Spirit Truck Lines the First to be Equipped with Utility Side Skirts
Utility Trailer Manufacturing Company announced that Spirit Truck Lines will be the first to install the new Utility side skirts on their 2011 trailers...
Class 8 Truck Net Orders Up 20% in February
Net orders for heavy-duty Class 8 commercial vehicles rose to 7,900 units in February, up 20 percent from last month and also from February 2009, according to ACT Research Co. ...
Navistar Receives EPA Certification for 2010 MaxxForce DT
Navistar, Inc. announced it has received certification from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for its 2010 MaxxForce DT Advanced EGR (exhaust gas recirculation) mid-range diesel engines...
Trax Opens Facility In Louisville
Trax Mechanical Systems LLC announced the opening of its first North American manufacturing facility in Louisville...
Oshkosh Defense to Move Into New Facility, Hire 190
Oshkosh Corporation (NYSE:OSK) announced plans for its Defense Division to expand technical operations in Michigan and move into a new leased state-of-the-art technical facility in Warren, Mich., replacing its existing Warren office...
Haldex to Move to Larger Facility in Monterrey, Mexico
The Haldex Monterrey, Mexico, plant, which manufacturers spring brakes and service chambers, will be moving the beginning of the third quarter of this year...
Palfinger Introduces New Line of Bodies, Cranes
Omaha Standard PALFINGER has launched a new line of mechanics bodies, service cranes and air compressors...
FleetPride Acquires Express Truck Parts
FleetPride, Inc., the nation's largest independent aftermarket distributor of heavy-duty truck and trailer parts, announced that it has acquired the assets of Express Truck Parts, Inc. in San Jose, California...
Navistar Parts Offers FSX Cleaning Machine
To provide maintenance of diesel particulate filters (DPF), Navistar Parts has added the FSX Cleaning System to its line of products available through International and IC Bus dealers...
China’s HD Straight Truck Sales Up 22% in 2009
The China medium- and heavy-duty Classes 4-8 commercial truck and bus markets posted strong sales in the fourth quarter of 2009, pushing annual sales to just over one million units for the year, according to a report published jointly by ACT Research Co., LLC, (ACT) and China's State Information Center ...
Medium and Heavy Truck Sales Up 9% in February
Medium and heavy truck sales were up 9% in February over the same period a year ago, according to figures compiled by Wards Communications...
Wabash Hires 100 to Meet Increased Trailer Demand
Wabash National Corporation (NYSE: WNC) today announced that it has hired 100 temporary associates, with plans to hire 90 more during the quarter...
Class 8 Production Projected to Grow 19% in Second Half of 2010
Improving trends in the economy and the onset of capacity tightening in the truckload sector continue to point to stronger demand for commercial vehicles late in 2010 and into 2011, according to ACT Research Co...
GE, Navistar Form U.S. Financing Alliance
GE (NYSE: GE), Navistar International Corporation (NYSE: NAV), and Navistar Financial Corporation (NFC), a wholly owned subsidiary of Navistar, jointly announced an expanded financing relationship under which GE Capital will become Navistar’s preferred provider of retail financing solutions to support sales of Navistar trucks and school buses in the U.S...
Workhorse Delivers First W62 Gas Chassis to UPS
Workhorse Custom Chassis, an affiliate of Navistar International Corporation (NYSE: NAV), is making it easy for customers like UPS to spec the right truck for the job and achieve significant fuel savings with its upgraded W62 chassis for walk-in trucks...
Navistar Introduces International Terrastar Class 4/5 Truck
Navistar (NYSE: NAV) unveiled the International TerraStar Class 4/5 commercial truck, which has a wide range of commercial-duty features—from its commercial-duty MaxxForce 7 V-8 diesel engine to the largest, roomiest cab available...
W&B Service, RETO Named Carrier Transicold Dealers of the Year
One of Carrier Transicold’s longest-standing North American dealerships, W&B Service Company, L.P., of Dallas, was named 2009 Dealer of the Year at Carrier Transicold’s annual Truck, Trailer and Rail dealer meeting. Refrigeración Especializada para el Transporte de Occidente S.A. de C.V. (RETO), Guadalajara, Mexico, was named Latin America Dealer of the Year...
Smith Electric Vehicles U.S. Makes Offer to Buy Smith U.K.
Smith Electric Vehicles U.S. Corporation has made a conditional offer to buy the Smith Electric Vehicles business based in the U.K. from Tanfield Group Plc. The offer is conditional upon successful financing by Smith U.S. and shareholder approvals on the part of Tanfield. The board of Tanfield has granted Smith U.S. a four-month period of exclusivity...
FCCC Unveils All-Electric Walk-In Van Chassis
Freightliner Custom Chassis Corporation (FCCC) introduced its plug-in all-electric walk-in van (WIV) chassis – which it says is the only one domestically engineered and the first in the industry to be completely all-electric (includes HVAC system) in North America...
Gasoline-Powered Chassis Added to FCCC’s Walk-In Van Lineup
Adding to its product offerings for the walk-in van (WIV) market, Freightliner Custom Chassis Corporation (FCCC) introduced its gasoline-powered chassis to the commercial vehicle industry...
Freight Railroads See 1.5% Drop in Carloads
The Association of American Railroads (AAR) reported that in February 2010, U.S. freight railroads saw a 1.5 percent decline in carloads compared with the same month last year and a decline of 15.6 percent compared with the same month in 2008...
Wabash to Build 3,100 Trailers for Swift
Wabash National Corporation (NYSE: WNC) announced confirmation of a three-year purchase agreement with Swift Transportation Co., Inc. which calls for building 3,100 new DuraPlate HD dry vans over the next 12 months...
NTEA Forms New Green Truck Association
At the Green Truck Summit, the National Truck Equipment Association (NTEA) announced the formation of a new affiliate division, the Green Truck Association ...
Isuzu to Resume Production of Gas-Powered Trucks
Isuzu Commercial Truck of America, Inc. has announced that production for its gas-powered N-Series trucks will resume early in the second quarter of 2011 and will be offered as a 2012 model year...
Western Star Introduces 4900 109-inch BBC Model
Western Star Truck Sales, Inc. introduced the updated 4900 FA and SA 109-inch BBC models at the Work Truck Show. Now featuring Allison 3000RDS transmission and Detroit Diesel DD13 engine, Western Star is the only OEM to offer this powertrain combination in a 109-inch BBC configuration...
