* Indiana - Bi-Fuel Chevrolet Silverado, GMC Sierra Truck production begins. Natural Gas Trucks will be offered to retail and fleet customers
Fort Wayne, ,USA -Truck Trend, by Edward A. Sanchez -November 12, 2012: -- With domestic natural gas production at an all-time high, and prices at an all-time low, the fuel is an increasingly attractive alternative to gasoline and diesel for retail and fleet customers. All the domestic truck makers have an entry in the market, and GM started production last week of its bi-fuel Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra models at its Fort Wayne, Indiana, plant. Powered by the Vortec 6000 6.0-liter V-8 engine, the CNG/gasoline 2500 HD models have a combined total range of 650 miles, the highest bi-fuel range of any truck from an original equipment manufacturer, according to GM claims... The bi-fuel package is a $11,000 option available in most of the bed and cab configurations offered on the Silverado and Sierra 2500 HD, including extended and crew cabs, regular and long-bed, and two- or four-wheel drive...
* DC - NTSB issues top 10 list; includes mandated collision avoidance technologies
Washington,DC,USA -The Trucker -14 Nov 2012: -- The National Transportation Safety Board today released its 2013 Most Wanted List, with six of the 10 issues focusing on highway travel — including what it called “the number one killer on the list — substance-impaired driving,” and for the first time, a call for mandated motor vehicle collision avoidance technologies.
The U.S. government should require automakers to make the latest collision prevention technologies standard equipment on all new cars and trucks, a move that could reduce fatal highway accidents by more than half, according to the federal accident investigators... The technologies include lane departure warning, forward collision warning, adaptive cruise control, automatic braking and electronic stability control. They are available on some higher-end model cars and trucks and of course, on some Class 8 heavy-duty trucks... The National Transportation Safety Board said they be should required on all vehicles, despite the auto industry's concern that doing so would add thousands of dollars to the cost of a new vehicle...
* Connecticut - Plainville gets new Rescue Truck
(Photo: KME's industrial fire apparatus designed to protect power generation facilities, including nuclear facilities)
Plainville,CT,USA -The Hartford Courant, by BILL LEUKHARDT -November 13, 2012: -- A new rescue truck, which carries items needed at fires, accidents and emergency scenes is now in town and will soon be put into service... "It's a big tool box," Raymond Swanson, chief of the Plainville Volunteer Fire Department, said Tuesday of the $588,000 vehicle, brought here last week from manufacturer KME plant in Nesquehoning, Pa... The new vehicle carries rescue tools needed for fire or injury calls, including inflatable air bags to lift heavy objects at accident and industrial calls... Labels: truckmakers news USA
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