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TRUCKMAKERS' NEWS * WORLDWIDE
* Germany - Truckmaker MAN offers amnesty to employees for information on alleged corruption
Munich,Germnay -Associated Press/The Washington Examiner (USA) -27 May 2009: -- German truckmaker MAN AG on Monday offered amnesty for employees willing to come forward with information regarding alleged illegal commissions paid at the company between 2002 and 2009 and which are being investigated by Munich prosecutors... More than 100 people are being investigated and two have been arrested... Prosecutors said salespeople allegedly paid about euro1 million ($1.35 million) in "bribes characterized as commission payments" to employees of MAN customers, sometimes via the accounts of relatives and friends, sometimes via letterbox firms in Malta, the Bahamas, London and New York... Investigators are now trying to determine who received money and why... (Picture from us-cdn.creamermedia.co.za: Resized MAN trucks)
* Sweden - Volvo to pay $525 million to create health care trust for Mack Trucks retirees
Stockholm,Sweden -Associated Press/The Washington Examiner (USA) -27 May 2009: -- Allentown, Pennsylvania-based truck maker Mack Trucks Inc. has signed an agreement with the United Auto Workers union to create an independent trust responsible for the health care of retirees, Swedish parent company AB Volvo said Monday... Volvo said it will fund the trust with $525 million (euro389 million) in cash, which will be paid in equal installments over a five-year period... If approved, the first payment of $110 million (euro82 million) will be made in the second quarter 2009... (Picture from wallpapersmania: Volvo truck)* USA - Capacity terminal tractors to use MaxxForce engines
Melrose Park,ILL,USA -Truck News (CAN) -28 May 2009: -- Navistar has inked a deal to supply MaxxForce 7 engines for Capacity shunt trucks... The V8 diesels will be used on Capacity terminal tractors as part of multi-year agreement... The first Capacity trucks to come with MaxxForce 7 engines will be rolled out beginning this fall... (Photo from glasvangreatdane.com: Capacity's, of Texas, truck)
* USA - Mack delivers its first production intent Class 8 hybrid to NYC
New York,NY,USA -Truck News (CAN) -29 May 2009: -- Mack has delivered its first production intent Class 8 heavy-duty hybrid to the city of New York for use in refuse applications... The company handed over the keys during a special ceremony and said the sale marks an “important milestone” in the company’s hybrid commercialization process. The truck is a Mack TerraPro low-entry model refuse truck and is also EPA2010-compliant thanks to the use of selective catalytic reduction (SCR)... New York’s Department of Sanitation will be using the truck and evaluating its performance... (Macks' photo)* Belgium - WABCO Adds to Intelligent Trailer Program
Brussels, Belgium -WABCO Press Release -May 19, 2009: -- WABCO Holdings Inc. introduced new functions to its Intelligent Trailer Program. OptiLoad, OptiTurn, Tilt Alert and Bounce Control are featured on the E1 version of the company's Trailer EBS E generation, marking the latest innovation in WABCO's Trailer EBS series that was launched in 1998.. . As of 2008, WABCO has sold more than 843,000 trailer electronic braking systems worldwide... New OptiLoad automatically redistributes cargo weight over the truck-trailer combination. As a trailer's cargo is partially delivered along its route, the remaining cargo can exceed the legal maximum weight limit on the truck's rear axle. With new OptiLoad and existing air bellows, the trailer's suspension system redistributes load weight without physically moving any cargo. It helps truck drivers and fleet operators remain in compliance with regulations for maximum weight per axle while preventing axle damage due to excessive weight...* UK - Schmitz Opens Multi-Product Trailer Assembly Line
Harelaw,Durham,UK -Trailer Body Builders -May 28, 2009: -- Schmitz Cargobull (UK) Ltd’s new multi-product trailer assembly line is now fully operational. The new integrated line, introduced at the company’s UK manufacturing plant at Harelaw, County Durham, allows both curtainsider and refrigerated trailers to be built simultaneously... It has been designed to enable Schmitz Cargobull to manufacture an extensive range of other trailer types at the Harelaw facility and, as a result, the number of products built by the company in the UK will be enlarged significantly... The development of the new production system means that the overall output capacity of the plant has effectively been doubled... * USA - Schweitzer visits Miralogix in Bozeman
Bozeman,Montana,USA - The Montana's News Station -May 29, 2009: -- Governor Brian Schweitzer, on Friday visited a Bozeman company that may revolutionize the trucking industry... Miralogix is a company that has come up with a more energy efficient way of cooling large delivery trucks... The manager of Miralogix's parent company, Reflect Scientific, showed the Governor the new CB 40 refrigeration system... John Hammerman says the device uses nitrogen to cool refrigerated trucks, replacing the need for noisy, polluting diesel systems...* Europe - Truckmakers seek help to overcome economic crisis
Brussels,Belgium -European Voice, by Jennifer Rankin -28 May 2009: -- European truck and coach manufacturers are to ask the European Union and national governments for more help to weather the recession... The industry is studying whether schemes that give consumers cash incentives for trading in old cars can be replicated for trucks and buses... ACEA, the European carmakers' association, is working on proposals for “a system that will be semi-equivalent to a scrapping scheme for commercial vehicles,” said Ivan Hodac, ACEA's secretary-general... Truck and coach-makers have been hit hard by the economic downturn. Sales of commercial vehicles dropped by 24% in the last quarter of 2008, worse than the 19.3% fall for passenger cars. Hodac said that he expected sales of commercial vehicles to be 50% down for 2009 as a whole... (Photo: TRICKY TURNS Truckmakers are struggling to cope with the global economic crisis)Labels: truckmakers' news USA
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