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TRUCKMAKERS' NEWS * USA
* Kenworth Tops JD Power Rankings for Big Trucks
USA -Automotive Digest -29 Aug 2008: -- JD Power releases 2008 Heavy-duty Truck Customer Satisfaction Survey, that measured satisfaction w/ owners of 2-year-old Class 8 trucks... Kenworth ranks highest in over-the-road segment for 4th straight year; Freightliner next. Also Kenworth tops in vocational segment for 2nd straight year; Western Star next. Mack Trucks tops in dealer service; Kenworth, Sterling follow... Satisfaction based on performance, quality, warranty, costs... Other conclusions: Industry facing slump that doesn't appear to end... Owners who "definitely will" purchase new truck at lowest level since 2002... 25% say they will purchase or lease next year. That's down from 41% in 2006 when truck sales at historic highs... Only 54% of fleet owners will add new trucks, down from 63%...
* Kenworth goes green with revamped trucks - Hybrid models becoming popular as fuel prices increase
ASHWAUBENON,WI,USA -The Green Bay Press Gazette (Green Bay,WI), by Nathan Phelps -August 29, 2008: — At first glace, the white T270 Kenworth delivery truck looks like many others you see on the road... But what sets this vehicle apart from others — to the eye — is a gray box about the size of an oversized piece of luggage attached to the chassis frame on the driver's side... That box, and the 340-volt lithium-ion battery pack in it, are part of a diesel-electric hybrid system that Kenworth and other truck manufacturers are rolling out in the face of $4.18 diesel prices (the average in Wisconsin on Wednesday) and tightening environmental expectations... (Photo by Jim Matthews/Press-GazetteKenworth salesman Joe Morris demonstrates the new hybrid utility vehicle technology Wednesday at Wisconsin Kenworth. The new technology allows the vehicle's diesel engine to be shut off while the boom runs on electric power)Labels: truckmakers' news USA
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