enhance the presence of Isuzu dealers on the Web. ...
FTR’s Trucking Condition Index Forecast to Stay in Positive Territory
FTR’s Trucking Condition Index, at 0.8 for July and reported in the September Trucking Update, is expected to remain in positive territory for the remainder of the year. It was the fifth consecutive month that the index had been above neutral....
