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VIPAR, Meritor offer suppliers 3PL services

VIPAR Heavy Duty has announced a new program with Meritor Aftermarket Services to offer third-party logistics (3PL) services to VIPAR Heavy Duty suppliers...

Volvo provides XE13 powertrain package

Already delivering up to an 8% fuel efficiency improvement over EPA 2007 engines, Volvo Trucks announced a powertrain package for its VN series tractors aimed at reducing fuel consumption....

Heavy-duty truck engine quality improves; satisfaction increases from 2010: survey

Heavy-duty truck engine quality has improved from 2010, after technology changes related to emissions standards revisions caused a spike in engine-related problems during recent years, according to the recent J D Power and Associates 2011 US Heavy-Duty Truck Engine and Transmission Study...

Fair Oaks Farms leases
42 CNG-powered trucks
provided by PacLease

Fair Oaks Farms and Paccar Leasing Company (PacLease) have entered into a full-service lease agreement for 42 new Kenworth T440 tractors powered by Cummins Westport ISL-G compressed natural gas (CNG) engines....

C R England Dedicated
enters leasing agreement
for LNG-powered tractors

C R England Dedicated, a division of temperature-controlled carrier C R England Inc, and Paccar Leasing Company (PacLease) have entered into a full-service lease agreement on new Kenworth T800 tandem-axle day cab tractors powered with the Westport GX 15-liter LNG (liquefied natural gas) engine....

Normandin Transit prefers
fuel-efficient Kenworth
trucks for its operations

One of the 10 largest fleets in Quebec—and possibly the greenest—Normandin Transit operates 275 trucks, all Kenworths....

Cummins Care supplies 24/7 response

Cummins Inc has launched Cummins Care, an enhanced customer assistance program providing 24/7 response. The new program is the latest addition to the operation at the new Cummins Customer Support Center in Nashville TN....

Scania collaborates
in research to develop
biofuel-based engine

Scania has been granted SEK 30 million—about EUR 3.3 million—by Sweden’s Strategic Vehicle Research and Innovation Initiative (FFI) to develop a biofuel engine intended for heavy commercial vehicles. This research will show how the best characteristics of the diesel and the Otto principle can be combined in an engine that can operate on both alcohol- and gaseous methane-based fuels...

Truck engine problem
rates in 2010 accelerate,
J D Power study reveals

After two rounds of revisions in emissions standards since 2004, problem rates for heavy-duty truck engines in 2010 are nearly twice as high, on average, as rates for engines manufactured prior to these emission changes, according to the J D Power and Associates 2010 US Heavy-Duty Truck Engine and Transmission Study released recently....

Cummins EPA '10 engine
output reaches 26,000

After seven months' production of its EPA 2010-certified and compliant engines, Cummins has built and shipped more than 20,000 heavy-duty and MidRange engines with Selective Catalytic Reduction (SCR) exhaust aftertreatment...

Volvo recalls workers
to New River Valley

Volvo will recall about 270 people to its New River Valley assembly plant beginning the week of September 6 to meet increasing demand for orders. The recall, representing about 23% of the workforce...

Stotesbury Transfer finds
new T800 makes the grade
—in more ways than one

Rob Pettigrew may be pulling a turnpike double configuration load of 90,000 pounds of raw milk with a new Kenworth T800 equipped with an engine that’s new to the North American market—but he doesn’t miss his old truck....

DTNA, Volvo Group dispute
Navistar’s SCR test findings

Daimler Trucks North America (DTNA) and the Volvo Group have responded to Navistar’s recent studies on Selective Catalytic Reduction (SCR) relating to fluid efficiency and emissions...

EPA, CARB proposals
would reassess SCR
compliance regulations

Navistar International Corporation said from a workshop recently that the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the California Air Resources Board (CARB) presented preliminary proposals aimed at the compliance loopholes found in current 2010 liquid-based SCR systems...

Isuzu begins production
of 2011 diesel engines

Isuzu Commercial Truck of America Inc announced that production has begun for the US market’s low-cab-forward medium-duty diesel engines to meet new emissions standards....

Volvo Group produces
300,000th 13-Liter engine

Production of the 300,000th Volvo Group 13-Liter heavy-duty diesel engine was celebrated July 15 during an event in Hagerstown MD, recognizing both the North American team that assembled it and the customer who will put it into service...

Mack engine orders
surpass 10,000 mark

Mack Trucks Inc announced that its orders for Class 8 vehicles equipped with EPA 2010-compliant engines, when combined with those of its sister company Volvo Trucks North America...

EPA salutes Detroit Diesel
plant for energy efficiency

Detroit Diesel’s Engine Manufacturing Center in Redford MI has been recognized by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) as one of the first manufacturing facilities to meet the Energy Star Challenge for Industry...

Detroit Diesel will
invest in engine plant

Detroit Diesel Corporation (DDC) will invest approximately $194 million to expand operations at its manufacturing facility in Redford Township, Michigan. The announcement was made in an all-employee town hall meeting...

VECV will produce
medium-duty engine

The Volvo Group's Indian joint venture company, VE Commercial Vehicles VECV, is to invest a total of SEK 480 M (INR 2.8 bn) in the production of the Volvo Group’s new global medium-duty engine in India...

Peterbilt delivers first
Paccar MX engine

Peterbilt Motors Company recently celebrated the delivery of the first 2010 EPA-certified Paccar MX engine. A Peterbilt Model 386 equipped with the first production MX engine was delivered to McClymonds Supply & Transit Company ...

Paccar MX engine
earns EPA certification

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has certified the Paccar MX 12.9-liter diesel engine to the 2010 emission standards. The MX engine certification and compliance with EPA 2010 emission regulations allows this engine...

ATA supports Obama’s
calls for fuel economy,
emissions standards

Leaders of the American Trucking Associations (ATA) joined President Obama at the White House for his signing of a presidential memorandum that directs the US Department of Transportation and the Environmental Protection Agency to develop national standards for fuel economy and greenhouse gas emissions for heavy- and medium-duty trucks....

Navistar, J B Hunt
reach five-year
supply agreement

Navistar Inc and J B Hunt Transport Services Inc have reached a long-term supply agreement for Navistar to be the principal provider of International brand commercial trucks to J B Hunt through 2014....

Navistar reaches
agreement in SCR
certification dispute

Navistar International Corporation has reached an agreement with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in which EPA promised to hold a public workshop or hearing to address issues Navistar raised in its federal court appeal of EPA’s certification policies for SCR-equipped diesel-powered trucks....