The West Australian government is considering compensation payouts for the deaths of three men and loss of trucks and goods in a bushfire. Three WA men, Lewis Bedford, 60, Rob Taylor, 46, and Trevor Murley, 53, were killed when wildfire trapped them in trucks on the Great Eastern Highway between Coolgardie and Southern Cross on [...]
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Garry Lewis has been promoted to executive vice president and chief operating officer of USA Truck Inc. of Van Buren. Eric Brown has been promoted to the position of senior vice president, operations. Both promotions are effective immediately. Lewis began his career at USA Truck in 1986 and most recently was senior vice president of [...]
Road transport service providers and logistics players are not a happy lot. The “impending hike” in diesel and petrol prices has sent the industry into a spin. For the last two months, various government quarters have indicated aspects of a imminent fuel price hike which, according to them, is an imperative given the hike in [...]
Natural gas vehicles an effort to move from diesel engine Kenworth Truck Co. plans to begin large-scale production of heavy-duty trucks powered by liquefied natural gas at its Renton plant next year. The move to LNG trucks is the latest by Kenworth and its parent company, Bellevue-based Paccar Inc., to look for alternatives to conventional [...]
A member of Kenworth’s dealer network of nearly 300 locations in the United States and Canada, Truck Enterprises is set to serve a wider range of customers in northern Virginia and the Washington, D.C., area with its new location in Manassas, Va. “Our new location will meet customers’ needs now and well into the future,” [...]
Hino Motors, a Japanese manufacturer of trucks, buses and other vehicles, plans to open an assembly works to produce trucks in Russia. The agreement was signed by Hino and Technoholding Sumotori, basing in Vladivostok. The assembly works will be set up in the Vladivostok’s satellite town Artem and is expected to be launched in one [...]
RCMP have publicly identified the log truck driver killed near Fort St. James on Wednesday as Robert Joseph Kandler, 44, of Prince George. He died in a collision with another logging truck near the 62-kilometre mark of the North Road, near Fort St. James. The road connects Fort St. James to Germanson Landing. No information [...]
Mack Trucks has named Matthew Walsh vice-president, export for its international operations business, effective immediately. In his new position, Walsh will be responsible for Mack’s international export business, sales and distribution development. His duties will include overseeing export marketing, truck and parts sales, logistics, customer support and distributor development. “The export component of Mack’s international [...]
A 70-year-old driver had a lucky escape yesterday when his log truck rolled on Glen Huon Rd, near Huonville. The truck was travelling east towards Huonville yesterday when it failed to take a left-hand turn. The truck crossed the road and ended up in a culvert on the right-hand side of the road. The driver [...]
All the major exhibitors at the 2008 show trumpeted their commitment to fuel economy—but they also flexed some muscle It was tough to focus on all the new vehicles at the North American International Auto Show when so much of the show-stand conversations seemed to be about falling sales, the nose-diving economy, and the 2008 [...]