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Volvo truck deliveries down by 4% in the month of April
Swedish truck maker Volvo AB said on Wednesday that it had delivered about 18,497 trucks in the month of April, down from 4 percent from April 2011. The deliveries for Europe had declined 22 percent to about 6,776 vehicles. The deliveries had declined 27 percent in Western Europe & fell 2 percent for the Eastern Europe. The deliveries for North America were increased 39 percent to about 4,712 automobiles for the month of April.
For Latin America, the deliveries had declined 30 percent to 1,630. For Asia, this group had delivered about 4,066 units, up 9 percent. The deliveries of the trucks by Volvo brand in the month of April decreased by 11 percent to about 8,448. Production for Europe will be increased moderately during 3rd quarter for adapting to the demand and for keeping the times [...]
May 17th, 2012 | News, Volvo
Show organizers say that Truck World was a success
Above 19,000 people had attended the Truck World in last month and this made it “best show till now,” say the organizers of the show.
Joe Glionna, who is director of the Truck Group of Newcom Business Media’s, said that the strong attendance which had come on heels of record-breaking turn out for Fleet Managers’ break fast which preceded this show. This show was attended about 19,256 had attended this show and they were a bit less as compared to the overall attendance of the Truck World Show of 2010. The organizers also said that the biggest drop was seen on Saturday.
This show had attracted more than three hundred executives to breakfast of Fleet Managers and there were about 357 exhibitors had participated in this show. The organizers of this show had announced signings [...]
May 12th, 2012 | News
Atlanta Food Truck Park temporarily closed due to permit issues
Last fall, food community at Atlanta had won a very important battle in struggle for making more business friendly environment in the city for the food trucks & mobile vendors. The Kwanza Hall Ordinance of Food Truck, passed along with 15-0 vote in last September, relaxed significantly some key regulations of vending which were previously made successful operation of food truck at Atlanta almost impossible.
But, 8 months later, we are now seeing that putting of the new policies in to practice still has got its own share of the road blocks.
Last Thursday, Atlanta Police Department License & Permits unit had arrived at Atlanta Food Truck Park & started shutting down the trucks left & right. This park on the Howell Mill Road, 1st permanent truck park of food at Atlanta opened [...]
May 11th, 2012 | News
Preliminary orders for truck remain soft in April
Preliminary North American net orders for the medium- & the heavy-duty trucks got down in the month of April, according to a survey.
Analyst had reported that there were around 17,200 orders of Class 8 & 8,600 medium-duty orders for truck placed in the month of April.
Kenny Vieth, the president & senior analyst says that the orders continued coming in below level that was ultimately needed for sustaining the current build rates. The conditions which contributed to this soft patch which started in the month March were in the play in the month of April, including the higher prices of diesel & new truck. Apart from that, the data which we they predicted remained healthy. Over all economy & in particular manufacturing sector, is growing and the profits of truckers too are healthy, [...]
May 5th, 2012 | News
Kicker expanding the kits of OEM-upgrade
Kicker started shipping the kits OEM-upgrade for Ford F-150, GMC Sierra, and Chevy Silverado trucks. The kits are for 2009-2012 Super Crews F-150 & Super Cabs, 2007-2012 Silverado Crew & Extended Cabs, & the 2007-2012 Sierra Crew & Extended Cabs.
By this June, the company is planning to ship the for 2012 Chevy Sonic, the 2011-2012 Chevy Cruze & the 2010-2012 Chevy Camaro. This company offers already some kits for 2006-2012 Jeep Wrangler & 2005-2012 Ford Mustang. These kits are now available @ the authorized dealers of Kicker & some Ford & GM dealers all over North America @ the suggested retails which vary according to vehicle. The kits of upgrade for Chevy, Ford, & GMC trucks consist of ten inches subwoofer in OEM-quality, enclosure that is made-to-fit along [...]
May 2nd, 2012 | News
Mack names Saskatchewan dealer as top distributor of Canada
Mack Trucks recently named Redhead Equipment in Regina, Sask. as the Distributor of Year in Canada for 2011.
Annual award has recognized distributors who are top-performing with in Mack’s dealer network for North America. The criterion for selection includes sales, facilities, service, personnel, parts, customer satisfaction, general management, & community service.
5 other dealers too got listed as the regional winners, and this includes winner of Northeast Region – TransEdge Center of Truck at Pittsburgh in Pa., which too got named as the top distributor in all of the North America.
Kevin Flaherty, who is president @ sales marketing for North America at Mack said that they are really proud of all award winners & entire dealer network at Mack for the dedication to the [...]
April 27th, 2012 | News
Construction starts at new Cordelia scales of truck facility at Fairfield
Right now, it is pretty vacant, but the motorists of Interstate 80 close Fairfield will soon get to see the crews clearing the brush & preparing this site for new $100 million complex of truck.
Caltrans & some other agencies on Friday had broken ground on I-80 east bound Cordelia scales of truck relocation project at Fairfield. Once this work starts, the construction on facility will proceed fairly quickly, says Vince Jacala, who is spokesman for Caltrans District 4.
Jacala says that it will be going up really fast adding the Caltrans estimates that work will get completed in around one year.
New scales project truck is 2nd big project of transportation construction for getting under way. In the last month, the officials had broken ground for Jameson Canyon High way 12 widening the [...]
April 26th, 2012 | News
Ford invests $760 million for new plant in China
Ford said that new plant @ Hangzhou @ province of Zhejiang will initially boost annual capacity of U.S. automaker at China by around 250,000 automobiles when the production starts in the year 2015. The construction will start later in 2012.
Announcement had come about 2 weeks after Ford had said that they would be investing about $600 million for building 3rd plant at the Chongqing complex at south west of China & it is part of fastest and largest expansion by company since 1960s @ Europe and North America. Ford announced or started building 8 assembly & power train plants at Asia.
Chief for Ford Asia – Joe Hinrichs, said in one interview that they are looking more than just this calendar year or this quarter. They are looking at how Ford sets it self up for the success for next [...]
April 23rd, 2012 | News
Daimler Opens Truck Factory in India
DAI or Daimler AG will start making trucks at new factory at southern India starting in 3rd quarter as German company is looking to compete with Tata Motors Ltd. in this growing market.
Maker of Mercedes-Benz automobiles will bring in 17 new models ranging from 6 tons to forty nine tons by the year 2014, says Daimler statements which were released at Chennai recently. This factory will have capacity for making about 36,000 trucks in one year & raising it at 72,000 units, according to this company.
Daimler, is currently spending about 44 billion rupees (or $853 million) in this country and has plans of having around 70 locations of dealer by end of the year for winning customers as this country is building more of roads for boosting trade. This Stuttgart-based firm will be joining Navistar [...]
April 20th, 2012 | News
Medium and Heavy Truck Sales Up 4% in March, 28% for 1Q
Sales of medium & heavy truck increased by four percent in the month of March over same period one year ago & up by 28 percent for first quarter, say the figures which are compiled from Wards Communications.
The dealers had sold about 43,813 trucks along with ratings of GVW above 10,000 pounds in this month up from 2011 March (42,188). For this quarter, total was about 133,311, from about 103,962 for 2011.
As compared to March 2011, the Class 8 automobiles were up by 19 percent (about 15,418, as compared to the 13,010). The Class three and five were only other classes which showed any gain.
For this quarter, the Class 8 had showed largest jump for more than one year ago (47 percent, about 46,845 as compared to about 31,958). Class five sales increased by 30 percent, Class seven 14 [...]
April 16th, 2012 | News