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 [...]
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 [...]
The Manitoba Trucking Association along with partnership of Custom Truck Sales & Kenworth, has now recognized 7 professional drivers for contributions that they made to industry. 7 drivers – Wayne Septon (Transport of Agri-Tel), Ben Sawatzky (Transport of Arnold Bros.), Brian Smith (Transport of Arnold Bros.), Gary Barbour (Transport of Arnold Bros.), Eddy Dueck (Systems of Big Freight), Randy Steingart (Transport of Bison), & Craig Dzamon (the Northern Deck) – were the ones recognized during ceremony on 10th of May. Septon has involved himself in “Where’s Wayne” project along with school of local elementary, and Sawatzky, Barbour, Smith, & Dueck are the members of industry for long-time having records of excellent driving, say the officials. Steingart [...]
Toyota is now back. It is putting one year of the earth quake-related shortages behind them & grabbing the sales from the stumbling Ford and General Motors. Sales of Toyota had rose about 12 percent in the month of April, & the share of market had returned to the levels it has not seen since before 2011 March earth quake at Japan. The sales had out paced industry as whole, which saw some growth of about 2.3 percent to about 1.18 millions of cars & trucks in last month, says our data. Resurgence of Toyota means better deals as the rivals are fighting for the customers by giving discounts & promotions. Toyota has already announced 0 percent financing & some other deals in the month of May. This also means that buyers get better selection. Factories of Toyota are now cranking [...]
