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NewsMarch 11, 2011

Strong Commercial Vehicle Order Intake Reiterates Current Market Strength

The fundamentals that support heavy-duty commercial vehicle demand continue to signal the start of an up-cycle for the market, according to ACT Research Co

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NewsMarch 11, 2011

Hendrickson Announces So-Cal Training Sessions for April

Hendrickson has scheduled its next round of technical suspension training for the heavy-duty transportation industry with its eighth edition of the Hendrickson Vehicle Suspension Institute (HVSI)

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NewsMarch 11, 2011

Why Low Cabovers in a Conventional-Cab Market?

Why do the Japan-based importers continue trying to sell low cab-over-engine trucks when North America is conventional-cab territory? The short answer is that LCOEs are what they have to sell

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NewsMarch 10, 2011

Navistar Reports 1Q Profit, Before Engineering Integration Costs

Navistar International Corp. reported adjusted net income for the first quarter ended Jan. 31, 2011, totaled $12 million, equal to $0.16 diluted earnings per share, excluding the impact of costs to integrate its truck and engine engineering operation

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NewsMarch 10, 2011

Navistar Offers Electric, Hybrid and Natural Gas Power, Hebe Notes

Navistar International has "the broadest, most energy-efficient line of trucks in the industry, helping deliver real-world savings to the bottom line," declares Jim Hebe, senior vice president, North American sales operations, in a statement issued during NTEA's Work Truck Show in Indianapolis.

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NewsMarch 10, 2011

NPR Gas Re-enters Production April 18

Isuzu says its NPR Gas low-cabover-engine truck will return this spring by way of an assembly agreement with Spartan Motors

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NewsMarch 8, 2011

TCP: Just Another Cycle, or New Beginning for Trucking?

"Not since deregulation in 1981 has the trucking industry faced the degree of growing demand coupled with unbridled opportunity, over-written with the degree of uncertainty of new regulations, rising costs and an economy emerging from a recession," begins a new white paper from Richard Mikes and Lana Batts of Transport Capital Partners

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NewsMarch 8, 2011

BAE Developing Parallel Electric Hybrid System for Class 6-8 Trucks

BAE Systems announced a parallel electric-drive hybrid system for Class 6, 7 and 8 trucks that's based on HybriDrive series hybrid that's now working in 3,000 transit buses worldwide

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NewsMarch 8, 2011

Dow Kokam to Power Plug-in Hybrids/Electrics

Dow Kokam, a large-format battery system producer, has signed two new agreements to provide lithium-ion battery solutions to power medium-duty plug-in hybrid electric and fully-electric trucks designated for fleet operations

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NewsMarch 8, 2011

Fuel Economy, CO2 Requirements Won't Add Cost, Suppliers Say

The federal government's planned requirements for minimum fuel economy and limited carbon dioxide emissions will add little or no cost to trucks built starting in 2014 while saving money for buyers, industry consultants said during an opening session of the Green Truck Summit in Indianapolis Monday

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