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TRUCKMAKERS NEWS * WORLDWIDE
span style="font-size:130%;">* USA - Mack to idle workers for 2 more weeks. Truck sales are down 38 percent, prompting company to halt production in August
Lower Macungie,PA,USA -The Morning Call, by Tyrone Richardson -July 22, 2009: -- The lackluster economy is forcing Mack Trucks to schedule two more weeklong production shutdowns at its Lower Macungie plant, bringing it to 13 so far this year, officials said... Mack spokesman, John Walsh, said production will be stopped during the weeks of Aug. 24 and 31 at the Lower Macungie Township plant, which produces vocational rigs like garbage trucks and cement mixers and employs about 425 workers. The workers are eligible for unemployment benefits during the duration... Mack reported that trucks delivered in June were 1,160, down 21 percent from the same month a year ago. June was the largest production month so far this year for Mack, but the company is still on track to have one of its lowest production years since at least 2000. Through June, the company has produced 5,173 rigs, down more than 38 percent from the same time a year ago...* Russia - Truck maker KamAZ posts $1.8 mln net profit in Q2
Moscow,Russia -RIA Novosti -July 21, 2009: -- Russia's largest truck producer KamAZ announced on Tuesday net profits under Russian Accounting Standards of 54.96 million rubles ($1.8 million) in April-June 2009... KamAZ, based in the Volga Republic of Tatarstan, posted a loss of 1.68 billion rubles ($54 million) in the first quarter of this year... KamAZ attributed its positive financial result in the second quarter of this year to asset revaluation resulting from exchange rate differences... KamAZ produces more than 30 models of trucks, as well as trailers, buses, tractors and spare parts. It also manufactures engines, power units, and components... The company has assembly facilities in Poland, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Ethiopia, Vietnam and Ukraine... (Photo from automoblog: KamAZ heavy-duty trucks have won the Paris-Dakar rally on several occasions... )
* USA - GM to halt medium-duty truck production
Detroit,MICH,USA -Reuters, by David Bailey & Soyoung Kim & Gerald E. McCormick -22 July 2009: -- General Motors Corp., which filed for bankruptcy protection a week ago, said on Monday that it would cease production of medium-duty trucks by July 31 after attempts to sell the operation failed... GM plans to cease production of Chevrolet Kodiak and GMC Topkick medium-duty trucks by July 31. The automaker sold about 20,000 of the vehicles last year, down from roughly 30,000 in 2007, as the U.S. economy sank into a deep recession... (Photo from irancar Images Gallery: Chevrolet Kodiak)
* Sweden - Volvo focuses on life saving technology
Stockholm,Sweden -HGV (Ireland) -22 July 2009: ... Volvo Trucks launched safety systems that are unique in the industry and that prevent two of the most common causes of accidents: drowsiness and inattentiveness... Volvo Trucks is also in the lead when it comes to stability systems or systems that help the driver maintain control over the truck in difficult driving conditions... Volvo Trucks is the only manufacturer with a system that stabilises a rigid truck hauling one or more trailers... The company is also the only manufacturer in the industry that can offer a vehicle-integrated Alcolock that prevents the truck from being started unless the driver performs a breathalyser test by blowing in the instrument's nozzle and passing the test... The next big step in technological development is a system that make the vehicles even more intelligent like, for instance, by communicating with one another and with the surrounding traffic. In the longer term, these V2V (Vehicle to Vehicle) and V2I (Vehicle to Infrastructure) systems can pave the way for technology where two oncoming vehicles can, for example, 'converse' with each other and avoid a frontal collision if the drivers fail to react... As part of an EU project called HAVEit (Highly Automated Vehicles for Intelligent Transport), Volvo Trucks is participating in the development of a digital co-pilot for trucks. This 'virtual guardian angel' would keep an alert watch on the road and surrounding traffic, ready to help or to step in should the driver lose control....Labels: truckmakers' news worldwide
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