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TRUCKING'S WORLD NEWS
* UPS to Order 4,100 Low-Emission Trucks in '06
ATLANTA,Ga,USA -PlanetArk -Feb 17, 2006: United Parcel Service Inc said Thursday it will order 50 hybrid electric delivery vehicles and acquire 4,100 low-emission vehicles during 2006 as part of a strategy to cut costs...
* Purchases 11 BelAZ Dump-trucks at Once
KEMEROVO,Siberia,Russia -RIC "FIS" -Feb 15, 2006: For the first time in the history of the Western Siberian metal integrated works (member of Evraz Group) its motor transport division purchased 11 new BelAZ dump-trucks as one lot. Such a scale replenishment of the company's motor fleet is due to the reconstruction of the mills, growing production volumes and volumes of transported goods...
* Peru bans 'bus-trucks' after crashes
LIMA, Peru -AP/CNN -Feb 15, 2006: Peru's national police launched surprise raids nationwide Wednesday, trying to get illegal and dangerous "bus-trucks" off the roads a day after two separate bus crashes killed 45 people and injured 66... But drivers kept the vehicles out of sight to avoid seizures...
* Lorry operators seek diesel subsidy for all types of trucks
KUALA LUMPUR,Malaysia -Malaysia Mail Online -Feb 18, 2006: Lorry operators want all types of trucks to be eligible for diesel subsidy instead of only seven categories... The Selangor and Kuala Lumpur Lorry Operators Association (SKLLOA) said if fishermen could enjoy the subsidy across the board, the same should be applied to lorry operators... SKLLOA secretary-general Alvin Chong said they learnt that only seven out of about 40 categories of trucks will be eligible for the subsidy. They are general cargo trucks, bottle carrying trucks, panel lorries, water and flour tankers, refrigerator trucks and prime movers... Choong said this in reaction to the impending announcement of a list of commercial vehicles that will be eligible for diesel subsidy...
* Challenges barrage trucking's best customers in 2005
OTTAWA, Ont.,Canada -Truck News, by Lou Smyrlis -17 Feb 2006: Manufacturing is a crucial source of business for Canadian trucking and as a result there is anxiety about its future freight volumes... Statistics Canada, which provides monthly shipment volume reports on the manufacturing sector, provided the following year-end review: "For Canadian manufacturers, 2005 will be remembered as a year of many challenges..." ... Because of the challenges, manufacturing shipments rose only 3.1% to $611.6 billion in 2005, compared to an 8.5% advance in 2004...
* DaimlerChrysler's Chrysler, financing ops offset weaker Mercedes, trucks
STUTTGART,Germany -Forbes/AFX -16 Feb.2006: DaimlerChrysler AG said it expects Chrysler to face tougher competition even as the US unit and the groups financing arm helped boost fourth quarter group profits to 1.048 bln eur from 785 mln while Mercedes Car Group barely floated above breakeven...
* Nissan to supply light trucks to Volvo in 2007
TOKYO,Japan -Reuters/Automotive News -Feb 17, 2006: Nissan Motor Co., Japan's second-biggest automaker, said on Friday it would supply light-duty trucks to Renault Trucks SAS, a unit of Sweden's Volvo AB group, starting in the first half of 2007... The light commercial vehicle business is one of four areas that Nissan has identified as having big growth potential under its current three-year corporate plan...
* New trucking company by April
Trinidad & Tobago -Trinidad & Tobago Express, by Roxanne Stapleton -Feb 16, 2006: President General of the Seamen and Waterfront Workers' Trade Union (SWWTU) Michael Annisette said yesterday his union's new trucking company, the Port and Private Sector Trucking Company Ltd, is geared for an April start...
* Mullen king of the road
Canada -Globe and Mail, by BRENT JANG -16 Feb 2006: Mullen Group Income Fund has cemented its status as a trucking powerhouse with a $900-million takeover of rival Producers Oilfield Services Inc., paving the way for the Mullen family to spearhead expansion into the Arctic...
* Freight rates down on excess availability of trucks
Ernakulam,Kerala,India -NewKerala.com -16 Feb 2006: Freight charges for the nine metric tonne pay load section declined on the local truck transport market today following restricted cargo movements against excess availability of trucks... Transporters said restricted cargo movements against excess availability of trucks mainly pulled down freight rates...
* Truss rejects call for road pricing stay
Australia -Supply Chain Review -17 Feb 2006: -- Federal Transport Minister Warren Truss has dashed the hopes of the trucking industry for a reprieve on road pricing hikes, rejecting calls for the process to be abandoned... The Australian Trucking Association (ATA) has called on transport ministers to delay a vote on the National Transport Commission's (NTC) proposals for hikes in registration and diesel excise until after a Productivity Commission review into road and rail pricing... But speaking at the Trucks in Action event in Victoria, Truss said the two issues are completely separate and ministers are obliged to continue the road pricing determinations...
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