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TRUCKMAKERS' NEWS * WORLDWIDE
* Sweden - Volvo trucks increases production
Stockholm,Sweden -HGV UK -January 27, 2010: -- In recent months Volvo Trucks has seen positive signs of increased demand from its customers, albeit from a very low level, but now thanks to a successful reduction in its new truck inventory, the production of new vehicles will now be increased... The increased production means fewer lay-off days at the Gent assembly plant in Belgium and for the Swedish factories in Umeå and Tuve; it means more work on Fridays... Umeå, which supplies many Volvo Truck factories with cabs, will re-employ staff to manage the overall production needs. The Gent factory will increase the staffing in the cab-trim to be in phase with the capacity of the final assembly. At the same time the factory in Curitiba in Brazil levels up one shift... (Picture from Volvo
* Sweden - Volvo tests methane-diesel trucks with Swedish operators
Stockholm,Sweden -BigLorryBlog -January 27, 2010: ... Next month Volvo Trucks will be starting field tests of methane-diesel engines in commercial operation together with a number of major Swedish customers... The first seven customers participating in the field test are Borås Energi & Miljö, Ragn-Sells Sollentuna, Schenker-TGM Göteborg, Slaka Potatis Linköping, Svebol Logistics/Lidl Tumba, Viebke Åkeri Helsingborg and XR Miljöhantering Skövde. The eighth truck in the field test programme will be placed with a selected customer in the next few days. The trucks involved are two Volvo 7-litre models, the Volvo FL and Volvo FE...* France - New Renault Master
Paris,France -TNN (UK) -26 Jan 2009: -- As of April 2010, Renault Trucks’ Delivery range will see a new addition with the latest Renault Master. With a new design, new cab and new engine versions, this new offer also features new rear-wheel drive models... Renault Trucks will roll out the following versions throughout 2010: panel van, chassis cab, chassis double cab, chassis cowl, platform cab, platform cowl. The new models will be available with front or rear-wheel drive according to the version, and with single or twin wheels... From 2.8t to 4.5t GVW in panel van, chassis cab, chassis double cab, chassis cowl, platform cab, platform cowl versions, with front or rear-wheel drive according to the version, and with single or twin wheels, up to 17m3 of loading capacity and 2,254kg payload in the panel van version and 2,495kg in the chassis cab version, the new Renault Master will transport just about anything. All this, with fuel consumption achievable of under 8 litres/per 100km.1...* Japan - Toyota Motor Plans To Sell 8.27 Mln Vehicles Worldwide In 2010
Tokyo,Japan -RTTNews -26 Jan 2009: -- Toyota Motor Corp. stated that it intends to sell 8.27 million vehicles throughout the world this year 2010, an increase of 6% from the previous year... Automaker Toyota Motor sold 7.81 million vehicles worldwide in 2009, a decline of 13% from the last year. This number includes Toyota's group companies comprising of truckmaker Hino Motors and Daihatsu Motor Co., which makes small models, the company added... (Image from fareastgizmos: Hino ASV)
* USA - Engine to boost ethanol efficiency. Van Buren-based Ricardo to unveil it today
Van Buren Township,MICH,USA -FREE PRESS, by JEWEL GOPWANI -Jan. 26, 2010: -- Ricardo, with North American headquarters in Van Buren Township, said the technology will be a good fit for a broad range of vehicles, from compacts to Class-6 trucks... Ethanol, alcohol usually made from corn that is added to gasoline, is cleaner than gasoline and typically offers 30% less fuel economy than gasoline. Ricardo said its engine -- which it dubs an Ethanol Boosted Direct Injection engine -- can more than make up for that gap when using a blend of 40% ethanol and 60% gasoline... A typical 6-liter engine can get 11.2 m.p.g. in city driving, while simulations of Ricardo's engine indicate that it can get 13.1 m.p.g. on the highway using a 40%-ethanol blend... The new engine comes as the ethanol industry pushes Congress for rules requiring higher levels of ethanol in gasoline... The firm plans to put the newly developed engine through its paces in the next few months, installed in two GMC Sierra pickups...* China - MAN shows great confidence to China's truck market
Pekin,China -People's Daily News -January 26, 2010: -- MAN Truck and Bus China plans to grow sales in China this year and further expands its market share in the imported premium heavy-duty truck segment... After witnessing a slowdown in the first half of last year, China's heavy-duty truck segment has started to recover in the second half and is likely to grow 10 to 15 percent this year... According to Lim, the government's huge investments in infrastructure construction would help improve demand for large-displacement and heavy-duty trucks... (Photo from chinatruck.org)
* Brazil - MAN boosts truck output in
Resende,RJ,Brazil -Paraiba Paradise -January 26, 2010: -- MAN will raise capacity at its Brazilian truck plant by up to a third to meet a rapidly rising demand, in a move that illustrates the fast economic recovery of the world’s largest developing countries... The German conglomerate will re-introduce a third shift at its Resende plant in the Rio de Janeiro county, Antonio Roberto Cortes president of MAN Latin America, told the Financial Times (UK)... The move will shift capacity from 50,000 to up to 72,000 trucks a year and will lead to the creation of 700 jobs at the plant, which is currently employing 4700... It came as the Latin America’s largest truck maker posted record sales in December, spurred by government incentives for trucks and buses and growing consumer demand in Brazil...* USA - Continental tires standard on Navistar vocational trucks
Chicago,ILL,USA -Today's Trucking -26 Jan 2010: -- Navistar International says that Continental truck tires are the standard fitment for all International PayStar, WorkStar, and DuraStar severe service and medium duty vehicles as of January 1, 2010... Continental's expansion into the regional, on-off highway and construction segment is backed up by truck tires engineered with maximum resistance to damage, tread patterns designed for optimum traction, extra tough compounding and stone ejection systems...
* India - Tata, Mahindra Fall on Concern Banks May Curb Loans
Mumbai,India -Bloomberg, by Vipin V. Nair -Jan. 27, 2010: -- Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd., the nation’s biggest sport-utility vehicle and tractor maker, and Tata Motors Ltd., India’s biggest truckmaker, led declines among automakers on concern the central bank will tighten credit... Banks may curb auto loans, hurting demand, if the Reserve Bank of India takes steps to tighten liquidity to tame inflation at its monetary policy review on Jan. 29, said Umesh Karne, an analyst with BRICS Securities Ltd. in Mumbai. Rising prices of commodities also put pressure on auto companies’ profit margins, he said...
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