The average selling price for Class 8 trucks reached just over $44,400 in February 2014, rising for a second month in a row and setting a new high, but the trend is expected to cool, according to ACT Research. "Despite the record selling ...
Tags: Transportation, Truck, Auto Parts
Trucking industry leaders announced an industry-wide image and education initiative, Trucking Moves America Forward, on Wednesday at the Mid-America Trucking Show in Kentucky. “Today’s modern truck drivers are skilled ...
Tags: Trucking industry, Facelift
According to the J.D. Power 2014 Original Equipment Tire Customer Satisfaction Study, tire quality continues to improve as the number of problems owners experience with their factory-installed tires drops. Study respondents ranked Michelin ...
Protective Packaging developed a packaging solution to help ship the Peterbilt-made Wal-Mart WAVE (Wal-Mart Advanced Vehicle Experience) truck. Set to be revealed at a corporate function, the vehicle required a custom solution to keep it ...
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Road transporters, truck maintenance personnel and drivers will appreciate HexChex, which assists routine wheel maintenance through visual monitoring. A simple walk-around inspection will quickly identify any loose nuts, focusing your ...
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German automobile manufacturer MAN Truck & Bus Deutschland has entered into a cooperation agreement with German power supply company erdgas mobil. As a part of this deal, both companies will jointly market complementary products of ...
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Hankook Tire America Corp. will introduce the Smart Flex DL12 long/regional haul drive position TBR tire at the 2014 Mid-America Trucking Show (MATS) in Louisville, Ky., March 27-29. The new tire will be available in the third quarter of ...
Scania has the environmentally lowest-impact truck in the heavy tractor class, according to the respected German transport trade magazines VerkehrsRundschau and Trucker, which have given the Scania G 410 their Green Truck 2014 award. ...
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According to JMC annual sales report 2013, it sells 230,006 units of complete vehicles, up by 15% year on year. The sales volume of JMC light truck is 79,936 units, JMC pickup 67,733 units (8,985 units are Yuhu pickups), Yusheng SUV 14,160 ...
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Recently, Weichai and Shaanxi Automobile established the first maintenance station in Angola and developed Customer Tour to improve service quality. Thus, good base of exploring Angola market would be well built. It is learned that in ...
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According to a report released Thursday by the US Department of Transportation, three of the five transportation modes--the surface transportation modes of truck, rail and pipeline--carried more US trade with North American Free Trade ...
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Forklifts are powerful industrial trucks which are used to transport and lift materials in distribution centers, construction sites and warehouses. A new trend which is emerging in the forklift services market is automated forklifts which ...
Driving the Future is the latest initiative by the trucking industry to address the shortage of qualified drivers. The three-year project aims to establish the benchmarks for mandatory entry-level driver training across Canada. “We ...
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Con-way Freight is the latest less-than-truckload (LTL) carrier to announce it’s increasing rates. Come March 31, the company will raise its general rate by about 5.4 percent, which will be applicable to non-contractual business. ...
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Michelin North America (Canada) Inc. has begun reducing the production of passenger and light truck tires at its Pictou County plant in Nova Scotia. The reduction will continue through June 30, 2015. The company sites "declining demand ...
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