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TRUCKMAKERS' NEWS WORLDWIDE
* USA - Navistar wins $40.5M for military truck bid
Chicago,IL,USA -Crain's Chicago Business, by Bob Tita -Oct. 29, 2008: -- Navistar International Corp. and its partner, British defense contractor BAE Systems Land & Armaments L.P, received a $40.5-million contract for the 27-month-long technology development phase of the joint lightweight tactical truck program... The winner, chosen from the three teams, will receive a production contract to supply trucks to the Army and Marine Corps. The contract is expected to be worth at least $20 billion over several years... The teams will use Wednesday’s awards to refine and enhance their initial models for the competition. During the demonstration phase, the teams will each submit seven prototype trucks and four trailers for testing by the Army. The military is looking for trucks that provide soldiers with greater protection than the armored Humvees now used in combat in Iraq and Afghanistan... The BAE-Navistar vehicle, known as that Valanx, features a V-shaped underside designed to deflect blasts from roadside mines. Mines targeted at trucks have been the leading cause of U.S. casualties during five-year Iraq war. Navistar says the Valanx can be built in several variations to meet the military’s needs for scout vehicles, troop carriers and ambulances...
* Europe - Volvo to cut 600 jobs in Sweden and Belgium
Sydney,Australia -AFP/The Age -October 30, 2008: -- Volvo, one of the world's top heavy-duty truck makers, said it would cut 600 more jobs in Sweden and Belgium, just a month after it announced 1,400 layoffs in the two countries... "In addition to the 1,400 jobs (announced last month) we've now announced 600 more, so now it's in total 2,000 jobs," Volvo Trucks spokesman Tommy Kohle told ... He said there would now be a total of 520 permanent job cuts in Volvo's cab factory in the northern Swedish town of Umeaa and 860 in the southwestern town of Gothenburg... In Belgium, a total of 600 temporary contracts would be discontinued, he said...
* USA - Toyota to Reopen Plant With One Shift, Export Trucks
Los Angeles,CAL,USA -Bloomberg, by Alan Ohnsman -Oct. 30, 2008: -- Toyota Motor Corp. will cut production shifts in half when it reopens a Texas pickup plant Nov. 10 and ship U.S.-built trucks outside North America for the first time to markets with stronger demand... Toyota, hasn't determined when it will return to two shifts from one at the San Antonio factory, said a spokesman, Mike Goss. Workers will shuttle among assembly and other duties until previous output levels are restored, Goss said today in an interview...
* UK - Jobs set to go at Leyland Trucks
Lancashire,UK -BBC News -30 Oct 2008: -- More than 100 jobs are to go at the Leyland Trucks site in Lancashire, it has been announced... The site in Farington, near Leyland, employs more than 1,200 people and produces vehicles delivered to Australia, Europe, and North America... A spokesman for the firm said 24 office workers were set to go by the end of the year... Bosses are in negotiations with unions about the compulsory redundancies of a further 92 shop floor posts... These cuts are in addition to 145 temporary agency workers who were laid off at the site last week... A spokesman for the company blamed the economic downturn... (Picture: More than 1,200 people are employed at the site)* South Africa - MAN sets ambitious African truck-sales target as world stalls
Garden View,South Africa -Creamer Media's Engineering News, by Christy van der Merwe -30 Oct 2008: -- Truck and bus manufacturer MAN South Africa (SA) has set a yearly target of 15 000 trucks, buses and coaches to be sold throughout the African continent by 2015, and is currently expanding its reach and after-sales network beyond its existing Southern Africa platform... MAN SA has had sales and after-sales responsibility for the entire continent, including North Africa, since the start of the year... The target was ambitious when compared with its current African sales of about 7 500 units yearly...
* USA - ArvinMeritor cuts jobs, may sell unit. Partsmaker eliminates 1,250; might change plan for components division it had decided to spin off
Troy,MI,USA -Bloomberg/The Detroit News, by Alex Ortolani -1 Nov 2008: -- Troy-based ArvinMeritor Inc. said it's cutting 1,250 jobs and may sell a passenger-car components unit that it had planned to spin off to shareholders... The payroll reductions, about 7 percent of the work force, are mostly complete and will be part of $125 million in savings in 2009, the company said Friday in a statement. They affect 450 salaried and 800 hourly positions... The moves reflect the strain on partsmakers from U.S. auto sales that tumbled 13 percent this year through September. Suppliers are chopping payrolls and slashing output as automakers pare purchases. ArvinMeritor makes auto and commercial truck parts...
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