PORTLAND, Ore. – Freightliner Trucks today announced its booth line-up and schedule for the Great American Trucking Show (GATS), at the Dallas Convention Center in Dallas, Aug. 26-28, 2010.
The Freightliner Trucks booth (#12113) will feature the Paralyzed Veterans of America (PVA) truck, a custom Cascadia® designed to honor America’s veterans; a tricked-out Coronado® and a [...]

Dayton, Ohio - 40 joint venture with General Motors for Isuzu DMAX and 60 company, EDT on August 20, celebrated the 10th anniversary of award-winning production of diesel engines.
At a ceremony attended by regional leaders and government, DMAX officials, the company announced that it has produced a total of 1.2 million engines since July 2000. [...]

Model Year Detroit 3500HD Shieradenari 16th -2011, PickupTrucks.com pickup truck trial “Heavy-Duty Shootout” in the category of one-ton diesel, Ford in 2010 and 2011 F-Dodge 350 Ram 3500 exceeded the results, was selected as the best car.
PickupTrucks.com founder, Mike Levine said, “The study also led Shieradenari bear lasting all day, good looks, comfort can drive [...]

Detroit Shiboreshirubarado -2011 Model Year 2500 October 16, Pickuptrucks.com trial pickup truck “2010 Heavy-Duty Shootout” in three popular / department was selected as the best diesel cars four tons.
Type Shiboreshirubarado 2011 2500, the new Duramax diesel engine and Allison transmission equipped models made.
Pickuptrucks.com editor, Mike Levine, “Shiboreshirubarado 2500, the Duramax diesel engine powerful and redesigned [...]

Launched in April, the ‘Kubota On Tour’ (KOT) Vehicle will be the centerpiece of the Kubota Canada display at the 2010 Canada’s Outdoor Farm Show. This year marks Kubota Corporation’s 120 year anniversary in Japan since the company’s founder, Gunshiro Kubota, began his business in 1890.
Always trying to have something innovative and new for Canada’s [...]

BATTLE LAKE, Minn. – It’s not often that you’ll hear a truck dealer say “wait.” But, that’s just what Lavel Larson, an owner-operator from Battle Lake, Minn., heard when he visited his dealer to buy a new truck.
Larson, who is leased to Valley Express and makes runs to California and the West Coast, was operating [...]

KIRKLAND, Wash. – Kenworth Truck Company now offers the Takata SafeTraK 3 lane departure warning system as an option for the Kenworth T700.
The system combines an interior, windshield-mounted video camera with vision software to help promote enhanced driver awareness and attention to turn signal usage by sending audio alert notifications of inadvertent lane departures to [...]

ARLINGTON, VA — The American Trucking Associations’ advance seasonally adjusted (SA) For-Hire Truck Tonnage Index increased 1.5 percent in July, although June’s reduction was revised from 1.4 percent to 1.6 percent. The latest improvement raised the SA index from 108.3 (2000=100) in June to 110 in July.
The not seasonally adjusted index, which represents the [...]

U.S. :The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency have sent their proposed fuel economy and emissions standards for medium- and heavy-duty trucks to the White House for review by the Office of Management and Budget.
Details of the proposal were not available.
In May, President Obama ordered the two agencies to cooperate [...]

The Producer Price Index for Finished Goods inched up 0.2 percent in July, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. This marked the first month-to-month gain since March, following a 0.5 percent drop in June and a 0.3 percent slip in May.
The PPI measures changes in prices received by producers of goods and services, [...]