Automotive Fleet – Volkswagen of America announced the appointment of Mike Peterson to the position of Fleet Account Manager of the Midwest Region, which includes the states of Illinois, Minnesota, Wisconsin, South Dakota, North Dakota, Nebraska, Iowa, Missouri, Kansa, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky, and West Virginia.
Automotive Fleet – Ford captured both Car and Truck of the Year awards for the second year in a row, with the popularity of the Fusion/Fusion Hybrid and the F-150 continuing into the 2012 model-year.
Automotive News – Honda Motor Co. will recall 871,000 vehicles that could roll away after the ignition key has been removed, including 807,000 in the United States, the company said today.
Automotive News -Â The Cadillac ATS, Ford Fusion and Honda Accord were named finalists today for North American Car of the Year, while the Ford C-Max, Mazda CX-5, and Ram 1500 were named truck/utility finalists.
The Brazilian government has announced a $26 billion incentive programme to overhaul and expand the country’s congested ports. In a bidding process that will begin next year, the government said it is counting on an ‘explosion’ of outside
Last week’s Automotive Logistics India conference in Pune revealed that carmakers were willing to work together to make the best of a situation where market volatility, inching regulatory change and huge gaps in infrastructure continued to make things difficult for the automotive industry there to compete globally.
Last week’s sinking of the car carrier Baltic Ace following a fatal collision with the container ship Corvus J in the North Sea has resulted in the confirmed deaths of five crewmen with a further six crew members unaccounted for but presumed dead with no further searches planned.
Commercial Carrier Journal, CCJ –  For the second month in a row, driver turnover at truckload fleets reporting more than $30 million in annual revenue was above 100 percent, said the American Trucking Associations’ Trucking Activity Report.
Overdrive Magazine - The Texas oil and gas field boom of the last few years has also been a boom for much of the state’s economy, and that includes the Rush Truck Centers facility in San Antonio.
