PORTLAND, Ore. – Daimler Trucks North America LLC (DTNA) and Walmart have collaborated to build the first-ever hybrid electric Freightliner Cascadia®. This truck also marks the beginning of a long-term strategic partnership between DTNA and Walmart to develop innovative, green technologies.
Developed based on a Walmart spec’d truck, the 72-inch raised roof Detroit Diesel DD15®-equipped Cascadia [...]

“The safety systems in today’s trucks dramatically reduce the risk of road accidents. Now the big challenge is to put the safety argument across to more customers,” says Carl Johan Almqvist, Traffic and Product Safety Director at Volvo Trucks.
In the Netherlands, Volvo Trucks is collaborating with its dealers to test new ways of raising customer [...]

This is a revolutionary step in the development of gas use in heavy vehicles, since trucks running on liquid gas combined with methane diesel technology has up to four times longer driving range compared to most traditional gas trucks.
“Increased use of gas is a bridge towards climate-neutral transports,” comments Lars Mårtensson, Environmental Director at Volvo [...]

New home sales increased in September, the second month of growth in a row, the Commerce Department said Wednesday.
Sales grew at an annual rate of 307,000 units, still close to the record low of 282,000, reached in May.
Economists had forecast the rate to rise to 300,000 units, Bloomberg reported.
Sales rose in three of four national [...]

Vanner (Hilliard, OH), a worldwide manufacturer of power conversion equipment, recently unveiled its new IdleWatch “Hybrid” Idle Reduction System to the Canadian market. IdleWatch helps meet Canada’s strict idling regulations, while increasing battery life and improving fleet efficiency. Its rugged design dramatically cuts down on idle time for trucks, while monitoring battery life.
To help increase [...]

Renault Maxity is available in many different versions. The Italian company, Socage, has just purchased 300 of them in the 3.5 ton version to fit them with its lifting platforms and, in particular, the latest generation platform which reaches 24 metres, a record for the segment. “The manufacturers of aerial platforms are most interested in [...]

Arlington, Va. – Building on its progressive sustainability platform, the American Trucking Associations (ATA) this week adopted a carbon emissions control policy supporting a national fuel economy standard for trucks, rather than government actions to increase fuel prices or alternative fuel mandates. The policy states that “carbon emission reductions achieved through national truck fuel economy [...]

ARLINGTON, Va. — The American Trucking Associations announced Larry Davis, President, Ohio Trucking Association, was awarded the ninth annual ATA President’s Annual TAEC Leadership Award at ATA’s Management Conference & Exhibition Oct. 16-19 in Phoenix, Ariz.
The award recognizes the state trucking association that has gone above and beyond in its support of American Trucking Associations, [...]

India - Bangalore (India) will host a conference dealers joint Russian-Indian company “KAMAZ Vectra Motors Limited (KVML).
At the conference will bring together representatives of 12 Indian companies, dealers in 12 states. The event was also attended by representatives of KAMAZ and supplier companies KVML, organizations, funding of Indian consumers who buy KAMAZ local production.
At the [...]

It is this kind gifts, according to Director of Special Projects Ltd KAMAZ-Catering Sergei Finkelstein, received the Greatest number of points on the tender commission, which was submitted to the attention of 32 types of packaging, and 17 sets of 14 confectionery companies from Samara, Krasnoyarsk, Moscow, Ulyanovsk, St. Petersburg and other Russian cities.
Much of [...]