Mercedes-Benz do Brasil, a Brazilian subsidiary of The Daimler, has received orders to deliver 2,100 Mercedes-Benz bus chassis from four local transport services in Brasília, Brazil. These orders are awarded in a tender from ...
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The US Department of Energy (DOE) has contracted VIA Motors, an American electric vehicle development company, to develop and deliver electric pick-up trucks and vans to more than 50 participating fleets. As a part of the $20m deal, ...
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Süddekor has announced an expansion to its North American operations slated for completion in October, 2013. A new, state-of-the-art treater that offers a variety of proprietary overlays for high and low pressure laminates will be ...
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Walmart announced two new centers dedicated to filling online orders, including one in Texas and one in Pennsylvania that will be its largest ever. These two new online fulfillment centers are just part of a next-generation fulfillment ...
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Entitled ‘Reshoring and Economic Recovery’, the October 17-18 SPESA Executive Conference will feature presentations and discussions from industry leaders, association and government officials on the most important issues, trends ...
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Navistar International got a much-needed boost last month, securing orders for 5,900 Classes 6-8 trucks in September. That marked the company's best month since December 2011. The order intake included 2,100 medium-duty trucks with the ...
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Legislation proposed by three Republican state lawmakers, dubbed the most draconian ever introduced in the nation to restrict cyclist rights, has been effectively scuttled. More than 250 people filled a meeting room Tuesday night to voice ...
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c, the vocational T880, is now available for order. The truck is aimed at dump, mixer, refuse and heavy-haul applications. The T880 comes standard with the Paccar MX-13 engine rated up to 500 hp and with 1,850 lb.-ft. of torque. "The ...
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Advanced Sports International's Karen Bliss is the newest industry representative on USA Cycling's road committee. Bliss, a former pro road racer, was nominated to the spot by Shebeest national sales manager Dorothy Nichols, who is the ...
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Editor's note: The following blog was written by James Moore, owner of?Moore's Bicycle Shop in?Hattiesburg,?Miss. Moore is the new president of the National Bicycle Dealers Association. When I opened my bike shop in 1984 an eight-year-old ...
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On October 16th, Mike McCarron, the well-known former owner of MSM Transportation will team up with M&A guru Doug Nix for the much anticipated session "Mergers & Acquisitions in Transportation: How big are the opportunities?" at our ...
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Tern is offering share bikes for the?second annual South by Southwest Eco conference, held in Austin this week. For several years, Tern has offered bike shares at Austin's larger SXSW music and technology gatherings held in March. The ...
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Clean Energy Fuels, a provider of natural gas for transportation, has commercially distributed Redeem, a renewable natural gas vehicle fuel that is made from waste streams such as landfills, large dairies and sewage plants, directly to ...
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The bike industry in this famous riding area is scrambling to adapt to the federal government shutdown, which has closed the nearby national parks and other federal facilities during high season for mountain bike tourism. So far, the ...
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Turnover at large US truckload fleets continued to increase in the second quarter, according to The American Trucking Associations' Trucking Activity Report. Turnover in the second quarter rose two percentage points to 99%. "Continued ...
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