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TRUCKMAKERS NEWS * USA - Navistar to Open Third Plant in Alabama
* Illinois - Cat’s CT660 hits the streets with high hopes
(Video from YouTube: Caterpillar hosted a special ride and drive event at its Edwards, IL, demonstration and learning center to show off its new CT660 vocational truck)
Edwards,ILL,USA -Fleet Owner, by Sean Kilcarr -Sep 28, 2011: -- With shipments to customers already underway and production expected to be fully ramped up by October’s end, Caterpillar is placing a big bet on the back of its new CT660 vocational truck – expecting it to make Caterpillar one of the dominant, if not the dominant, truck maker in the vocational market by 2016... Caterpillar is having the CT660 built in Garland, TX, via a partnership with Navistar, with the CT660’s “bones” based on Navistar’s PayStar chassis... That’s why George Taylor, director of Caterpillar’s global on-highway truck group, noted that the “real magic” for vocational trucks in the near future isn’t just about understanding what the customer wants today, but creating something the customer didn’t know he or she needed – but can’t live without once they get their hands on it...
* Indiana - AM General to lay off 350, cut Humvee production
South Bend,IND,USA -Bloomberg Business Week, by Tom Coyne -29 Sept 2011: -- The northern Indiana-based company that makes Humvees for the military plans to lay off about 350 workers nationwide next month because of defense budget cuts and the drawdown of U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, company officials said Thursday...
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