* Ontario - Military to get logistics trucks 11 years after first being proposed
-- An American company has won two competitive contracts totalling $843 million to supply 1,500 trucks, 300 trailers and armoured protection kits... The assembly of the vehicles will be done in Quebec. The contracts awarded to Mack Defense, LLC, of Allentown, Pa.,USA, will mean the creation of 700 jobs in Canada... The contract also calls for the U.S. firm to provide five years of in-service support, with an option to extend up to 15 years... Ryan Werling, president and CEO of Mack Defense, said in a statement, that the company has supplied the Canadian military with trucks since the Second World War and it’s honored to continue that tradition... Once delivered in 2017-18, the trucks will replace 1980s-vintage vehicles, which are used by all three branches of the military to haul supplies, weapons, equipment and troops...
(Photo: One of the Mack trucks model sold to Canadian Army) -- Ottawa, ONT, CAN –The Canadian Press, by Murray Brewster - Jul 16, 2015Labels: military trucks, truck sales USA and Canada, truckmakers news USA and Canada
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