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Aug 24, 2012

TRUCKS' SALES * WORLDWIDE

* Sweden - Scania and PostNord Close Deal for Heavy Trucks

Gothenburg,Sweden -InAutoNews (Romania) -23 Aug 2012: -- PostNord and Scania closed a deal according to which the automaker will supply heavy trucks for the distribution of packages and letters in Norway, Denmark and Sweden... More than half of the order will be delivered with Scania’s P-series trucks, used for both regional and local distribution...  The order for longer distances will be delivered with Scania’s G-series trucks that are equipped with a 13-litre 400 hp engine. All Scania trucks meet the EEV, the highest environmental classification... The PostNord order is Scania’s single largest sale so far this year... PostNord is a holding company formed in 2009 by the Danish-based Post Danmark A/S and the Swedish-based PostenAB. Since then it has offered logistics and communication solutions to, from and within the Nordic region. The company has around 1,600 trucks...


* DC / USA - Oshkosh, Lockheed Win Contracts for Military Truck

(Photo: This The Next Hummer?)
Washington,DC,USA -Dow Jones Newswires/Fox Business, by Bob Tita -August 23, 2012: -- Specialty-truck maker Oshkosh Corp. and defense contractor Lockheed Martin Corp. received contracts Wednesday to develop a replacement for the U.S. military's Humvee utility truck... AM General LLC of Indiana, the privately held incumbent manufacturer of the Humvee, also received one of the three engineering and development contracts, which range from $56 million to $66 million. Over the next year, each contractor will deliver nearly two dozen prototype trucks for testing and performance evaluation. The prototypes are expected to be incorporated into the military's final specifications for a production contract in 2015... The JLTV program, the cost was capped at $250,000 per truck and the initial production run was limited to about 18,000 vehicles over five years. The U.S. government has been purchasing Humvees in recent years for an average price of about $143,000 a truck... Navistar said it could have an opportunity to jump back into the program when bids are solicited for the JLTV's production contract following the completion of development phase of the program...

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