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TRUCKMAKERS NEWS * USA
* Illinois - Navistar RV could be sold by struggling truck maker
(Photo from Truth Photo, by Tom Fougerousse - Diane McNulty & Steve Dreisbach of Navistar RV practice their putting next to the Diplomat)Wakarusa,ILL,USA -The Elkhart Truth, by Justin Leighty -14 Feb 2013: -- Illinois-based Navistar continues looking at selling off its Navistar RV business as the struggling truck maker tries to focus on its core businesses... William Osborne, president of Navistar RV, gave details to Monaco/Holiday Rambler owners last month... Navistar bought the former Monaco Coach in 2009 following Monaco’s bankruptcy and moved all operations to Wakarusa in 2011. Last year they rebranded the company Navistar RV... Navistar RV has the Monaco, Holiday Rambler and R-Vision lines, produced in Wakarusa and Elkhart... After leadership changes last year, Navistar announced in September that it launched a review of all non-core businesses with the goal of improving return on invested capital... Navistar lost $2.8 billion in the fourth quarter of 2012...
* California - Survivor trucks built to roll through attacks. Bulletproof walls, sniper platform among features
(Photo by Larry Edsall / Special to The Detroit News - Jim DeLozier’s “Survivor Truck” can be a mobile command station or enable a family to live off the grid for two years)Costa Mesa,CAL,USA -The Detroit News, by Larry Edsall -February 14, 2013: -- DeLozier is a Costa Mesa, Calif.-based "security consultant" who builds and sells what he calls survivor trucks... That's not survivor as in an old vehicle that's endured a lot of time on the road but is still chugging along... That's survivor as in living through biological, chemical or maybe even nuclear warfare, let alone a good old-fashioned shootout... DeLozier's showpiece is a 13-tone, 1980 Chevrolet C-70, a big heavy-duty truck that he's equipped with a 360-degree protective cage, bulletproof walls, a command and communications center, room to sleep as many as 12 in a pinch, assorted storage compartments, and don't forget an armored sniper platform... Among other things, those storage compartments hold medical supplies and enough freeze-dried food for a family like DeLozier's to live for two years without a trip to the grocery. The truck carries its own water purification system — and a 120-gallon water tank — and produces electricity with solar panels (4,135 watts worth) and mobile generators... Air going inside the truck and its various compartments is filtered against contaminants. Need more protection? There are gas masks, chemical suits, self-contained breathing apparatus and night-vision cameras...
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