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NYSERDA awards $300K
to New West Technologies
for electric trailer project

The New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) has awarded $300,000 to New West Technologies (NWT) of Utica NY to demonstrate the cost and environmental savings of investing in equipment to support electric-powered refrigerator trucks....

Utility Trailer Mfg Co
launches mobile website

Utility Trailer Manufacturing Company has launched the mobile version of its corporate website....

Jim Pines stepping down
from Great Dane Trailers

Great Dane Trailers announced that Jim Pines, executive vice-president of sales and operations, will step down from his role at the end of 2011 in order to devote his full attention to personal and family business concerns....

Meritor’s MTA suspension
family adds two members

Meritor Inc has unveiled the newest suspension family members—the MTA25 (25,000-lb capacity) and MTA30 (30,000-lb capacity)—to its line of trailing-arm air ride trailer suspension systems....

Johnson appoints Cote

Johnson Refrigerated Truck Bodies has appointed Dolores Cote leasing manager/regional sales manager in the Northeast....

Plane crash claims former
Great Dane leader Pines

Phillip Pines, Great Dane’s former president and chief operating officer, died the night of September 5, 2011, in a plane crash near Racine WI. He was 76. ...

BioStorage showcases
mobile biorepository
for relocating samples

BioStorage Technologies showcased Relofleet, the first mobile biorepository designed specifically for sample relocation within North America, at the recent Drug Information Association (DIA) annual meeting....

Utility enhances website,
smartphone capabilities

Utility Trailer Manufacturing Company has launched a new corporate website, a mobile smartphone-friendly dealer directory, and new Quick Response (QR) codes....

For durability, saving fuel,
rapid ROI, these skirts
impress reefer carrier

Bob Holman likes skirts on his trailers, and he has good reason to. The side skirts, or fairings, manufactured by Freight Wing and installed on most of the trailers in his fleet, are saving fuel and proving durable, even through a recent brutal winter....

Commercial trailer orders surge in February

Net orders of commercial trailers rose to 21,990 in February 2011, a gain of more than 25% from January. ACT Research Co also reported solid factory shipments in February, posting a 105% gain versus the same month in 2010....