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Court hears hours-of-service arguments from ATA, FMCSA

The American Trucking Associations’ case against the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s hours-of-service rules set to take effect in July saw action Friday as a three-judge court of appeals in Washington, D.C., heard oral arguments from both sides.  

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Acquisitions help boost top 125 groups

The biggest car dealership groups swallowed a bigger share of U.S. auto sales last year. New-vehicle retail sales for the top 125 dealership groups grew a collective 19 percent in 2012, while the whole U.S. market rose 13 percent. Tallying just the 113 dealership groups that were on the list for both 2012 and 2011, […]

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How automakers and dealers aim to capture the future

Many automakers used to view Hispanic-oriented marketing as a way to drum up extra sales when their marketing budgets allowed. Often their efforts amounted to little more than dubbing Spanish over actors speaking English in TV commercials. Today, they know not to overlook or underestimate what has become America’s fastest growing minority group, a demographic […]

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Carolina Casualty February Newsletter

CAARE Mission Statement Reduce Property Damage and Liability losses by coordinating efforts with the CCI Loss Prevention Department and our insured’s safety management through the exchange of information and services made directly to you on a monthly basis.

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Carolina Casualty January Newsletter

CAARE Mission Statement Reduce Property Damage and Liability losses by coordinating efforts with the CCI Loss Prevention Department and our insured’s safety management through the exchange of information and services made directly to you on a monthly basis.  

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Volvo making Remote Diagnostics standard

Volvo Trucks is expanding Remote Diagnostics to include Volvo-powered Volvo VHD and VAH vocational models, making it a standard feature across Volvo’s entire North American product line. The remote communication platform has been a standard feature on all Volvo-powered VNM and VNL models since mid-2012. Remote Diagnostics helps maximize vehicle uptime by providing proactive diagnostic and […]

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BMW Board of Management gets new representative for Production

Harald Krüger, the Board of Management member currently responsible for the MINI, BMW Motorrad and Rolls-Royce brands and BMW Group Aftersales, will take over from Frank-Peter Arndt, the Board of Management member currently responsible for Production, as he leaves in April.

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GLOBAL ROUND UP

GWM starts shipments with RZD Chinese vehicle maker Great Wall Motors (GWM) has begun shipping Wingle 5 pickup trucks from China to Russia with Russia Railways (RZD). The company is planning to move around 400 vehicles a month from GWM’s plant in Baoding to Gzhel, which is 60km east of Moscow. The shipments are being […]

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CAPACITY AND SAFETY CONCERNS FOR FTA

After several years of discussion the European Union and the United States plan to begin negotiations at the beginning of this summer on setting up a free trade agreement (FTA). The discussions will involve whether the tariffs on vehicles and parts should be lowered immediately or, as with the EU-South Korea FTA, gradually lowered over […]

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