Navistar Moving Headquarters to Lisle, Illinois
Navistar Inc. will move its headquarters from Warrenville, Ill., to Lisle, Ill., at the former Alcatel-Lucent East campus on Warrenville Road, with an investment of $110 million in the 1.2 million-square-foot facility...
Hendrickson Launches Lighter Steer Axle, New Lift Axles
A new Steertek front steer axle from Hendrickson Truck Suspension Systems offers weight savings of up to 40 lbs. compared to traditional I-beam axles, said the company....
Sapa Extrusions Launches $10 million Cast House Expansion
Sapa Extrusions-North America has announced a $10 million project to expand casting pit operations at its Cressona, Pennsylvania, plant....
CV Group Partners With Daimler Trucks
Commercial Vehicle Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: CVGI) has entered into an agreement with Daimler Trucks North America LLC, a Daimler company (DTNA), through 2014 to provide products for DTNA's manufacturing facilities in Saltillo and Santiago, Mexico and three facilities in the United States. In accordance with the agreement, CVG will open a new facility near Saltillo, Mexico....
Navistar’s Net Income $137 Million for 3Q
Driven by continued advances in its core business, increased military sales and improvements in its cost structure, Navistar International Corporation (NYSE: NAV) reported net income of $137 million, equal to $1.83 of diluted earnings per share, for the third quarter ended July 31, 2010....
A.M. Haire Phoenix Corp Opens in North Carolina
A.M. Haire Phoenix Corporation, a new company based in Thomasville, NC, started operations today, led by members of the management team of the former A.M. Haire Body Company, Inc., which ceased operations in June 2009...
China’s HD Truck Sales Up 83% in 2Q
Sales of heavy-duty commercial vehicles surged to 316,725 units in the second quarter of 2010, an 83 percent increase from the second quarter of 2009, according to a report published by ACT Research Co., LLC, (ACT) and China's State Information Center ...
Navistar Defense Receives $66 Million in Vehicle Delivery Orders
Navistar Defense, LLC announced that it has received $66 million in delivery orders from the U.S. Army TACOM Life Cycle Management Command. All 492 vehicles will go to support security and rebuilding efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan...
Trailer/Body Builders To Provide Detailed Data On Industry Parts Departments
How did the recession affect dealers and distributors and their parts departments in particular? What effect did it have on sales? Salaries? Inventory levels? Inventory turns?...
Class 8 Net Orders Up 16.8% in August
August Class 8 truck total net orders for all major North American OEMs were 12,337 units, an 8.3% increase over the previous month’s net orders and 16.8% better than August 2009, according to FTR Associates’ preliminary data....
51% of HD Truck Owners Report Engine Problems in 2010
After two revisions of emissions standards since 2004, problem rates for heavy-duty truck engines in 2010 are nearly twice as high, on average, as rates for engines manufactured prior to these emission changes, according to the J.D. Power and Associates 2010 U.S. Heavy-Duty Truck Engine and Transmission Study...
E-Series Van Sales Up 92%
August was a good month for Ford, with sales of E-Series vans up 92% versus a year ago, and sales of the F-Series truck up 5%...
NTEA Expects Mandatory Fuel-Efficiency Standards by 2016 MY
The National Truck Equipment Association (NTEA) expects that the proposed fuel-efficiency standards for medium- and heavy-duty trucks and work trucks would be mandatory by model year (MY) 2016, but voluntary compliance would be allowed for MY 2014 and 2015...
Cummins Pleased With Reliability of 2010 Engines
By Jim Mele, Fleet Owner editor-in-chief
With approximately 12,000 2010 diesels now in service, Cummins Inc. is “feeling really good” about driver satisfaction, initial reliability, SCR system performance and fuel economy, according to Jeff Jones, vp of sales & market communications. ...
Scania Building Wind Tunnel at R&D Center
Scania has decided to build a wind tunnel at its research and development center in Södertälje, Sweden, that will be used for testing such vehicle characteristics as comfort, road safety and environmental performance in different climates....
Used Commercial Truck Sales Up 43% in 2010
Reported sales of used commercial vehicles (Classes 3-8) were off 20 percent in July compared to June, but unit sales were up year-over-year and are still running 43 percent above 2009 on a year-to-date basis, according to ACT Research Co. (ACT)....
SAF-Holland Projects 30% Sales Growth in 2010
SAF-HOLLAND S.A. expects 30% sales growth to over $698 million in the current fiscal year, after reaching $532 million in 2009...
Record Level Reached in Used Commercial Vehicle Registrations
There were 354,400 used commercial vehicles (GVW Class 3-8) registered in the U.S. during the first two quarters of 2010 -- a record for a six-month time frame, according to Polk, which provides data-driven solutions for the commercial vehicle industry...
Hino Debuts 2011 Truck at West Virginia Plant
Hino Motors Manufacturing unveiled its 2011 model-year truck at the assembly plant in Williamstown, West Virginia, in a ceremony attended by Hino executives, Gov. Joe Manchin, Senate President Earl Ray Tomblin, U.S. Sen. Carte Goodwin and other state and local officials...
ATA Truck Tonnage Index Up 1.5% In July
The American Trucking Associations’ advance seasonally adjusted (SA) For-Hire Truck Tonnage Index increased 1.5 percent in July, although June’s reduction was revised from 1.4 percent to 1.6 percent. The latest improvement raised the SA index from 108.3 (2000=100) in June to 110 in July...
Fuel Efficiency the Focus of TMC Meeting
A special session to be held at the Technology and Maintenance Council’s (TMC) 2010 Fall Meeting will address a large truck fuel efficiency study and update attendees on joint EPA/NHTSA rulemaking efforts...
Landoll Corp Honored by Kansas
Governor Mark Parkinson has named Landoll Corporation of Marysville the winner of the Governor’s Award of Excellence, at the annual Kansas Cavalry Encampment at Fort Hays State University....
Net Trailer Orders Up 74% in July
July commercial trailer net orders were up 74 percent from a very weak July of 2009, continuing a healthy rebound from what was one of the worst years in the commercial trailer industry, according to ACT Research Co. (ACT). ...
Interstate Distributor Putting Side Skirts on 2,058 Trailers
Tacoma, WA-based Interstate Distributor Co. is installing Aeroflex side skirts from Seattle-based Freight Wing on 2,058 of its trailers, saying the fuel efficiency gains it’s achieving should more than outweigh the cost of installation within a relatively short time frame...
Cummins’ EPA 2010 Engines Hit 26,000 Mark
After seven months of production of EPA 2010-certified and compliant engines, Cummins (NYSE: CMI) announced that it has built and shipped over 20,000 Heavy-Duty and MidRange engines with Selective Catalytic Reduction (SCR) exhaust aftertreatment, and an estimated 26,000 by the end of August...
