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TRUCKMAKERS' NEWS * WORLDWIDE
* Italy - Iveco PowerStar finally revealed in Ireland ...
Italy -Biglorryblog (UK) -June 4, 2009: -- Oh the wonders of modern technology. Someone sent me this via their phone and myphotos on Vodafone ... And it appears to me to be the mythical Iveco PowerStar that I've heard was recently imported into Ireland but nobody knew where it was... Well here (I think) it is outside Jennings Truck Centre (indeed it appears to have a Jennings logo on the side too)...* USA - New EPA emissions standards should be good news for Navistar
Chicago,ILL,USA -Medill Reports, by Megan Mollmann -June 03, 2009: -- Shares of Navistar International Corp. are poised to rebound once the truck manufacturing business, which is experiencing one of the toughest sales environments in years, pulls out of the economic doldrums... Navistar, which earlier this year unveiled an engine to meet the latest EPA standards, expects those standards to lead to a pre-buy of trucks in November and December... “Right now, I think we are the only manufacturer out there that has gotten 2010 compliant engines in production today, ahead of schedule,” said Navistar spokeswoman Heather Kos... The company manufactures medium and heavy trucks , including commercial and military trucks under the International brand, as well as school and commercial buses. It also makes mid-range diesel engines... (Picture from covanint.ca: Internaqtional's Lonestar)
* UK - Isuzu launches refrigerated F-Series 'package'
London,UK -Road Transport, by Julian Milnes -4 June 2009: -- Isuzu has launched a refrigerated truck 'package' produced in conjunction with bodybuilder Lamberet and refrigeration company Carrier Transicold... The Lamberet refrigerated body, which has a temperature range of -25 to +15°C, is matched to Carrier's Xarios 600 direct drive system, featuring the company's Datacold temperature recorder and printer as standard... Priced at £44,000, the package has a claimed lead time of four weeks and comes with an all-inclusive three-year 'bumper-to-bumper' warranty...* USA - Daimler using NAVTEQ map data, launches advanced fuel efficiency enhancement feature
Chicago,ILL,USA -PRNewswire -3 June 2009: -- NAVTEQ today announced that Daimler Trucks North America LLC, has selected the NAVTEQ map to power the new RunSmart Predictive Cruise solution for its Cascadia line of vehicles... By integrating the truck's cruise control system with GPS and NAVTEQ's slope and height data, RunSmart Predictive Cruise automatically fine tunes the set speed to reduce fuel consumption. While in route, the system appraises the upcoming changes in road terrain and adjusts the throttle accordingly, resulting in fuel savings...
* UK - 6,000 jobs at risk as LDV rescue by Weststar collapses
London,UK -The Times On Line, by Elizabeth Judge -June 2, 2009: -- Nearly 6,000 UK jobs at LDV, the troubled vanmaker, are at risk after Weststar of Malaysia pulled out of rescue talks... LDV employs 840 workers at its Birmingham factory and a further 5,000 staff, employed by suppliers and manufacturers, are reliant on the business... Workers were sent home today after LDV was forced to reapply for administration when Weststar pulled out of the deal... Weststar was granted a £5 million bridging loan in May to help fund LDV's operations while talks continued... However, a spokesman for LDV said that only "a fraction" of the Government's bridging loan had been released... LDV, formerly Leyland DAF Vans, has been owned by Gaz since 2006... Gaz is owned by Oleg Deripaska, the Russian oligarch, who is also an industrial partner with Magna International and Sberbank, the new owners of GM Europe...
* UK - Diesel do nicely for Cummins jobs
Darlington,UK -Ne Business/Evening Gazette, by Kelley Price -Jun 3 2009: -- The company that put the turbo into diesel engines said yesterday that new low-emission technology developed at its Darlington plant should secure its future and that of hundreds of staff... Cummins, which was forced to shed jobs earlier this year as demand fell, is pinning its hopes on the pollution busters being the catalyst for recovery... The technology has been driven by low-as-you-can-go pollution rules coming out of Europe, which will see the toughest standards yet on emissions from truck, van and public vehicle engines introduced in October. The European parliament is now consulting on the next round of targets for 2013... The new technology, which meets the voluntary Enhanced Environmentally-friendly Vehicle (EEV) standard, cuts emission of particulate matter to levels a third lower than that required by October... David Geaghty, Cummins Emissions Solutions business leader in charge of the emissions exhaust division at Darlington, said the technology was also available as a retro fit, but emissions and cost savings were not as impressive...
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