Brokerage risk, the Affordable Care Act and the question of safety and insurance – these are three major issues affecting the vehicle haulage business in North America and all three were under discussion at the first meeting of the Auto Haulers Association of America, recently held in Atlanta.
It is hard to find any positive aspects to a recession but if it could do any good it has made stakeholders in the automotive industry aware of how interdependent they are; fertile ground for collaboration according to Scot Sharland, executive director of the Automotive Industry Action Group (AIAG).
Unconfirmed reports coming out of the Geneva Motor show this week suggest that Ford is planning to export its EcoSport SUV from India to supply the European and UK markets later this year. The vehicle went into production at Ford India’s Maraimalai Nagar plant near Chennai for the local market last year. A number of […]
Following President Obama’s State of the Union address delivered in February, ports in the US stand to benefit from a new funding proposal within the Department of Transport for $5 billion directed at infrastructure across the region.
Toyota Motor Corp. appointed former General Motors executive Mark Hogan to its board, installing the first foreigner since 2007 and the first outside director ever in an attempt to breathe fresh perspective into the mammoth Japanese carmaker. The move is part of a sweeping management overhaul that promotes Takeshi Uchiyamada to chairman, switches out more […]
The luxury car unit of Tata Motors is not only investing about £500 million in doubling the capacity of its Wolverhampton engine manufacturing plant, it’s also looking to build cars from scratch abroad.
In a move away from its previous board-controlled approach, Toyota has announced it intends to give greater autonomy and more local control to regional executives and managers so they can ‘provide superior customer-focused products and services’.
General Motors aims to cut the weight of its North American vehicles by as much as 15 percent by the 2016 model year, compared with GM’s current fleet, CEO Dan Akerson said today. GM estimates that a 10 percent reduction in curb weight cuts fuel consumption by about 6.5 percent.
At our most recent Members Meeting, we had a Panel Discussion moderated by Mike Staines of Bill Fralic Insurance Services that was led by Bob Perew, Vin Kellaher, and Jerry Bushey of Carolina Casualty Insurance as well as Joe Morrison of National Transportation Consultants Some of the topics they discussed were: Characteristics of an above average risk […]
