Tata Motors Ltd., the Indian automaker that’s building a $2,500 car, reported third-quarter net income that fell less than analysts estimated on higher truck sales and a one-time gain.
Net income declined to 4.99 billion rupees ($127 million), or 11.72 rupees a share, in the three months ended Dec. 31 from 5.13 billion rupees, or 12.67 […]

The closure of Interstate 90 is creating some delivery delays and added fuel costs for trucking companies, including Ludtke Pacific Trucking of Bellingham.
Snow and a danger of avalanche has closed the state’s main east-west route nearly continuously since Tuesday morning. Friday night, officials were hoping to open the interstate between 3 a.m. and 5 a.m. […]

We’d heard in the past India’s Mahindra & Mahindra is looking to expand beyond Jeep knock-offs and start leveraging their know-how as one of the world’s largest suppliers of tractors in order to get themselves into the US pickup market. According to Automotive News, Pawan Goenka, president of Mahindra’s automotive unit, is repeating that party […]

welcome to a new two-mode hybrid pickup from the maker of many a job boss’s chosen executive suite on wheels. It’s the 2009 GMC Sierra Hybrid, the latest among gas-electric trucks built like a hunk of lithospheric mineraloids, or so sang one gravel-larynx’d Detroiter. The Sierra follows its corporate cousin the Chevrolet Silverado Hybrid into […]

Industry rumor reports are that Chrysler and Tata will be collaborating on an electric version of the Tata Ace minitruck and it will be sold in the US.
” The deal, with the US carmaker’s Global Electric Motorcars unit, is for an electric version of Tata’s mini truck Ace that would be sold in the United […]

Although hybrids currently enjoy frontrunner status among environmentally conscious car shoppers, a recent study conducted by the RAND Corporation suggests clean diesel technology may have advantages over hybrids and ethanol vehicles, both for the consumer and for the environment. When factoring in the cost of making and transporting fuels, cost to the consumer and various […]

A Kearney trucking company plans to expand its Colorado service with the purchase of a Denver-area outfit.
Brown Transfer Company says it has acquired Eastern Plains Express of Commerce City, Colorado.
Terms were not disclosed.
Brown Transfer President Butch Brown says Eastern Plains Express is a perfect fit for his company, because it will give Brown more delivery […]

A school bus collided with a Dump truck in North Lindenhurst, sending nine elementary-school children and the bus driver to the hospital with minor cuts and scrapes, police said.
The minor collision was at Straight Path and 43rd Street, Suffolk County police said. The kids, believed to be in grades 2-4, were headed to William Rall […]

A major crash at Highway 17 and Ladner Trunk Road cut off traffic to and from the Tsawwassen ferry terminal yesterday morning.
A Dump truck plowed into a smaller vehicle at the intersection around 10 a.m. Several people were taken to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
The intersection remained closed to traffic until 11:30 a.m., and travellers planning […]