McLeod Software Names Cubine VP of Marketing
McLeod Software, a provider of enterprise transportation, brokerage and document management systems, announces the appointment of Mark Cubine to Vice President of Marketing for the organization. He will be based at the corporate headquarters in Birmingham, Alabama...
Carriers Still Concerned About Credit Availability
Motor carriers are considering engines, EOBRs and credit availability as they plan for equipment purchases in the year ahead, according to the Business Expectation Survey for 2010’s second quarter by Transport Capital Partners, LLC ...
GM’s CNG Vans Ready in the Fall
General Motors has finalized the production process for its Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) powered Chevrolet Express and GMC Savana full-size vans, saying that it will be able to deliver to fleet customers complete vehicles with a fully integrated and dedicated CNG fuel system this fall...
Haldex to Consolidate North American Manufacturing
Haldex Commercial Vehicle Systems will further expand the Monterrey, Mexico, facility by moving all production activities from the Iola, Kansas, manufacturing facility...
Alternative Fuel Workshop Set
The Alternative Fuel Trade Alliance will hold a training seminar July 23 in Casa Grande, Arizona, to cover alternative fuel quality, infrastructure, available vehicles, safety, and environmental impact...
Healthy Rebound Not Happening For European Trailer Market
After trailer markets fell 51% in Western Europe in 2009, it had been hoped that a rebound of well over 20% would materialize, but the first half of 2010 featured an 8% decline from 2009...
Kenworth of Pennsylvania Adds New Dealership in Shartlesville
Kenworth of Pennsylvania has expanded its operation with a new full-service dealership in Shartlesville, featuring a 25,000 square-foot full-service facility located on an 8-acre site...
Equipment Finance Activity Down 30.3% in New Business Volume in 2009
The Equipment Leasing and Finance Association (ELFA) released its 2010 Survey of Equipment Finance Activity (SEFA), which shows that new business volume among a sample of the ELFA member companies declined 30.3 percent in 2009, in contrast to a 2.2 percent decline in 2008...
CONEXPO Tops 2 Million Square Feet in Exhibit Sales
Exhibit space sales for CONEXPO-CON/AGG 2011 have topped 2 million net square feet, with space sales for the co-located IFPE 2011 outpacing the last show and now totaling more than 126,000 net square feet...
Truck sales up sharply In first half of 2010
Retail sales of commercial trucks rebounded nicely in the first six months of this year, according to figures compiled by Wards Communications...
Work Truck Show Heading Back to Indy For Two Years
The Work Truck Show, North America’s largest vocational truck event, will return to Indianapolis, IN, for the next two years...
Production Begins on Isuzu’s EPA 2010 Engines For LCF Medium Duty
Isuzu Commercial Truck of America, Inc. has announced that production has begun on what it calls “the U.S. market’s first and only low-cab-forward medium-duty diesel engines to meet the newest and strictest emissions standards.” The engines are EPA 2010 and CARB HD-OBD compliant as well as Clean-Idle certified...
Mack to Supply Pinnacle Models to Chrysler Group LLC
Mack Trucks, Inc. announced that Chrysler Group Transport has ordered 325 MACK Pinnacle Model DayCab highway tractors. The order effectively replaces Chrysler’s previous fleet operating in the U.S and Canada...
SAF-HOLLAND Hires 83 Production Workers
SAF-HOLLAND S.A. has hired 83 new industrial employees for plants in Keilberg, Frauengrund and Wörth am Main because of increasing utilization of its production capacities since the beginning of the year ...
Roush Unveils Propane Cargo Van
Roush Performance and Heritage Propane are showcasing a propane vehicle that cuts carbon and particulate emissions and reduce operating costs...
Manufacturing Technology Consumption Up 58% In May
U.S. manufacturing technology consumption totaled $178.34 million in May--down 22.9% from April but up 58.6% from the total of $112.42 million reported for May 2009...
Class 8 trucks expected to grow 26% in 2010
Heavy truck production will grow 26% this year, with more modest growth expected for medium-duty trucks, according to ACT Research...
Isuzu Begins Production of EPA 2010 Engines
Isuzu Commercial Truck of America, Inc. announced that production has begun of the U.S. market’s first and only low-cab-forward medium-duty diesel engines to meet the newest and strictest emissions standards ...
Vipar Heavy Duty Increases Presence In West Central Florida
VIPAR Heavy Duty has announced that Fleet Products, a diversified distributor of heavy-duty replacement parts in west-central Florida, is the newest stockholder to join the VIPAR Heavy Duty network of distributors. Beginning with a single location in Tampa, Fla. in 1985, the company has enjoyed steady growth with the addition of locations in Clearwater in 1998 and Lakeland in 2003...
Kenworth Sales Company Opens Parts and Service Location in Utah
Kenworth Sales Company has opened a new parts and service location a mile north of U.S. Interstate 70 in Salina, Utah. The new, convenient location is now less than an hour from truck operators in south-central Utah and provides all-makes parts and service...
Felling Introduces Hydraulic Detach Gooseneck
Felling Trailers unveiled its hydraulic detach gooseneck line, featuring the X-FORCE XF-110-3 HDG-L with a 55-ton capacity...
Class 8 Orders Up 90% in June
FTR Associates has released preliminary data showing June Class 8 truck total net orders for all major North American OEMs at 15,667 units, a 20.5% increase over the previous month net orders and 90.8% better than June 2009...
Pines to Retire as Great Dane President and COO
Great Dane Trailers President and Chief Operating Officer Phill Pines today announced his intentions to retire from the company at the end of 2010, after more than 50 years in the trailer industry...
China Commercial Vehicles Sales Up 165% in 1Q
Sales of heavy-duty commercial vehicles surged to 267,500 units in the first quarter of 2010, a 165 percent increase from the first quarter of 2009 according to a report published by ACT Research Co., LLC, (ACT) and China's State Information Center ...
Risks to U.S. Recovery, FTR’s CV Report Says
Although recent economic data suggests U.S. economic recovery is likely on track, risks do exist, according to latest commentary from FTR Associates...
