PORTLAND, Ore. – Paper Transport, one of the nation’s leading regional truckload service carriers, recently reached more than 130,000 miles each on its two Freightliner Business Class® M2 112 Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) vehicles.
The Green Bay, Wisc.-based company has used the vehicles to haul freight between Green Bay and Chicago. Since taking possession of the [...]

ANAHEIM, Calif.-The first and only low-cab-forward medium-duty trucks in the U.S. market to meet stringent new 2010 emissions regulations returned November 17th from their nationwide introductory tour. Isuzu Commercial Truck of America, Inc., originally announced the ECO-Advantage Tour-a coast-to-coast showcase for the fuel-sipping, emissions-reducing technology found on the 2011 Isuzu NPR ECO-MAX when the trucks [...]

CleanFUEL USA - a leading supplier of alternative fuel infrastructure and propane engine systems, announced a partnership to build and certify a multi-purpose 8-liter General Motors propane engine with Freightliner Custom Chassis Corporation (FCCC), a subsidiary of Daimler Trucks North America. Featuring CleanFUEL’s new 8L liquid propane injection (LPI) system, the medium-duty engine will offer [...]

A new Volvo truck with a specially built trailer aims to give Sweden’s biathlon team an even better shot at gold. That is the idea behind a new sponsorship agreement between the Swedish Biathlon Federation and Volvo Trucks Sweden. The new truck designed for the team’s ski-wax specialists will be unveiled for the first time [...]

Shell Chemicals and Bertocco have jointly developed a system that in a simple and effective way can help reduce the risk of truck roll-over accidents. That is why the two companies receive the 2010 EuroTra Safety and Innovation Award. The award is given once a year by the European Transport Training Association (EuroTra) in collaboration [...]

Russia - Gala night for general corporate level after the date of the round will take place in cultural and business complex of KAMAZ Inc. at the end of the first work shift. Top managers and employees of service quality will be awarded diplomas and letters of thanks KAMAZ.
Day of the factories and business units [...]

According to the memorandum, the new company will be commissioned in 2012. MMK and OAO KAMAZ will own steel service on an equal footing. Investment in the project will exceed $ 1 billion. Annual production complex for processing hot-rolled steel will amount to 170,000 tons.
Assessing the prospects of the project, Chairman of the Board of [...]

Head of the Republic, accompanied by Director General of KAMAZ Sergey Kogogin and Director General of OOO RariTEK Raphael Batyrshina examined, in particular, the buses running on compressed natural gas (methane). One of the main activities of the enterprise “RariTEK is equipped with gas equipment transportation, and special buses on chassis KAMAZ, as well as [...]

Russia - On the eve of participation in it came to working delegation represented the heads and specialists of scientific-technical, engineering, transportation and other services of the Russian Interior Ministry and its regional structures, one of the major corporate customers of KAMAZ.
Morning, the guests visited the production facilities of KAMAZ and joint Russian-foreign enterprises operating [...]

EU lawmakers this week backed plans to harmonise national reporting on data such as air pollution, green taxes or raw material flows in order to introduce the first ever Europe-wide “environmental economic accounts”.
The European Parliament’s environment committee adopted on 9 November its response to a Commission proposal on the matter.
Lawmakers agree that member states should [...]