Driven by lower costs and emissions, the trucking industry is slowly shifting towards natural gas engines. A report by Navigat Research, a consulting team that analyzes global clean technology markets, forecasts that sales of natural gas ...
Daimler Trucks North America (DTNA) has announced it will begin rewarding customer loyalty through its Truck Bucks program. The program will reward customers with parts and service specials from Freightliner, Western Star, Detroit and ...
Tags: Transportation, Auto Parts
Clip-Lok SimPak has designed new boxes to transport heavy glass loads for a new line of heavy duty trucks. Clip-Lok boxes, which are part of heavy duty truck logistics, are flat-packable and reusable. The collapsible Clip-Lok 2P box, ...
Tags: Heavy Glass Loads, Packaging
The firm will introduce its new 2014 ranges to the trade at London Toy Fair Playmobil is celebrating its 40th anniversary this year with the launch of new celebratory ranges at the London Toy Fair. In what the firm has already billed as ...
Cummins has confirmed to US trucking publication Commercial Carrier Journal that it will be putting development of its 15-litre natural gas engine on hold, leaving the market devoid of a 15-litre product after Westport announced last year ...
Tags: Cummins, Nat-Gas Engine, Market Devoid of a 15-litre Product
Continuing to diversify its truck portfolio, General Motors on Sunday showed off the second of its smaller trucks, the GMC Canyon, at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit. GM is convinced that America’s love affair ...
Tags: GMC, Big trucks, Kelley Blue Book, Canyon
As open as the Canadian market is to LNG vehicles, it still pales behind the reception China is giving the alternative fuel. According to Tom Campbell, head of analysis at Zeus Intelligence, a research company specializing in LNG and ...
Tags: LNG Vehicles, alternative fuel
The U.S. economy continued to expand at a moderate pace from November to the end of the year, with reports on transportation services generally positive, the Federal Reserve said. The economic outlook is positive in most of 12 Federal ...
A collaborative 14-year effort involving BASF, automotive and aerospace original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), material suppliers and test equipment manufacturers has resulted in a new American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) ...
Tags: Transportation Coatings, critical coating formulas, new method
Swedish commercial vehicle manufacturer Scania has received an order for 1,500 Scania Euro 6 trucks from British transport companies Eddie Stobart and AW Jenkinson Forest Products. The order was placed under a new joint-procurement ...
German automaker Daimler is set invest EUR190m in its Mercedes-Benz plant in Vitoria, Spain, for the production of medium-size vans. The production is expected to start in 2014. The company will primarily use the amount in the ...
Tags: invest, assembly units
DIEPPE, NB — The Trucks for Change Network is spreading its influence east to help more charities in Atlantic Canada and they have the Atlantic Provinces Trucking Association’s (APTA) backing. Trucks for Change, a broker that ...
Jaclyn O'Laughlin WASHINGTON – The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration is close to releasing proposals to require electronic logging devices in all trucks and to establish a clearinghouse of positive drug and alcohol tests ...
Tags: The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, Anne Ferro
Bob Schatz for TT Commercial truck dealer Rush Enterprises said it has acquired the assets of dealerships in Indiana and Illinois and interests of Idealease of Chicago for $145 million. Rush said its subsidiary acquired assets of CIT ...
A special crop, pulse and canola processor has signed a major delivery contract, thanks to its trucking capabilities. Pacific Coast Canola (PCC), a Seattle, Washington-based subsidiary of Legumex Walker Inc. (which is headquartered in ...
Tags: Canola Oil, Agriculture, Food