President Barack Obama has “serious concern” about Japan’s auto trade policy, a senior administration official said Tuesday. Acting U.S. Trade Representative Demetrios Marantis told the Senate Finance Committee that the administration wants to see Japan make more progress on auto issues. Last week, Japan asked to join the Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade talks, a group of 11 […]
U.S. Sen. Chuck Shumer (D-N.Y.) announced Monday that entry-level CDL holders will be required to be trained to operate global positioning systems, a stipulation that will be included in the upcoming entry-level CDL operator rule that will be released by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration in the coming months.
The National Truck Driving Championships is a competition of professional truck drivers hosted each year by American Trucking Associations. This competition has a long history – dating back to 1937 when it was known as the National Truck Roadeo. The NTDC competitors are made up of the winners in eight classes of competition from 50 […]
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.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Competitive advantage for carmakers is no longer just about quality or the technology used in the vehicle, as the leading manufacturers are already on a level playing field there. Tomorrow’s differentiator is going to be logistics. This will be the rally cry for the industry, according to Michael Robinet, managing director at IHS Automotive Consulting, […]
