A Bad End for European Trailer Market 

Dec 2, 2009

The last severe downturn in the heavy goods trailer market was in 1993 – and this one will be worse, according to consulting group CLEAR...

Commercial Trailer Net Orders Stronger in October 

Dec 2, 2009

Net orders for commercial trailers in October increased 80 percent from September and 124 percent from a depressed October 2008, according to ACT Research Co...

SAF-HOLLAND Secures Financing Until 2014 

Nov 30, 2009

SAF-HOLLAND has reached agreement with its banks on a restructuring and extension of the existing $474 million credit line until 2014. Negotiations have been successfully completed...

SAF-HOLLAND Returns to Profitability 

Nov 20, 2009

SAF-HOLLAND S.A. turned the earnings corner in the third quarter, returning to positive adjusted earnings (EBIT). The company benefited from a highly successful restructuring of its operating business with a comprehensive cost-reduction program, as well as a stabilization of sales and first signs of a return to growth in the company’s end markets...

Manac reintroduces composite van trailer 

Nov 11, 2009

Manac Inc has reintroduced the Trailmobile “UltraPlate” composite dry van. This design, along with all manufacturing intellectual property, was acquired by Manac, from Trailmobile Corporation, in September of this year ...

Haldex Updates South Carolina Friction Center  

Nov 11, 2009

Haldex Commercial Vehicle Systems has announced that its brake relining network is undergoing the next planned expansion at the Columbia, South Carolina, Friction Center...

Weak plans for new trailer orders  

Nov 6, 2009

The fourth quarter 2009 FSR Equipment Buying Index fell 23% from the previous quarter to a reading of 68.7, according to CK Commercial Vehicle Research ...

Slow growth seen for truck and trailer sales 

Nov 6, 2009

The recovery has begun according to the latest issue of The North American Commercial Truck and Trailer Outlook published by FTR Associates...

As recovery begins, Latin-Kasper says majority of companies have managed and planned for downturn better than in the early 1980s 

Oct 1, 2009, BY RICK WEBER

National Truck Equipment Association (NTEA) market data and research director Steve Latin-Kasper doesn't sugar-coat it: This recession, he says, is the worst since World War II, and it has damaged the industry...

Collapse Of The Eastern European Transport Market 

Sep 28, 2009

The collapse of the finance market has produced a spectacular result: out of fifteen East European countries, five are forecast to have drops in trailer demand of between 80% and 90%, according to consulting group CLEAR...

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