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With freight improving but costs still climbing, fleet maintenance executives explain how they're balancing price, quality, and supplier relationships.
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Cummins expects to lose between 35 and 45 cents per share for the fourth quarter of 2000 and plans to take further cost-cutting actions to make up for major drops in demand. Analysts had expected the company to earn 66 cents a share, according to the Wall Street Journal. Shipments of engines for the heavy-duty truck market are down more than 50% below last year, and are currently 5% to 10% below third-quarter levels.
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The Used Truck Association selected its new directors for 2001-2002 during its first annual convention which took place recently near Orlando, Fla
Read More →Kenworth has teamed up with PACCAR Financial to offer inventory reduction deals through two new finance programs. Available for a limited time, each program has been designed to help truck buyers overcome rising operating costs and depressed used truck values
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Transportation.com has had a face lift. In a refreshing change of pace, the new site has abandoned a slick front page for a set of snappy, easily understood and very businesslike choices, among them: shipper’s quick
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The U.S. Department of Justice says the merger of Sweden's Volvo and France's Renault would result in Volvo and Renault's American subsidiary Mack controlling too much of the low cab forward market. Volvo has agreed to a proposed consent decree requiring it to divest its North American low cab forward business before the merger can proceed. Volvo and Renault expect to conclude the transaction by the end of the year
Read More →TMW Systems, the Cleveland-based operations software provider, has released Version 6.1 of its TL2000 product for the IBM AS/400
Read More →Hookup.com, Joplin, Mo., a web-based truck, trailer and equipment auction, reported 2,280 bids in November, up from 150 in August
Read More →The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has a new web site, www.epa.gov/otaq/retrofit, for fleets interested in retrofitting their engines to reduce emissions
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"Solutions in Motion" is the theme of The Maintenance Council's 2001 Annual Meeting March 12-15 at the Opryland Hotel in Nashville, Tenn
Read More →CarrierPoint, the Atlanta-based Internet freight company, announced the first release of DataDepot, a Web-based data warehouse tool
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