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Channel 19

‘Here comes plug-in diesel!’

So gushed the website and weekly update of the group Hybrid Owners of America about several automakers’ concept cars on display at the Geneva Auto Show last week. But in some sense, freight movement by plug-in powertrain is here, if not in the Class 8 realm, without even the diesel. Navistar recently announced expanded service […]

March 15, 2011

Business

Navistar-Modec expands eStar sales, service

To serve the eStar electric medium-duty truck, the Navistar-Modec EV Alliance has added sales and service facilities at Chicago International Trucks in Chicago; Rechtien International Trucks in Miami; K. Neal International Trucks in Washington, D.C.; Beltway Cos. in Baltimore and D.C.; and DATTCO in New England. The eStar is an all-electric vehicle and has been […]

February 4, 2011

Channel 19

Scenes from the 2010 Rush Tech Skills Rodeo

I’m in San Antonio, Texas, this morning at the site of Rush Truck Centers’ fifth annual Tech Skills Rodeo, which pits 65 (out of more than 700 entering) of the truck dealer/service center network’s best diesel technicians against each other and a set of bugged vehicles. On the heavy-duty side of the competition, 15 techs […]

December 14, 2010

Business

LogBook

A federal panel recommends an increase in the fuel tax, the FMCSA adjusts CSA cargo scoring, a lawsuit aims to block CSA 2010 disclosure, a private firm plans to offer driver scorecards to reflect CSA 2010 and many more industry news items are featured.

December 1, 2010

Business

Navistar, UAW OK contract

UAW-represented employees at Navistar ratified a new four-year labor agreement.

November 1, 2010

Business

Navistar lays off 250 workers

Approximately 250 workers at a Navistar truck assembly plant in Springfield, Ohio, received temporary lay-off notices Oct. 8.

October 12, 2010

Business

Navistar to launch medium-duty program

Company this fall will mount a medium-duty truck “boot camp” in seven key cities across the country.

September 10, 2010

Business

Navistar recognizes Grede as top supplier

Navistar named engine components manufacturer Grede Holdings as one of its 2009 Diamond Suppliers. The award is given to suppliers who “exceed performance expectations.” Grede is one of 37 suppliers to receive the award. Grede Holdings, www.citation.net

August 16, 2010

Business

U.S., California to consider SCR ‘loopholes’

The EPA and the California Air Resources Board have presented preliminary proposals aimed at alleged compliance loopholes noted by Navistar.

July 29, 2010

Business

Navistar tops in ‘fluid economy’

Navistar said its International ProStar+ outperformed competing trucks in efficiency measuring diesel and urea.

July 19, 2010

Business

Navistar launches $149,900 electric truck

Additional launches are scheduled for June in Sacramento, Calif., and this summer in Chicago for all-electric delivery vehicle.

May 26, 2010

Business

Boyd Bros. orders ProStars+ with 2010 EPA-approved engines

Boyd Bros. Transportation ordered 325 International ProStar+ tractors, heavy-duty truck maker Navistar, Inc. announced May 20. The tractors run on MaxxForce 13 engines equipped with advanced exhaust gas recirculation technology that meets 2010 emission requirements set by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. The Clanton, Ala.-based flatbed carrier was named the 2010 Best Fleet to Drive […]

May 20, 2010