Vipar Partners With Accuride In Mexican Heavy-Duty Market
VIPAR Heavy Duty has announced a new program with Accuride Corporation to offer Accuride Wheels and Gunite wheel-end components to the Mexican heavy-duty market...
Spartan Receives Subcontracts from BAE Systems
Spartan Motors Chassis, Inc., a subsidiary of Spartan Motors, Inc. (Nasdaq: SPAR), has been awarded multiple subcontract orders in excess of $27 million from defense contractor BAE Systems, to support the production of advanced tactical vehicles under the Medium Mine Protected Vehicle (MMPV) program...
Peterbilt Parts, Warranty and Service Managers of the Year Honored
PACCAR Parts and Peterbilt Motors Company recognized the 2009 Peterbilt national warranty, parts, and service managers of the year at the Peterbilt Parts and Service Meeting held recently in Kansas City, Mo...
Rush Opens Dealership in Oklahoma City
Rush Enterprises, Inc. (NASDAQ: RUSHA and RUSHB) announced the opening of its new state-of-the-art, 115,000-square-foot facility at 8700 West I-40 in Oklahoma City...
Miller To Present Free Online Welders Webinar
Miller Electric Mfg. Co. will present a free, one-hour Webinar — Keeping Cool: Managing Heat Stress for Welders — on June 23 to discuss the dangers of heat stress in welding environments and how those dangers can be avoided through the use of heat stress control plans and proper cooling equipment...
Rugby Releases New Aluminum Dump Body
Rugby Manufacturing has added a new aluminum dump body to its line of Class 3-5 truck bodies...
TTMA Names New Engineering Manager
The Truck Trailer Manufacturers Association (TTMA) announced that Michael Daubert is its new engineering manager...
Alternatives-Fuels Package Offered on Super Duty
Ford today told some 500 North American fleet customers that it will begin offering an alternative-fuels engine prep package for its 6.8-liter F-450 and F-550 Super Duty chassis cab...
Navistar Remains Exclusive Provider for Heartland Express
Navistar Inc. announced that it will remain the exclusive provider of Class 8 tractors for truckload carrier Heartland Express, Inc. The agreement calls for the delivery of International ProStar+ tractors with EPA 2010 MaxxForce 13 engines...
Hino Trucks Adds Hitachi As Financial Partner
Hino Trucks has entered into an agreement with Hitachi Capital America Corp. that will expand Hino’s current commercial financing options. In addition to Hino’s captive financial partner, Toyota Financial Services, Hino’s dealers and customers will now have access to Hitachi Capital America Corp.’s retail and wholesale financing offerings...
NTDA Convention Sets October Dates
“Helping Trailer Dealers Succeed” is the theme for the 20th Annual National Trailer Dealers Association (NTDA) Convention Oct. 14–15 at the Renaissance Esmeralda Resort and Spa in Palm Springs, CA...
New All-Season Dump Body Released by DuraClass
DuraClass has introduced the Sidewinder Jr. dump body for standard dump use, as well as winter snow and ice control...
May Preliminary Class 8 Orders Below April
FTR Associates has released preliminary data showing May Class 8 truck total net orders for all major North American OEMs at 12,903 units, a 9.8% decline from April. Although May orders slowed from the previous month, year-over-year comparisons show a 74.7% improvement over May 2009...
Fleetwest Introduces Full-Size Removable Utility Body
Fleetwest Transferable Truck Bodies has introduced Load’N’Go, which it says is the industry’s first fully removable and transferable, full-size steel utility body...
Driver Shortage Will Be ‘Huge,’ Experts Warn
By Wendy Leavitt, Fleet Owner director of editorial development
The one problem trucking did not have during the recession was a driver shortage. That chronic complaint was temporarily salved by the simple lack of freight. Returning prosperity, however, also means a return of the driver problem, and it is apt to be significant, according to analyst Eric Stark, president of FTR Associates...
Online Equipment-Rental Marketplace Launched
iRENTequip announced the June 1 launch of an online equipment-rental marketplace designed to enable equipment renters and rental providers in the United States and Canada to be able to connect and do business online at www.iRENTequip.com . The marketplace serves the rental industry for trucking equipment, construction, landscape, agriculture and industrial forklifts...
CAM Superline Unveils Three-Way Dump Trailer
CAM Superline, a manufacturer of equipment, tilt and dump trailers, announced the release of its new Three-Way Dump Trailer...
Kenworth Sales Debuts Parts and Service Facility in Heyburn, Idaho
Kenworth Sales Company has opened a parts and service facility in Heyburn, Idaho...
Hercules Manufacturing Co. Unveils Green Vehicle
Hercules Manufacturing Co. has received five additional orders from Prairie Farms Dairy Inc. for its hybrid Proof of Concept (POC) vehicle...
ATA Truck Tonnage Index Increases 0.9% In April
The American Trucking Associations' advance seasonally adjusted (SA) For-Hire Truck Tonnage Index increased for the sixth time in the last seven months, gaining another 0.9 percent in April...
Volvo to Start Serial Production of Hybrid Buses
Volvo Buses will now commence serial production of its hybrid bus Volvo 7700 Hybrid and the double-decker Volvo B5L Hybrid...
Truck-Lite Adds 200 Employees
Truck-Lite has hired over 100 new direct, full-time employees and more than 100 temporary employees at its Pennsylvania and New York operating facilities since the beginning of the year...
Strick Releases TF1 Furniture Van
Strick Trailers unveiled its latest model, the TF1 Furniture Van, with 100.5 inches of inside width and 4,295 cubic feet of interior volume at 53'...
Commercial Trailer Net Orders Up 3% in April
April commercial trailer net orders moderated from relatively stronger levels in the past few months, rising 3% from April 2009 and dropping 13 percent from last month, according to ACT Research Co. (ACT)...
Hybrid diesel-electric Peterbilts let Tropicana pour on fuel efficiency
Tropicana, a division of PepsiCo, is taking steps to upgrade its chilled delivery fleet operation to models starting with two new hybrid diesel-electric medium-duty Peterbilt trucks, which service downtown Chicago IL....
