Volvo Eicher Commercial Vehicles is now betting on the strong demand for the buses for driving earnings, even as industry has grappled along with the sluggish sales of the medium & heavy duty trucks for this year. The domestic sales of bus of the VECV, which is joint venture amidst Volvo Group & Eicher Motors, have now accelerated by around 42 percent year-on-the-year for 4,826 units till now in the year 2012. [...]
Volvo Eicher Commercial Vehicles is now betting on the strong demand for the buses for driving earnings, even as industry has grappled along with the sluggish sales of the medium & heavy duty trucks for this year. The domestic sales of bus of the VECV, which is joint venture amidst Volvo Group & Eicher Motors, have now accelerated by around 42 percent year-on-the-year for 4,826 units till now in the year 2012. The surge is driven by the demand of strong replacement by the under takings state transport. Vinod Agarwal, the CEO at VECV, told that For this year bus market is now doing really well even though market of truck is now down. The undertakings of state transport are now renewing the fleet. They have seen plenty of buying in this year from the STUs. Earlier, VECV had said that [...]
World number 2 truck maker Volvo cut 208 jobs @ one factory in Brazil about the falling sales & weaker forecasts of economy, this company said recently. This truck maker won’t be renewing any contracts of short-term for about 155 workers & will be laying off around 53 of other employees from 4,000 @ one plant in Parana state which produces transmissions & motors. Volvo is biggest auto maker at Brazil who scaled back the production as out look for the growth in the year 2012 slides to two percent from seven and half percent just 2 years ago. Unit of Daimler AG, Mercedes-Benz recently said in the month of May that they would be laying off around 1,500 workers @ Brazilian factory of trucks as it had idled more of assembly lines. Change in the standards of emissions for the trucks [...]
Oil & rig moving equipment of about 360 owners will get auctioned off by Ritchie Bros. in a massive sale Friday and Thursday. The equipment up for the sale comes from the companies which includes Basnett Truck Service. About 2,100 pieces of the equipment are now up for the grabs, Ritchie Bros. recently announced, including the boom trucks, winch tractors, & bed trucks. This sale will be held @ Ritchie Bros.’ facility of Grande Prairie @ Hwy. 43 & Range Rd. 51. Brian Glenn, the vice-president of the sales, Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers said that it is one of the biggest selections of the late model equipment that we have seen in Peace Country for a long time. Apart from the featured oil field equipment of rig moving, this auction line-up also includes big selection of the late model [...]
One thing about the 2011 Ford F-150 XLT 5.0-liter V-8 that I noticed was that when asked for more power from engine on the climbs and for passing the traffic was the split personality, it was similar to 3.7 liters V-6. While loping along, this V-8 was very subdued & quiet. However, when I wanted more power, exhaust note started snarling just like sports car. This wasn’t really surprising as the engine too is shared along with Ford Mustang. I really loved deep notes which it was making. They were tuned perfectly for matching the effort of the engine and it sounded a lot better as compared to flat note of exhaust of EcoBoost V-6 engine when it was under the load. There isn’t any thing like tenor of V-8 that is hard working in pick up of half ton. 2011 Ford F-150 XLT also comes with [...]
Mack recently announced that they will offer natural gas powered models of the Granite and Pinnacle models in the year 2013. Both the models will be using engine of Cummins Westport ISX12 G. Testing of customer is now scheduled to begin in this year. Addition of natural gas powered 12-litre models adds to Mack’s existing line-up of natural gas, which includes Terra Pro Low Entry & Terra Pro Cab over refuse models. Just like the Mack Terra Pro counterparts of natural gas, natural gas-powered Mack Pinnacle & Granite versions will feature some maintenance-free after treatment & need only 3 way catalyst for meeting EPA 2010 & standards of CARB emissions, says officials. Mack trucks that are natural gas-powered are now available along with CNG (compressed) or LNG (liquefied) systems [...]
Few food-truck operators from New Orleans say they are plan make up non profit association for convincing the officials for easing some rules that they are working under. They are hoping for increasing number of permits, for expanding the operating hours & extending time that truck stays in 1 spot. Rachel Billow’s La Cocinita truck of food serves some Latin American food and a lot of other mobile operators of food are now working for applying for the nonprofit trade status of association. The city food truck licensing covers all from the snow ball & produces trucks for trucks main-dish that have turned up at New Orleans since the Hurricane Katrina. Operators are saying that regulations are getting outdated. Once this group has 501(c)(6) status of tax, it will be asking city officials [...]
At introduction for original 2004 model-years Nissan Titan & Armada, the 5.6-liter Endurance V-8 & automatic 5-speed transmission were close to class-leading. Only half-ton main stream competitor @ time which came really close was Dodge Ram Hemi 1500. Titan’s very well chiseled the lines and gave the full-sized buyers truck one alternative for Detroit 3 & Toyota’s a bit smaller Tundra. Since introduction Titan, full-sized landscape of truck has considerably changed. All the competitors have undergone around one substantial make over or given model that is all-new. In contrast to this, Titan of today is largely same model as the one of 8 years ago, but there were some minor changes. Most important change came in the year 2008 with introduction of long-wheel base model [...]
