Daimler Truck Financial has received the highest ranking in the annual dealer satisfaction survey conducted by the American Truck Dealers (ATD), a division of the National Automobile Dealers Association (NADA)
Kansas City-based Smith Electric Vehicles is making the first deliveries of its Newton Class 5 through 7 all-electric truck. Customers for the first six trucks include the Frito-Lay division of PepsiCo, Staples, AT&T, Coca-Cola, PG&E and Kansas City Power and Light, who are all heavily committed to sustainability and low emissions. The Smith Newton is a zero emissions vehicle (ZEV) and fully compliant with California ZEV regulation
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has announced that greenhouse gases threaten the public health and welfare of the American people and that emissions from on-road vehicles contribute to that threa
Trucks carried 58 percent of the freight measured by value between the U.S., Canada and Mexico in 2008, accounting for $554 billion, beating out rail, maritime, pipeline and ai
A research team at the Munich, Germany-based Technische Universitaet Muenchen (TUM) has managed to reduce the pollutants in exhaust emissions to barely measurable levels, just three months after the Euro 5 Norm for exhaust emissions has gone into effec
Navistar International has purchased Continental Manufacturing Company, a privately-held mixer manufacturer, with locations throughout the U.S
Under a new long-term business agreement, Delphi Automotive Systems will supply Allison Transmission with key hybrid drive system components and energy storage systems
The Around The Clock Freightliner Group has built a new 200,308 square-foot complex along Interstate 20 in Dallas, in an effort to better serve its over-the-road and local fleet customers
Software provider Xata Corporation has purchased Ontario-based Turnpike Global Technologies in a $20 million dea
Xata Corporation posted a net loss to common shareholders of $1.6 million, or 19 cents a share, during the fiscal fourth quarter, compared to a net loss of $0.4 million, or 5 cents a share, for the same perio
FTR Associates expects heavy-duty truck demand to fall in early 2010, after EPA 2007 engine inventory is exhauste
While 68 percent of industrial distributors saw sales down from 2008, a total of 65 percent of industrial distributors saw their profit margins increase or remain the same in 2009, according to a recent Industrial Distribution surve
Even as the U.S. trucking industry awaits the final rule on EOBRs from the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, Canada's trucking industry has been battling with some of the same questions. Truckers around the world have used on-board recording devices for more than 50 years. The first electronic device, the Tripmaster by Rockwell (now ArvinMeritor), emerged in the mid-1980s, and the pro and con camps have been split ever since
Navistar's Melrose Park engine plant has received the Illinois Governor's Sustainability Award, for the 14th time
Kentucky Trailer has formed a joint venture with High Tech Performance Trailers to build and sell custom trailers to the motorsports transport, corporate marketing, training, hospitality, mobile marketing and event marketing industries
The new World of Volvo center in Gothenburg, Sweden, is more than just a global meeting center. It's also a museum celebrating almost a century of Volvo cars, trucks, construction machinery and marine drive systems.
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