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NewsDecember 8, 2009

DME Association Forms Committee to Promote the Fuel in North America

The International DME Association has formed its North American Affairs Committee to actively promote the awareness and use of dimethyl ether as a diesel substitute in North America

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NewsDecember 8, 2009

Daimler Truck Financial Ranks Highest in Dealer Satisfaction Survey

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)

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NewsDecember 8, 2009

Smith Throws Switch on All-Electric Trucks

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

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NewsDecember 7, 2009

EPA: On-Road Vehicles Contribute to Threat of GHGs

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

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NewsDecember 7, 2009

Trucks Hauled 58 Percent of North American Freight in '08

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

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NewsDecember 7, 2009

Munich Research Team Tests Low-Emission Engine

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

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NewsDecember 7, 2009

Navistar Adds Concrete Mixer to Portfolio

Navistar International has purchased Continental Manufacturing Company, a privately-held mixer manufacturer, with locations throughout the U.S

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NewsDecember 7, 2009

Delphi to Supply Hybrid System Components to Allison

Under a new long-term business agreement, Delphi Automotive Systems will supply Allison Transmission with key hybrid drive system components and energy storage systems

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NewsDecember 7, 2009

ATC Freightliner Builds New Complex

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

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NewsDecember 5, 2009

Xata Buys Turnpike Global in $20 Million Deal

Software provider Xata Corporation has purchased Ontario-based Turnpike Global Technologies in a $20 million dea

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