The Detroit News: -Â The shortage can be traced to consumers renting replacement cars for their own storm-damaged vehicles and emergency responders and local utilities needing cars and trucks for the recovery effort.
The Detroit News: -Â The shortage can be traced to consumers renting replacement cars for their own storm-damaged vehicles and emergency responders and local utilities needing cars and trucks for the recovery effort.
Six of the 10 issues listed in the National Transportation Safety Board’s “Most Wanted List†for 2013 focus on highway travel, including hope for a mandate for collision avoidance technology for trucks, eliminating distractions like portable electronics and eliminating substance-impaired driving.
Volvo AB said Friday its North American truck deliveries fell 8% in October from a year ago, though year-to-date sales are 23% over the same period last year.
Navistar International Corp. said its first International ProStar Plus Class 8 on-highway tractor equipped with a Cummins ISX15 engine and selective catalytic reduction technology rolled off the production line this week at its plant in Escobedo, Mexico.
Trucking executives grew significantly more concerned about freight volume in October, although the effects of Hurricane Sandy might have played a role. Driver availability remained the top concern of trucking executives in the monthly Randall-Reilly MarketPulse survey of trucking conditions, but the portion most worried about freight volume jumped from just over 14% in September […]
The Trucker Magazine – The National Transportation Safety Board Wednesday released its 2013 Most Wanted List, with six of the 10 issues focusing on highway travel — including what it called “the number one killer on the list — substance-impaired driving,â€
CCJ, Commercial Carrier Journal – The 6-month Kenworth T680 Road Tour featuring the all-new Kenworth T680 has concluded after traveling nearly 26,000 miles to 60 Kenworth dealer events throughout the United States and Canada that drew an estimated 10,000 customers.
Automotive Logistics Magazine – Workers across Southern Europe are staging a coordinated general strike today that has shut car production plants, halted transport links and grounded flights across the region. The action is also hitting ports and customs offices.
Wards Auto – They tried to be something other than vehicle manufacturing companies. When they focused on being banks and mortgage lenders and impressing Wall Street, they took their eye off the ball of their core business. Design faltered, quality slipped and market share skidded. Disaster ensued.