Scania AB (SCV-A.SK) plans to produce about 2,000 heavy trucks as well as 1,000 inter-city buses each year at its first factory in India, the Swedish company said Tuesday. Scania, majority owned by Germany's Volkswagen AG (VOW.XE), has ...
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A survey of more than 4,000 truck drivers in the US has provided further evidence that the new US hours-of-service rules are costing the industry financially, and could even be negatively impacting road safety. The Owner-Operator ...
Tags: Transportation, trucking
Mike Stolz, product manager at Cooper, says the Courser MXT's deep, functional “side biter” design enables the tires to propel through tough off-road conditions. Cooper Tire & Rubber Co. has introduced a Mastercraft premium ...
Tags: SEMA, Cooper, Mastercraft, MXT
Mobile Awareness' MobileTRAQ Vue with TireStat TPMS sensors is upgradable to meet future needs. Mobile Awareness LLC, a provider of transportation safety products, is offering the MobileTRAQ Vue, integrated with TireStat TPMS sensors, an ...
Double Coin Holdings Ltd. wants its fleet customers to bet on the Smart Money. Double Coin and its American subsidiary, China Manufacturers Alliance LLC (CMA), have launched the Smart Money Fleet Program for their national fleet accounts. ...
Hercules Tire & Rubber Co. announced the opening of a newly relocated Tire Dealer’s Warehouse (TDW) in Houston, Texas, on Nov. 18, and a new TDW location in Seattle, Wash., in Dec. 2013. The 46,000-square-foot facility in north ...
Tags: Hercules, TDW Locations
If you wanted to check out tire suppliers, the 2013 Global Tire Expo in Las Vegas was the place to go. Almost every type of tire was there, from passenger and light truck to ag, OTR and industrial. The domestic marketing arms of some of ...
Tags: Tires, Light Truck Tires
According to the statistics released by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TUIK), in September of the current year new motor vehicle registrations in Turkey increased by 12.20 percent year on year to 95,204 units, up 10.35 percent on ...
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Managing fuel economy, services charges, part prices and downtime are all an integrated function of the total cost of ownership (TCO) for any fleet, so at Daimler, cis one standout method they have employed to offer the best in customer ...
A debate has been raging within the pages of Truck News in recent months, about the need for heightened standards within the entry-level commercial driver training industry. Currently, the Ontario Ministry of Training, Colleges and ...
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Westmount, QC— The city of Westmount is installing cameras and mirrors on nearly all of its snow-removal trucks, in an effort to improve pedestrian safety. Marianne Zalzal, Westmount's director of public works, says blind spots ...
Drivers are more tired. They’re making less money. The carriers they drive for are less productive and they need more drivers to haul the same amount of freight. That, according to a new survey, is all a result of the changes to the ...
The largest tanker carrier in North America, Kenan Advantage Group (KAG), based in North Canton, OH, has purchased one of Canada’s largest bulk carriers RTL-Westcan Group. RTL-Westcan runs tanks through western and northern ...
Tags: Giant, tanker, fleet, RTL-Westcan
With a display reminiscent of the parent company's dominating presence at the giant IAA commercial vehicles exhibition in Germany, Daimler Mexico made its intentions clear at this past week's Expo Transporte, the bi-annual Mexican truck ...
Firefighters from across Wellington County rushed to Dickson Drive in Fergus to extinguish a fire that destroyed the main shop buildings at Vandermarel Trucking on Saturday morning. Despite their efforts, none of the buildings could be ...
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