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TRUCKMAKERS NEWS * WORLDWIDE
* "Australian made. World's Best"
Video from YouTube, by RustbucketP6 -1 Feb 2008: -- Text to go with the clip: a DVD on Paccar's Kenworth operations... Actually Kenworth has a very impressive market share in both Australia and New Zealand not least through its classic K104 cabover tractor which has been the mainstay for B-Double operators for years. And the Kaywhoppa bonneted behemoths are number one roadtrain fodder too. The Aussies have been building Kenworths at their Bayswater, Victoria plant since 1971 and have grasped that thing that many "global" truck makers often miss. Namely that there's no substitute for building a truck that meets the local market conditions head-on...rather than offer a product from a remote factory thousands of miles away. Meanwhile, to visit Kenworth's Australian website try this link http://www.kenworth.com.au/kenworth/
* Sweden - Volvo says to shut U.S. plant, cut 228 jobs
Stockholm,Sweden -Reuters -Dec 11, 2009: -- World number two truck maker Volvo said on Friday it would close its plant in Asheville, North Carolina, as it sought to scale back excess capacity in the face of the downturn... Volvo said in a statement the decision would affect 228 employees at the manufacturing plant for construction equipment and result in a restructuring cost of 100 million crowns ($16 million), most of which would be booked in the fourth quarter... The Asheville plant would be closed by March 31, 2010, it added...
* USA - Commercial Vehicle closing Norwalk plant
Columbus,OH,USA -The Business First of Columbus -7 Dec 2009: -- Commercial Vehicle Group Inc. plans to close a northern Ohio plant next year as truck maker Navistar International Corp. brings in house cab-assembly operations performed at the facility... The New Albany-based truck parts maker said this week that its plant in Norwalk, about 100 miles north of Columbus, will continue assembly operations for Navistar through April. After that, the facility will close, costing about 120 jobs... Instead of renewing its contract with Commercial Vehicle, Warrenville, Ill.-based Navistar said it is folding the work into an existing company plant in Escobedo, Mexico...
* China - CNHTC claims to be world's 2nd largest output
Jinan,Shandong,China -Xinhua/Chinaview -Dec. 11, 2009: -- China's largest heavy truck maker claimed Friday that its output had become the second largest in the world at its headquarters in Ji'nan City, capital of eastern Shandong Province... Cai Dong, president of CNHTC, drove the 120,000th truck the company manufactured this year off the production line. He said the truck marked a 11.2 percent year-on-year output growth, which was a remarkable achievement, considering the world economic downturn... (Photo: HOWO truck)* Germany - Asia is final frontier for VW empire
Wolfsburg,Germany -The Financial Times (London,UK), by Daniel Schäfer & John Reed -December 9 2009: -- For carmakers, the defining challenges of the day are to broaden their offering of low-carbon cars and expand in Asia, even as they struggle with a punishing drop in demand in mature markets... Volkswagen on Wednesday accomplished both in one fell swoop, announcing a tie-up with Japan’s Suzuki that sets it on course to surpass Toyota as the world’s largest carmaker... With the decision to spend €1.7bn ($2.5bn) on a 19.9 per cent stake of Suzuki, VW plugged a significant gap in its regional and product portfolio and, said analysts, might have set the tone for further alliances in the car industry... It marked a further step in a drive by Ferdinand Piëch, VW’s chairman, to build a car and truck empire building everything from small own-brand cars to Bugatti sports cars and MAN trucks...* India - Tata aims to buy stake in India truck maker Swaraj
New Delhi,India -AFP-10 Dec 2009: -- Tata Motors, India's biggest commercial vehicle maker, is in talks to buy Japanese conglomerate Sumitomo's majority stake in Indian truck and bus maker Swaraj Mazda, a report said Thursday... The deal under which Tata would acquire Sumitomo's 53.5 percent stake in Swaraj Mazda could be worth up to 54 million dollars, the newspaper said... A Tata Motors spokesman called the report "speculation"... India's light commercial vehicle market is growing at 40 percent a year while new car sales in the country rose 61 percent year on year in November... The Economic Times said the acquisition of a majority stake in Swaraj Mazda would also provide Tata Motors access to technology from Japan's Isuzu for commercial vehicle and buses... Isuzu holds a 1.99 percent stake in Swaraj Mazda... (Tata Motors, India's biggest commercial vehicle maker, is in talks to buy a key stake in auto firm Swaraj Mazda)* Europe - Iveco chief addresses truck manufacturers
Brussels,Belgium -trans.eu/HGV Ireland -December 9th, 2009: -- Iveco’s Chief Executive Officer, Paolo Monferino, addressed the annual international ACEA transport policy event, held last week (3 December) in Brussels on the theme; A Global Approach to Sustainable Freight Transport... Monferino, recalled the definition of Sustainable Developments, as discussed in the 1987 Brundtland report titled ‘Our Common Future Way’, and the measures taken by commercial vehicle manufacturers over the past 20 years to bring vehicles to the environmentally friendly Euro V and EEV levels enjoyed today... With the current priority being to reduce road transport CO2 emissions, Monferino, outlined the importance of second generation renewable fuels that are not in competition with food crops and are suitable for use by all commercial vehicles on the road today... Monferino, then outlined the vehicle technologies specifically developed for urban transport, a segment of the industry where pollution is most important and where significant CO2 reductions are possible. This included electric vehicles, diesel / electric hybrids, compressed natural gas vehicles capable of running on bio-methane and today’s conventional diesel engined vehicles, offered with EEV certification (Europe’s most stringent emission standard currently available)...* USA - Daimler Truck Financial tops in dealer satisfaction
Roanoke,TX,USA -Refrigerated Transport -Dec 11, 2009: -- In one of the toughest environments for the US trucking industry in years, Daimler Truck Financial achieved the number-one ranking in the annual dealer satisfaction survey conducted by the American Truck Dealers (ATD), a division of the National Automobile Dealers Association... As the captive finance company supporting Daimler Trucks North America dealers selling Freightliner and Western Star brands, Daimler Truck Financial recaptured the top spot from Paccar Finance, which supports dealers selling Kenworth and Peterbilt brands...
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