Part of Coca-Cola’s bright red truck fleet is about to go green, at least from a technology standpoint.
Atlanta-based Coca-Cola Enterprises Inc., Coke’s largest bottler, has agreed to buy 120 trucks this year using a diesel-electric hybrid system developed by Eaton Corp., a Cleveland-based firm, the companies announced Wednesday at the Work Truck Show in downtown […]

Britain’s biggest-selling 4×4 pick-up truck is being recalled so that an airbag problem can be corrected, after the vehicle received an “extremely poor” safety rating.
The Nissan Navara received only one star for the protection it offered its occupants in a crash test conducted under the European New Car Assessment Programme (Euro NCAP).
Identification of the slow […]

The 2009 Nissan Murano was the best performer in new crash tests of midsize sport utility vehicles, according to results released today by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety.
The Hummer H3 had one of the poorest showings.
The institute, which is financed by the insurance industry, said the redesigned Murano was the only vehicle among the […]

THE City Council will be conducting its own investigation into the controversial purchase of the City Government of 10 dump trucks the same day the City Legal Office assured the public of an impartial probe on the issue.
Councilor Alex Paglomutan filed a resolution seeking a formal inquiry on the dump trucks deal.
Councilors Catalino Alisbo and […]

Days after the snow fell last week, many city streets were still waiting to see a snow plow.
It’s clear road crews need help, but they won’t get it from some new additions to the city fleet - a dozen dump trucks that must stay on the sidelines.
The vehicle’s don’t have four-wheel drive and can’t be […]

Daimler Trucks recently launched its ‘Shaping Future Transportation’ initiative at a press conference in the spectacular Mercedes-Benz Museum in Stuttgart, Germany. Dr. Wolfgang Warnecke, global manager of automotive fuels development for Royal Dutch Shell, opened the affair, which was attended by Today’s Trucking editorial director Rolf Lockwood.”Transportation continues to be the preserve of oil,” he […]

The company that developed one of the first mid-sized sport utility vehicles and brought you an ad campaign with a fibbing salesman says it will stop selling new passenger vehicles in North America.
Isuzu Motors Ltd. said Wednesday it will end distribution of its sport utility vehicles and pickup trucks starting Jan. 31, 2009.
The Japanese company […]

In the very early ’80s, yours truly was dispatched to Vegas (back when the town still seemed to have a Rat Packer or two floating around) for a very razz-ma-tazz roll-out of Isuzu commercial trucks in the U.S.
Now the thing is I can’t recall whether the work trucks or the cars, pickups and SUVs (sold […]

Dennis R. Slagle, president and CEO, Volvo Construction Equipment North America, Inc., has been named president and chief executive officer of Mack Trucks, Inc., succeeding Paul L. Vikner. The appointment of Slagle, who will also become a member of Volvo’s Global Executive Committee, is effective April 1, 2008.
Vikner will become vice chairman of the Mack […]

Two people were in critical condition when their vehicle was wedged under a Dump truck in Bountiful.
A 20 year-old woman was driving a Mazda3 south on Main Street when she lost control of the car, jumped the median and hit a stationary dump truck on 400 North, police said.
The driver of the Mazda and her […]