Japanese commercial vehicle manufacturer Mitsubishi Fuso Truck and Bus (MFTBC) along with Daimler Commercial Vehicles India (DICV) have unveiled plans to produce new trucks in India for extport to the Asian and African markets. The export ...
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US carmaker Ford Motors will increase the production capacity at its North American facilities by 200,000 units per year, which adds to earlier capacity rise by 400,000 units in 2012. As part of the plan, production will be increased at ...
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Ford Motors expects that the sale of four cylinder vehicles will soar in the US, powering about 66% of the vehicles. The US automaker said that more than half of vehicles in the country now sport four cylinder engines, which is expected ...
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Penske Truck Leasing has opened a new truck rental, leasing and maintenance facility in Phoenix, US that has a worth of $6m. The new facility has a footprint of 24,000sqft and is built on a 10acres land that is located at 1945 West Hilton ...
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The federal government’s opening of the tender process for the Moorebank Intermodal Terminal (as reported on Transport and Logistics News) has drawn praise from the rail industry, but also attracted criticism for its questionable ...
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To get an idea of how American coastal waters might look just before they succumb to all the degradations they have suffered these past five centuries, it would be worth taking a July trip to Mobile Bay, an Alabama inlet that feeds into the ...
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Spanish caustic soda spot prices have dropped on the week due to ample supply in the Mediterranean, sources said. A Spain-based trade source said spot prices had fallen as low as Eur400/mt on a Delivered Duty Paid [DDP] basis, down from ...
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The Indiana Department of Transportation (INDOT) has added a new facility for winter de-icing operations and salt storage in Wabash, IN. The new tension fabric building, which provides enough capacity to store 3,600 tons of salt, was custom ...
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The Moorebank Intermodal Terminal is being taken to the market with the Federal Government calling for private companies to register their interest in developing and operating the Moorebank Intermodal Terminal. Federal Transport and ...
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An action plan to reduce workplace injury and illness in the NSW road freight transport industry has been launched by WorkCover NSW. The industry is one of the states’ 10 highest risk industries with 5,512 injuries and illness and ...
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The 2013 Budget has failed Australia’s trucking businesses because it does not reverse the government’s plan to extend the carbon tax to the trucking industry, Australian Trucking Association chief executive Stuart St Clair ...
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While the rail industry did not find the budget entirely positive, there are many good points for rail in the Budget. ARA: The Good, the Bad, and the Unknown The 2013 Federal Budget has delivered largely positive outcomes for commuters, ...
We all know the history of the wheel. It has been around for thousands of years. But how long have castors been around? It is typically believed that David Fisher invented the first castors in 1876. The first castor wheels bear little ...
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New funding of $1.7 million recently announced by the federal and New South Wales governments for trials of Cooperative Intelligent Transport Systems (C-ITS) technologies has been welcomed by national peak body Intelligent Transport Systems ...
The president of the Australian Industrial Truck Association (AITA), Steve Stewart, has announced the program for the Safety Week Seminar to be held on Tuesday 4 June at the Novotel Sydney, Rooty Hill, from 9 am to 12 noon. The seminar is ...