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TRUCKMAKERS' NEWS
* USA - DaimlerChrysler Sees Freightliner Pft, Job Cuts
Detroit,Ill,USA -Dow Jones/Wiadomosci onet.pl (Poland) -11 Dec 2006: -- The head of DaimlerChrysler AG's truck and bus group said Monday that the auto maker expects its U.S.-based Freightliner truck division to be profitable in 2007... Despite an expected sharp downturn in heavy truck building next year that will lead to job cuts in the unit... Renschler also said DaimlerChrysler will produce one global heavy duty truck engine in the coming years from the four it produces now. This will help save costs, reduce complexity and better leverage DaimlerChrysler's size, he said. DaimlerChrysler will begin producing the global engine next year at its Detroit Diesel plant... It will take until 2014 to 2015 before the common engine hits all of DaimlerChrysler's global truck platforms due to model cycles... He also said the truck group is working on a common global engine for its medium-duty commercial trucks...
* Japan - Isuzu Considering New U.S. Truck Plant
Tokyo,Japan -The Houston Chronicle (Houston,TX,USA)/AP -Dec. 13, 2006: -- Japan's truck maker Isuzu Motors Ltd. is considering building a new assembly plant for small trucks in the United States if North American sales volume doubles from the current level, company officials said... Isuzu President Yoshinori Ida disclosed the possibility during a media preview of its new truck in Yokohama, just east of Tokyo, according to company spokesman Yukio Hirano... Ida told reporters Isuzu may consider building a new assembly plant if sales of its small trucks in the North American market reach around 50,000. Last year, Isuzu sold a combined 25,000 small trucks in the U.S. and Canada, Hirano said...
* Germany - VW denies concrete plans for merger between its truck unit, Scania and MAN
Frankfurt,Germany -AFX/Swedish newspaper Dagens Industri/Forbes (USA) -13 Dec 2006: -- Volkswagen AG denied that it has concrete plans for a merger between its truck unit with Scania AB and MAN AG... 'Such a plan was never sent out,' a VW spokeswoman said...
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