CHALLENGER BUYS ELGIN MOTOR FREIGHT March 7, 2001 CAMBRIDGE, Ont. -- Challenger Motor Freight has acquired Elgin Motor Freight, a full-service transportation carrier...
CUMMINS LOWERS EMISSIONS THROUGH CALIBRATIONS March 6, 2001 COLUMBUS, Ind. -- Cummins is now offering owners of its engines an electronic calibration that it says will lower l...
ALBERTA READIES FOR TRUXPO 2001 March 5, 2001 EDMONTON, Alta. - The Alberta Motor Transport Association is busy preparing for Truxpo 2001, the ninth running of w...
BORGWARNER RELEASES NEW FAN CLUTCH March 1, 2001 MARSHALL, Mich. -- BorgWarner is introducing the new K26RA Fail Safe On-Off Fan Clutch.
FREIGHTLINER TO SELL SUV-LIKE UNIMOG February 22, 2001 PORTLAND, Ore. -- Freightliner LLC, the company that makes Freightliner trucks, will sell the Unimog, a SUV-like tr...
CANAM MANAC GROUP SALES HIT $1.1 BILLION February 22, 2001 BOUCHERVILLE, Que. -- The Canam Manac Group Inc. posted sales of $1,110,597,000 for the fiscal year ended Dec. 31,...
COLLEGE PUSHES TRUCK-RELATED EXPANSION February 20, 2001 SCARBOROUGH, Ont. -- Centennial College has moved into the letters-of-support phase of the expansion of its Heavy M...
HEAVY-DUTY TRUCK SPEC’ING MADE EASY February 19, 2001 DON MILLS, Ont. -- Www.trucknews.com, the Web site of Truck News, Truck West and Motortruck, has introduced the lat...
ANTI-TRUCK GROUP CRASH PLOWS INTO MEXICAN TRUCK ISSUE February 16, 2001 OTTAWA, Ont. -- The Canadian anti-truck lobby group CRASH has added Mexican trucks to its list of bogeymen it says...
VOLVO DELIVERS 1,244 TRUCKS IN JANUARY, DOWN FROM 1,552 February 16, 2001 STOCKHOLM, Sweden -- Deliveries from Volvo Trucks in January 2001 totalled 5,294 trucks, with sales in North Americ...
NAVISTAR REPORTS LOSS IN FIRST QUARTER February 16, 2001 CHICAGO, Ill. -- Navistar lost US$35 million, or 58 cents per diluted share, for the first quarter ended Jan. 31, c...
THERMO KING MAKES QUIETER, ECO-FRIENDLY REEFER February 16, 2001 WOODCLIFF LAKE, N.J. -- Thermo King, a division of Ingersoll-Rand, has developed a new, quieter and more environmen...
INTERNATIONAL ROLLS OUT NEW RIGS February 15, 2001 LAS VEGAS, Nev. - International yesterday launched a new series of trucks, the 4000, 7000 and 8000. It calls them i...
PACCAR, CUMMINS AGREE TO ENGINE PACT February 13, 2001 BELLEVUE, Wash.-- Paccar has entered into a long-term supply agreement with Cummins Inc.
VOLVO CUTS 400, TO MAKE FEWER SLEEPER-CABS February 12, 2001 NEW RIVER VALLEY, Va -- Volvo Trucks North America is eliminating about 400 jobs from its New River Valley, Va. Fac...