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KRTS, Pearson Dunn voice support for option of automatic transmission for road tests
KRTS Transportation Specialists & Pearson Dunn Insurance recently threw some support behind decision of Ontario Ministry of Transportation for allowing automatic transmissions as option for the road tests of Class A. KRTS, operates a lot of training facilities all across this province and they said that they welcome this change saying that the trucking companies which they do business along with every day are now requesting that people that we educate, should be educated about automatic transmissions. They also said that they will be answering needs of the customers. This was said by Kim Richardson, who is KRTS president. They will be continuing to offer training for manual, multi speed transmissions so that the clients can competently operate trucks with either of transmission, but [...]
Posted in : News | May 15, 2012 | Comments 0
Truck cancellations hit 2-year high as rebound slows
Heavy-truck orders of North American are now hitting speed bump, and cancellations are jumping to fastest pace in around 2 years as stagnating recovery of economy prompts the fleet owners for scrap purchases or delay. The rate for March shot up at 9% from about 6.1% one month earlier, says the data that was compiled by Bloomberg. The North American shipments of freight fell by around 1.3 percent in the month of March & grew less than one percent for April, says Cass Info Systems Inc.’s Index of Freight Shipment. The buyers are getting squeezed due to slower volumes of cargo, tighter credit & prices of diesel fuel exceeding the levels of year-earlier even along with recent declines. This might erode the profits & truck makers like Paccar Inc. (PCAR) & Navistar International [...]
Posted in : News | May 12, 2012 | Comments 0
New truck comes with bells and whistles and safety features
There aren't a lot of drivers which are an automobile that is more around 20 years old and is still on road. But there is Hose 3 with his engine tanker from 1991. However, this thing is now of the past. Fire company in the last week unveiled the new Rosenbauer of 2012. It is engine tanker having plenty of features of safety along with some functions which aren't available on the older trucks. Blake Garrison, who is president at Garrsion Rescue & Fire, said that this truck will hold around water of 1,350 gallons and will pump about 1,500 per minute when it is connected to source of water. This truck, he says, is made keeping safety in mind. Amongst new features of safety, there are steps which lower to ground at just push of one button, enabling the firefighters for more safely boarding [...]
Posted in : News | May 08, 2012 | Comments 0
OTA, Thunder Bay working for a solution to the proposed truck ban
Representatives from OTA or Ontario Trucking Association had met along with the officials at Thunder Bay in this week for discussing some alternatives to proposed ban of truck for 1 of this city's favored routes of truck - the Dawson Road. McKevitt founder of Trucking - John McKevitt, the president of OTA David Bradley, & OTA senior VP Stephen Laskowski had met along with the Thunder Bay mayor - Keith Hobbs, & councilor of city - Trevor Giertuga, who had been advocating regarding ban of truck on the Dawson Road – which is this city’s busiest west-easy commercial route of truck. During February, the city council of Thunder Bay passed unanimously resolution of Giertuga’s calling for big restriction on the vehicles (excluding the buses, the RVs, the gravel, the float & [...]
Posted in : News | May 05, 2012 | Comments 0
Motorcyclist critically injured in collision with pickup truck
Honolulu police are investigating motorcyclist crash which happened around 2 pm on Sunday at Kamehameha Highway in Ohai Street at Wahiawa. Police had said motorcyclist was riding at very high speed rate in south bound direction after which he lost all control and it hit silver Toyota Tacoma. Police had shut down 2 lanes of the traffic while the investigation was going on. The friends of motorcyclist had identified him as Mililani's David Kim. According to them, he was driving along with some other people of Koa Puna club of motorcycle. Manny Newman, his friend said that he was really cool guy with good nature. He was down to earth too. Paramedics had brought motorcyclist @ Queens Medical Center with critical condition. His friends said that motorcyclist had recently lost his wife [...]
Posted in : News | Apr 30, 2012 | Comments 0
Volvo will raise the European truck output
World number 2 truck maker Volvo will increase the output as the demand is been recovering for Europe where the expectations in 2012 are raised after the first quarter forecasts. Volvo is rival to Daimler - German leader in market and they said that European market will contract around 230,000 units in this year as compared to previous estimates of about 220,000 trucks. For last year, the sales were around 242,400 units. Company says that due to increased intake of orders, they are planning on slight increase of production rates for Europe in second quarter. Shares of Volvo were up by 5.5% for the early trading. European truck makers are been bracing for some tougher times as the debt of euro zone turmoil the home market and switch that are rules-driven to the new engines hits the demand [...]
Posted in : News | Apr 28, 2012 | Comments 0
Volvo expands XE powertrains; develops LCV spec’
Volvo Trucks recently expanded their XE (or exceptional efficiency) power train package for including 2 new 16-litres offerings, and it includes 1 aimed that is at the LCV or long combination vehicle applications. Ed Saxman, the drive train product manager along with Volvo said while announcing new packages that the fuel-efficient first integrated power train, that is specifically targeted at heavy on-high way big combination automobile. Award-winning 13 litres XE13 Volvo package of powertrain got introduced in the last September for the main stream, 80,000 lbs applications. XE13 & XE16 packages include set of specs – and central to them are Volvo I-Shift transmission & Volvo engines. Through one process is dubbed ‘downspeeding,’ it lets the engine for going at 200 rpm [...]
Posted in : News | Apr 24, 2012 | Comments 0
High-tech Delo Truck making the rounds at Ontario, Quebec
Chevron's famous Delo Truck is now making rounds @ Ontario & Quebec in this week & next will stop @ marketers of 'First Source' & bring centre of mobile learning for customers. Delo truck has concluded Ontario leg of the tour recently @ Performance Equipment at Mississauga, before it set at Quebec where it'll make 7 more stops. Bob Meachen who is president at Chevron Lubricants in Canada, was present at this event. The customers were greeted and there were tours provided for high-tech impressive trailer. He says that there have been a couple of years since trailer had visited Canada. The truck is a new one and it is designed newly. There are plenty of on-board modules & it is educational plat form too along with being banner for Delo brand. A lot of people are the [...]
Posted in : News | Apr 20, 2012 | Comments 0
Kenworth delivers 250,000th T800 truck to Canadian company
Kenworth recently celebrated an important milestone in this week: production & delivery of the 250,000th truck of T800. This company celebrated mark of quarter-million along with special ceremony @ Kenworth plant of assembly @ Renton in Wash. This landmark truck got delivered to the Trican Well Service which is Calgary-based and is 1 of North America's biggest providers in oil & gas services of pumping, along with operations @ Canada, US, Kazakhstan, Russia, Australia & North Africa. Gary Moore, the general manager of Kenworth & vice-president at PACCAR said that Kenworth T800 is versatile & hard-working automobile which customers get to count on in diversity of the demanding vocational & on-high way applications. He also said that Kenworth had celebrated 25th [...]
Posted in : News | Apr 19, 2012 | Comments 0
Glasvan introduces the industry to Autocar shunt trucks
Fleet operators & aficionados of equipment recently got a first look up-close @ Autocar Xspotter tractor terminal recently, at customer event which was hosted by the dealer Great Glasvan Dane. Glasvan was having a lot of units on the display and they represent 1st Auto car shunt trucks which built for Ontario market. Long time dealer of shunt trucks, Glasvan had announced deal along with Auto car late in the last year for becoming the 1st Canadian distributor. Auto car comes with storied history as heavy automobile manufacturer, and has been making terminal tractors for only past 4 years. George Cobham Jr., the vice-president or VP of sales & marketing along with Glasvan, said that his company has been working very closely along with Autocar for developing Canadian spec. He [...]
Posted in : News | Apr 09, 2012 | Comments 0