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TRUCKMAKERS' NEWS WORLDWIDE
* USA - Navistar Says ‘Coalition’ Grows To Ease 2010 Emissions Rule
Warrenville,Ill,USA -Transport Topics, by Frederick Kiel -Dec. 8, 2008: -- A Navistar Inc. spokesman said that a “coalition is building” around the company’s call to the incoming Obama administration to ease 2010 emissions mandates, but the Environmental Protection Agency said its tightened standards would go into effect without delays... "We are putting a plan into place to ask the government to allow truck manufacturers to sell clean ’07 technology engines alongside 2010 ones, and we’re talking to people,” Navistar spokesman Roy Wiley told Transport Topics... But the EPA said there would be no changes... “Implementing the emission rules for heavy-duty engines is going smoothly [and] will be a reality in 2010,” EPA spokesman Dale Kemery told TT. “We’re on track"...
* Japan - Nissan, Ashok Leyland to delay India truck output
Tokyo,Japan -Reuters -Dec 8, 2008: -- Japan's Nissan Motor Co., said on Tuesday it would delay the start of light commercial truck production with Indian partner Ashok Leyland Ltd., by six months to as late as September 2011 in view of plunging truck sales in India... The joint venture had been planning to begin production during the business year starting in April 2010, with 80 percent of output slated for sale domestically. The plant is due to be set up in Pillaipakkam, near the southern city of Chennai, with an initial capacity of 100,000 units a year... Truck demand in India, the world's fourth-largest market for commercial vehicles, had been expected to grow on the back of improving roads and a focus on infrastructure. But a slowing economy has resulted in a liquidity crunch and a sharp drop in construction activity, squeezing demand in recent months...
* Canada - Nissan announces entry into Canadian commercial vehicle market
Mississauga,ONT,CAN -Truck News -December 4, 2008: -- Nissan has announced it is leaping into the Canadian commercial vehicle market... The company will roll out its first of three commercial vehicles in early 2010, Nissan announced in a release this afternoon. The company has inked a supply deal with Cummins for engines and ZF Friedrichshafen AG for transmissions... The trucks will be built at Nissan’s plant in Canton, Mississippi. Nissan ultimately plans to expand its commercial vehicle business in North America to include several products with GVWs of less than eight tonnes...
* USA - Mitsubishi reels in Mitsubishi Fuso's North American operations
Logan Township,NJ,USA -Truck News (CAN) -4 Dec 2008: -- Mitsubishi Fuso has announced it is consolidating its North American operations at Mitsubishi Fuso Truck of America headquarters in New Jersey... Sales, marketing, product application and distribution functions will all be located at the Jersey facility, ending a relationship with Sterling Trucks which will be discontinued. The Mitsubishi Fuso Truck of America facility will also serve as the wholesale organization for all of the US and Canada...
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