Kögel Adds Three Service Partners in Denmark
Feb 9, 2012
Kögel has comprehensively expanded its service network in Denmark by adding KLC, Jysk Lastvogns & Trailer Service and Horsens Trailer Service as authorized Kögel service partners, joining the two long-standing Kögel partners, B & K Service and Globex...
Waltco Names Miller New President
Feb 8, 2012
Steve Miller has been named president of Waltco Lift Corp and Michael Militello will remain with the company as president emeritus in a non-operational role...
Thomas Built Buses Beefs Up Production Levels, Staffing
Feb 8, 2012
Thomas Built Buses announced plans for another increase in production levels and staffing in response to significant orders for its Saf-T-Liner C2 school bus products from the state of North Carolina and other customers...
Preliminary Class 8 Orders Down 9% in January: FTR
Feb 7, 2012
FTR Associates’ preliminary January Class 8 truck total net orders are 24,906 units for all major North American OEMs—down 9% from January 2011 and down 17% month-over-month from December...
M & K Relocates, Adds Trailer Sales in Michigan
Feb 7, 2012
M & K Quality Truck Sales, based in Byron Center, Mich., is relocating its existing collision repair center to its new location, M & K Truck & Trailer, LLC, in Wyoming, Mich...
January’s Class 5-8 Net Orders Meet ACT’s Expectations
Feb 6, 2012
Preliminary North American Class 5-8 truck net orders for January were generally in line with expectations, as reported by ACT Research Co., LLC (ACT)...
ATA Lauds Approval of Transportation Bill
Feb 6, 2012
American Trucking Associations President and CEO Bill Graves said the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee’s approval of the surface transportation bill will “advance the cause of highway safety.”...
Cummins Receives EPA’s Certification For School Bus Market
Feb 6, 2012
Cummins Inc. (NYSE: CMI) said it has received certification from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the California Air Resources Board (CARB) for two new school bus ratings...
Fontaine Modification Reaches Safety Milestone
Feb 6, 2012
Fontaine Modification’s Charlotte, N.C., headquarters celebrated the facility’s 1,000th day without a lost time accident...
Wisconsin Kenworth Opens New Full-Service Location in La Crosse
Feb 6, 2012
Wisconsin Kenworth has opened a 15,200 square-foot full-service operation in La Crosse, joining a Kenworth dealer network of nearly 320 locations in the United States and Canada...
Navistar Expects to Avoid EPA’s Engine Penalties
Feb 3, 2012
Navistar faces stiff fines from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for engines that do not meet 2010 emissions standards, but the company told analysts during a meeting at its new headquarters in Lisle, IL, that it probably won’t have to pay them – largely because it just submitted its 13L engine to the EPA for emissions certification...
Truck Shipments Deferred Due to Potential Bendix ATR-6 Valve Defect
Feb 3, 2012
Bendix has identified a potential defect in its ATR-6 valve manufactured between December 2, 2010, and January 18, 2012, and has advised the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration ...
Haldex Relocates Harrisburg Center
Feb 2, 2012
Haldex has relocated its Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Friction Center to a new facility in Middletown, increasing production capacity with an improved layout to optimize process flow and adding a specialized transit shoe production cell...
Fleet Brake to sell Certain Assets to FleetPride
Feb 2, 2012
Fleet Brake USA LLC announced that an agreement in principle has been reached with an affiliate of FleetPride, Inc. to sell the certain assets in Utah and Idaho ...
FTR’s Trucking Conditions Index Rises for Third Straight Month
Feb 2, 2012
FTR’s Trucking Conditions Index, as reported in the February 2012 Trucking Update, increased in December to a reading of 7.0—the third consecutive month that the reading has increased, reflecting an improving climate for truckers as U.S. economic fundamentals strengthened during the fourth quarter of 2011...
Great Dane plant builds 100,000th trailer
Feb 2, 2012
Great Dane has now built more than 100,000 trailers at its van plant in Terre Haute, Indiana. ...
Polar Tank Names Painter President
Feb 1, 2012
Polar Corporation appointed Jim Painter president of Polar Tank Trailer, North America’s largest manufacturer of aluminum, stainless steel, and carbon steel tank trailers...
EPA to Penalize Non-compliant 2012, 2013 Engines
Feb 1, 2012
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued an interim rule (IR) to make nonconformance penalties (NCP's) available to manufacturers of heavy-duty diesel engines in model years 2012 and 2013 for emissions of oxides of nitrogen ...
East names Worldwide Equipment New Trailer Dealer
Jan 31, 2012
Worldwide Equipment Inc., a truck equipment company with 15 full-service dealerships in six states, has been named an authorized dealer for East Manufacturing...
Fleet Brake Named 2011 Co-Distributor of the Year
Jan 31, 2012
HDA Truck Pride member, Fleet Brake Parts and Service, Calgary, AB, Canada, was named Truck Parts & Service Co-Distributor of the Year at the 2012 Heavy Duty Aftermarket Week at The Mirage in Las Vegas...
ATA Makes Law Department Moves
Jan 31, 2012
American Trucking Associations President and CEO Bill Graves announced the promotion of Prasad Sharma to senior vice president and general counsel and the hiring of Richard Pianka as the association’s new vice president and deputy chief counsel...
Odyne Systems Delivers Plug-In Hybrid Propulsion Systems
Jan 30, 2012
Odyne Systems has delivered seven trucks featuring the Odyne advanced plug-in hybrid propulsion system to utilities and municipalities throughout Wisconsin, and also has delivered the first digger derrick featuring the system to Commonwealth Edison Company (ComEd), one of the largest utilities in the United States...
Freight Railroads to Invest a Record $13 Billion on Capital Expenditures
Jan 30, 2012
The nation's major freight railroads are projected to invest a record $13 billion in capital expenditures in 2012 to expand, upgrade, and enhance the nation's freight rail network, the Association of American Railroads (AAR) announced...
TransAxle Receives Remanufacturer of the Year Award
Jan 30, 2012
The Automotive Parts Remanufacturers Association (APRA) awarded TransAxle LLC its prestigious “Mike Hill Heavy Duty Remanufacturer of the Year” Award, given to a company or individual demonstrating innovative ways to create and grow a successful business model and in the process, supported industry efforts to advance the science of remanufacturing...
Stoughton Adds Dealership in Canada
Jan 27, 2012
Stoughton Trailers has added a Canadian dealership to its network and added two to its sales force...
