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TRUCKMAKERS' NEWS * WORLDWIDE
* USA - Navistar delivers first International LoneStar
Warrenville,ILL,USA -The Trucker -21 Nov 2008: -- Navistar representatives presented the keys to Danny Boudreau, driver and owner of Jeramand Enterprises, during ceremonies at East Coast International Trucks in Moncton, New Brunswick... The LoneStar made its debut to the public to much fanfare earlier this year in February at the Chicago Auto Show. In March, truck enthusiasts got their first look at the bold, stylish truck at the Mid-America Trucking Show in Louisville, Kentucky. Now, just two years after the truck’s earliest designs, the LoneStar is a reality... The truck progressed directly from math and clay models to hard tooling for production — without any development prototypes... (The LoneStar is designed to create a new category of Class 8 trucks called “advanced classic,” in which technology and innovative styling converge with next-generation aerodynamic design to deliver superior fuel efficiency)* Germany - Daimler trucks won't cut German production hours
Stuttgart,Germany -AP, by OLIVER SCHMALE -24 Nov 2008: -- The head of Daimler AG's truck business said it does not plan to cut working hours at its German plants in the immediate future, despite the economic downturn, but would not rule out further savings in the United States... The company is planning to cut back most of its part-time help by the end of this year, but has given no figures... Renschler acknowledged that the company — whose truck brands include Mercedes-Benz, Freightliner, Western Star and Fuso — faces weak demand in the coming months...
* European Truck Slump Accelerates, Spreads to Germany
Brussels,Belgium -Bloomberg, by Laurence Frost -Nov. 25, 2008: -- European heavy-truck sales plunged 14 percent last month as the fallout from the economic slowdown and tighter credit spread to Germany and the U.K... Manufacturers sold 26,479 trucks weighing 16 metric tons or more in October, compared with 30,925 a year earlier, the Brussels-based European Automobile Manufacturers Association said in a statement today. Deliveries for the first 10 months rose 1.5 percent to 277,202 vehicles... Daimler AG, Volvo AB and MAN AG, Europe’s top three truckmakers, are cutting thousands of jobs and trimming production as the economic slowdown gathers pace. Spain and Italy led the heavy truck-sales slide among the larger western European markets, with respective declines of 53 percent and 21 percent last month. Germany, the largest market, turned negative with an 8.5 percent drop, after a sales gain of 21 percent in September...
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