* Sweden - Volvo Truck Deliveries Down 4% In April
(Photo: A Volvo FH16 Truck)
Stockholm,Sweden -Dow Jones Newswires/Fox Business -May 16, 2012: -- Swedish truckmaker Volvo AB said Wednesday it delivered a total of 18,497 trucks in April, down 4% from April 2011...
- Deliveries:
* In Europe declined 22% to 6,776 vehicles. Declined 27% in Western Europe and fell 2% in Eastern Europe... Production in Europe will be moderately increased during the third quarter to adapt to demand and to keep delivery times in line with customer expectations, Volvo said...
* In North America were up 39% to 4,712 vehicles in April.
* In Latin America, deliveries declined 30% to 1,630.
* In Asia, the group delivered a total of 4,066 vehicles, up 9%.
- Volvo branded trucks deliveries in April decreased 11% to 8,448...
- Mack branded trucks deliveries totaled 2,582 vehicles, a 61% increase compared with April 2011... The vocational truck market remains weak, and plummeting natural gas prices have begun to reduce some of the energy-related activity that had benefited Mack in recent months, the company said...
* Belgium - Wabco inks deal to supply Iveco with brake technology
Brussels,Belgium -Fleet Owner -May 17, 2012: -- Wabco Holdings has signed a long-term agreement with Iveco to supply anti-lock braking technology to the truck manufacturer for its platform of light- and medium-duty trucks in Brazil. The deal begins in 2013... Brazil requires anti-lock braking (ABS) systems on new trucks, buses and trailers. The law requires 40% of all commercial vehicles sold in the country in 2013
to be supplied with the technology and 100% compliance in 2014, Wabco said...
* Italy - Iveco will not close its factory in Ulm
Torino,Italy -Euro Transport, by Claude Yvens -8 May 2012: -- Iveco has the intention to close its German factory in Ulm and relocate production to Madrid in Spain. The plant in Ulm is a legacy of Magirus-Deutz, one of the companies being acquired by Fiat Iveco to form the consortium in 1975. According to our information, it would not be a total closure, but a gradual shift from manufacturing to Madrid, partially offset by the development of activities related to nouvelels fire engines, large specialty-Iveco Magirus...
* India - Heavy duty truck producers grapple with slump in sales
Mumbai,India -The WSJ, LiveMint (USA), by Shally Seth Mohile -14 May 2012: -- Tata Motors Ltd, which sells one out of every two trucks sold in India, is paring production of heavy-duty trucks by as much as 40% in May and June from a year earlier after demand unexpectedly slumped in April, according to four parts suppliers to the company on condition of anonymity... Sale of medium and heavy-duty trucks shrinks 18% to 16,190 units in the month of April. Sales of the company’s medium- and heavy commercial vehicles plunged 29% in April to 9,829 units from a year earlier... While suppliers and transport experts agreed that a production cut after March—typically the busiest month for the commercial vehicle sales—is an annual phenomenon, it’s for the first time in three years after the economic slowdown of 2008-09 that they are seeing rationalisation to such an extent...
* India - Ashok Leyland to launch 5 new products in FY13
Tamil Nandu,India -Moneycontrol, by Nachiket Kelkar -May 15, 2012: -- India's second largest commercial vehicle maker Ashok Leyland will launch 5 new products in the domestic market in the current financial year, including the Avia range of vehicles... Last year, 809,532 commercial vehicles were sold in India according to Society of Indian Auto Manufacturers. Ashok Leyland sold 101,990 units. SIAM has forecast CV sales will grow 9-11% in fiscal 2013, slower than the 18% in the last financial year... Ashok Leyland had signed an agreement to acquire the truck business unit of Prague, Czech Republic based Avia in 2006... Avia makes the D Line series of trucks... Apart from Avia, the Hinduja Group company will also launch 10x2 five-axle truck in the second half of 2012-13, a full-flat front engined bus, called Jan Bus, a new low floor 8 tonne mini bus and a new BSIV engine powered haulage truck in its U-Truck range, K Sridharan, CFO said in a conference call...
* Germany - Siemens turns the truck trolley
Munich,Germany -Truck and Business (Belgium), by Claude Yvens -8 May 2012: -- The electrification of road transport of goods does not pass only through the development of electric trucks operating on batteries. Several power projects are under way by induction over the world, but this evening, Siemens offers a feed catenary, similar to the system used by trams and trolleybuses.
The German group has presented the concept at a conference on electric vehicles in the United States. EHighway called, this project uses hybrid trucks fitted with the equipment and software necessary to connect to a network of overhead cables. Outside this network, using their diesel vehicles. That would greatly reduce the disability of current hybrid vehicles on 100% electric mode ...
* Morocco - First DAF rolls off CFAO production line
Casablanca,Morocco -AutomotiveWorld -May 17, 2012: -- CFAO Motors Maroc marked assembly of its first DAF truck, a CF85 model 8x4 FAD CF 85430, a 430 horsepower vehicle with a tipping of 18 cubic metre, on 10 May 2012. The company has handled marketing and sales of DAF trucks in Morocco since 2005, and is only now adding production lines...
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