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Sep 28, 2012

TRUCKMAKERS NEWS * USA

* USA / New York - Truck Makers Can't Appeal Transmission Antitrust Ruling 

NY,USA -Law360, by Lisa Uhlman -September 26, 2012: -- A Delaware federal judge blocked a move Wednesday by Mack Trucks Inc., Navistar International Corp. and others to appeal an order preserving a proposed antitrust class action filed by a vehicle transporter's Chapter 7 trustee alleging they conspired to maintain Eaton Corp.'s monopoly in the market for large truck transmissions... U.S. District Judge, Sue L. Robinson, denied the defendants' motion for certification of an interlocutory appeal of her Sept. 30, 2011, ruling that kept the antitrust suit intact...


* Michigan / USA - Heavy-duty Ram truck line going commercial  

(Photo from Chrysler: The 2013 Ram 3500 heavy-duty truck could see its first deliveries in March) 
Auburn Hills,MICH,USA -The Detroit News, By Doug Guthrie -September 27, 2012: -- Chrysler Group LLC is ramping up efforts in the commercial truck market by announcing new engineering and marketing commitments as the company unveils its 2013 line of Ram heavy-duty trucks... Ram's new 2500, 3500 and 5500 trucks were to be unveiled today at the State Fair of Texas in Dallas... The truck-building brand of Chrysler Group LLC also planned to announce the creation of a commercial truck division within the brand, featuring its own specialized design, engineering and marketing staff...


* Analysis: OEMs rebooting truck market strategies 

New York,NY,USA - Fleet Owner, by Sean Kilcarr -Sep. 21, 2012: -- The announcement that UD Trucks is shutting off North American sales of its medium-duty product, coupled by the latest downswing in Class 8 orders in the U.S., would seem on the surface at least to indicate a truck market in retrograde in this region of the world... Dig a little deeper, though, and you’ll find something very different at work... Let’s start with UD’s move to abandon importing its trucks into the U.S.... First of all, the U.S. market is very crowded with Japanese medium-duty cabover manufacturers – Hino Motors (a division of Toyota), Mitsubishi Fuso, and Isuzu Trucks – and domestic builder Paccar just got back into the cabover game this year via a new model sold via its Kenworth Truck Co. division... Second – and much more importantly – medium-duty is the one segment of the U.S. truck market forecast to decline over time in terms of volumes, as the renewed growth of major metropolitan centers in this country (and around the world for that matter) will demand more light-duty sized equipment for skipping about crowded urban roads, while relying on mire heavy-duty trucks to deliver freight between big “megacities” ...

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