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TRUCKMAKERS' NEWS * WORLDWIDE
* USA - Kenworth Offers Comfortable Work and Rest Space for Minnesota Mobile Medical UnitBrooklyn Park,MINN,USA -Kenworth's P.R. - September 16, 2009: -- If a natural disaster or other event closes local medical facilities or brings them to their limits, Minnesota operates a mobile medical unit that can be used as a backup emergency room and critical care facility...
The Minnesota Mobile Medical Unit is a tractor-trailer unit that, when deployed, expands into a fully functional 1,000-square-foot medical treatment center. The 53-foot trailer has three pods that extend out using a complex hydraulic system. The trailer is pulled by a Kenworth T660, equipped with a 485 hp Cummins ISX engine, a 10-speed manual transmission, full locking rear differentials and a 72-inch AeroCab® AERODYNE® sleeper...
The trailer and its three pods house eight patient bays with room for up to 16 patients, mechanical ventilators, a portable x-ray machine, a nurse’s station, a pharmacy and a small laboratory for limited medical testing...
A large platform extends out and a ramp unfolds in back giving patients and emergency personnel easy access, and an inflated entryway keeps the center protected from the wind and elements...
* USA - Kenworth Help Kokosing Construction Reduce Operating Costs
Fredericktown,OH,USA -Kenworth's P.R. -September 17, 2009: -- As the largest contractor in Ohio, Kokosing Construction has been growing and prospering since 1951. The company is about as diverse as it gets with operations in 10 states, in 25 different fields – from asphalt paving and bridge building to laying sub aqueous pipeline and building water treatment plants...
Running nearly 2,000 pieces of heavy equipment, which includes Class 7 and 8 trucks, dozers, excavators, cranes and a litany of other equipment, the company has won numerous local and national awards for its projects, the quality of its work, and the management of its operations...
The company runs 42 Kenworth T800s and a number of T370 medium duty trucks as lowboys, fuel and lube vehicles, boom trucks, flatbeds and water trucks. The company also uses a T370 and T800 as jet trucks – vehicles equipped with a tank and power sprayer (up to 65 gallons per minute at 2500 psi) to clean out sanitary lines...
* Germany - VW eyes MAN in trucks revamp
Wolfsburg,Germany -Thomson Reuters (U)/Forbes (USA) -17 Sept 2009: -- Volkswagen is considering overhauling its trucks business in a move that could herald a tie-up with German truckmaking and engineering group MAN AG... VW, which was not immediately available for comment on the report, is MAN's largest shareholder with a 29.9 percent stake and also owns a majority of Swedish truckmaker Scania. How an alliance between the three marques might be structured has been the subject of frequent media and market speculation... VW would address plans for its trucks business 'in a not very distant future', the FT source said...
* Ireland - Roscommon County Council leases six new Scania tippers
Roscommon,Ireland -HGV Ireland -18 Sept 2009: -- Westward Scania, based in Strokestown, Co. Roscommon has just delivered six new Scania tipper trucks to Roscommon County Council... The trucks will be involved in a range of road maintenance operations throughout the County including surface dressing works and the salting of national routes during winter months... (Picture: At the handover of the new trucks to Roscommon County Council are (L to R), Joe Crann, Sales & Marketing Director, Eric Treacy, Scania Sales Executive, Christy Tarmey, Driver, Greg O'Donnell, Senior Executive Engineer, & Ann Conneally, Health & Safety Officer, Roscommon County Council)* India - Tata Motors Ltd. Rise
Mumbai,India -Bloomberg (USA), by Tian Huang -Sept. 16, 2009: ... Tata Motors Ltd.. advanced the most in a week, growing 5.1 percent to $13.33. India’s biggest truck maker may sell as much as 15 percent of its vehicle financing unit to raise funds to pare debt, the Economic Times reported, citing two people it didn’t identify who are familiar with the development. The sale of the stake may fetch about $41 million... * Sweden - Scania unveils new R-series
Gothenburg,Sweden -HGV (UK) -September 17th, 2009: -- Scania has unveiled its new R Series truck, claiming the new entrant will strengthen the brand’s leading position in the long-haulage segment... Among the news is also a new version of the gearchanging system Scania Opticruise. The system is now available fully automated, i.e. without a clutch pedal. Several new functions are integrated to further facilitate driving... The launch of the new R-series is one element of Scania’s efforts to achieve sales of 150,000 vehicles per year by the peak of the next economic expansion... (Picture from forums.radiocontrolzone: Scania's R-serie trucks)* UK - Titan heads to Teeside
Teeside,UK -HGV (UK) -September 17, 2009: -- Titan Trailers Inc. , a Canadian manufacturer of premium-built semi-trailers, will establish its EU assembly operations at a new facility on Teesside... After several years of testing the waters in Britain’s haulage market, Titan Trailers Inc. has announced that it will now establish a new assembly plant in the UK for its Canadian-built semi-trailers... (Picture from titantrailer: Titan's livestock trailers gooseneck)Labels: truckmakers news USA
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