The Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) of the US Department of Transportation Wednesday released May North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) freight numbers showing that trucks carried 60.8 percent of the $98.6 billion of freight ...
German automobile manufacturer MAN Truck & Bus has secured an order to deliver 440 trucks to multiple customers in Saudi Arabia. The company will deliver 240 MAN TGS type trucks to the food producer Almarai in the region that will be used ...
Tags: Vehicle Supply, automobile
A new easy-to-carry water purifier that could give Marines and first-responders access to clean water wherever they go has successfully completed its first operational test. Funded by the US Office of Naval Research (ONR) and tested this ...
Tags: Water Purifier, Processing Machinery, Industrial Equipment
The dust has settled. Following two years of very strong growth in lift truck sales, shipments leveled off in 2012. With growth at just a fraction of a percent, worldwide sales didn't match the 27% growth in 2011 or the 32% growth in 2010. ...
Tags: Processing Machinery
Inside the Winimac, Ind., manufacturing facility for Braun Corporation, there is a real connection between the workers and the work. As makers of wheelchair- and scooter-accessible vans and lifts, the facility's 250 employees recognize they ...
Tags: Transportation
If you've spent any time in the materials handling industry, it's hard not to fall in love with automation. Still, some great ideas are so simple, yet so effective, that in retrospect you wonder: Why didn't I think of that? The order ...
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The GT Radial Adventuro AT3 features advanced technology including optimized contour and construction, which helps absorb impact shock and vibration from the road, and is the result of the company's finite element analysis simulation ...
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The Ken-Tool 5-bar Super Magnum cage features five mandrel-bent, high-strength 12-gauge, 2-1/4-inch diameter structural steel tubes, welded to a 3/16-inch thick steel plate base with a 2-inch wide, ?-inch thick reinforcing strap welded to ...
VE Commercial Vehicles (VCEV), a joint venture between Swedish automaker Volvo and Indian firm Eicher Motors has commenced production at its new engine manufacturing plant at Pithampur, Madhya Pradesh, India. Set up with an investment of ...
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Arsenal Capital Partners, a leading New York-based private equity firm that invests in middle-market specialty industrial and healthcare companies, has completed the acquisition of ADCO Global Inc., a leading global provider of specialty ...
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Del-Nat Tire Corp. has announced a new company stockholder, Mark Welden, principal owner of Greer Tire in Milwaukee. Welden becomes the 81st stockholder in Del-Nat, a major tire distributor that operates as a cooperative with a network of ...
Tags: Auto Parts
When it comes to shunt trucks, you don't often get splashy new truck launches, complete with elaborate Formula 1-style curtain raisings. What you do get is continuous improvement of existing models. Not a year goes by without some ...
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Freightliner has announced LED headlamps are now standard on its Cascadia and Cascadia Evolution models. The company is the first manufacturer to go standard with the lights, which provide greater nighttime visibility and longer life. ...
Tags: LED Headlights, LED, LED headlamps
Using technology to monitor driver behaviour can result in immediate improvements, but unless there's a benefit to drivers, those improvements may be short-lived. That was what Mike Millian, fleet manager for Hensall District Co-op in ...
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Does your company have a driver retention problem, or is it actually a recruitment issue? Tamara Miller, director of programs and services with Trucking HR Canada said the two causes of turnover should not be lumped together. She noted an ...
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