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Aug 6, 2013

TRUCKMAKERS NEWS * USA

* Missouri - Ford to add third shift to F-150 plant

Claycomo,MO,USA -Pick Up trucks, by Mark Williams -August 5, 2013: -- Ford’s Kansas City Assembly Plant in Claycomo, Mo., which produces several versions of the popular Ford F-150 (and the soon-to-be-produced full-size Transit van), will add a third production shift to meet growing pickup truck demand... Ford F-Series sales are up more than 22 percent for the first half of 2013 when compared to last year, with more than 60,000 F-150, F-250 and F-350 models sold just last month. Of those numbers, the vast majority of those sales are the current 12th-generation half-ton model. The extra 900 workers on the third shift in Missouri will be specifically added to the F-150 production line, with another 1,100 jobs coming for the Transit production line at a later date. Transit vans will go on sale later next summer...


* Michigan - Could global competition lower pickup prices?

(Photo from Toyota: The 2014 Toyota Tundra) 
Detroit,MICH,USA -The Detroit News, by Karl Henkel -August 5, 2013: -- U.S. may end truck tariff to open up global trade. Axing 50-year tariff would be to court automaker giant Japan... A 50-year tariff on light trucks continues to contribute to rising pickup prices in the U.S. and exists largely as a bartering chip for American automakers seeking to crack new global markets... Japan-based Toyota Motor Corp., Nissan Motor Co. and Honda Motor Co. build trucks for the U.S. market on U.S. soil. None is imported from Japan, so none is subject to the 25 percent tariff. Of the 1.9 million pickups sold in the U.S. last year, only about 200 — mostly specialty orders — were hit with the import tax... But the tariff, enacted in 1963, is not without impact. Some industry experts believe American consumers are paying thousands extra for pickup trucks because of a lack of true market competition... Japan is virtually closed to U.S. automakers, and without the truck tariff, they’d have no leverage in free-trade talks. But now, the U.S. is using the tariff as a key bargaining chip to possibly gain entry into Japan, currently the third-largest auto market in the world...


* California - Freightliner continues to gain share; receives orders for 15,000 Cascadia Evolutions


(Photo: Freightliner has received orders for 15,000 Cascadia Evolutions in just six months)
Napa,CAL,USA -Truck News (CAN) -Jul 30, 2013:  -- It has been a mediocre first half of the year for new truck orders, but a spectacular one for Freightliner relative to its competition... Mark Lampert, senior vice-president of sales and marketing, today projected 2013 will end with Class 8 sales down 5-7% compared to last year, while Classes 6-7 demand will be up 7-8%...  However, Freightliner thus far has been able to outperform the overall market and maintain steady production levels, Lampert noted... Freightliner has seen its Class 8 market share surge to 39% year-to-date...

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