PACCAR Trucks Melbourne has achieved the highest recognition possible for DAF truck dealers in Australia by winning the 2007 DAF Dealer of the Year Award.
Winning the award is testament to its focus on growing DAF’s presence in the Melbourne market.
Andrew Kneebone, General Manager, Retail Operations for PACCAR Trucks Melbourne, says he is thrilled to win […]

AB Volvo’s subsidiary Mack is launching a new prestige truck, Titan by Mack(TM). The model is developed specifically for heavy haulage and construction work and is equipped with the new 16-liter MACK(R) MP10 engine.
The launch of the Titan by Mack will be in conjunction with the CONEXPO-CON/AGG(R) 2008
Exposition in Las Vegas being held March 11-15, […]

It was a wild spectacle like no other in downtown Detroit, Mich., of all places.
Among a specially imported herd of 120 long horn cattle was a trio of 2009 Dodge Ram pickups, which created their own stampede of photographers directly outside Cobo Hall in January, the scene of the 2008 North American International Auto Show.
It […]

Tata Motors Ltd. (TTM), India’s biggest automaker by sales, has agreed to acquire Ford Motor Co.’s (F) Jaguar and Land Rover luxury car brands, an executive at Tata Group said Wednesday.
Details of the deal will be announced later during the day, the executive, who asked not to be identified, told Dow Jones Newswires. He declined […]

New heavy-duty truck sales in February were up slightly from the month before but, by just topping the 10,000 units mark, the total rests mired in the shallows of the industry sales tide that rolled out last June.
According to figures provided to the Trucker by Ward’s Automotive, Class 8 sales in February totaled 10,229 trucks […]

In a rare move for Toyota, the auto company will be slowing production of the Tundra pickup and the Sequoia SUV due to lagging sales. Last year, Toyota sold 196,555 Tundra’s, which was just a bit shy of their stated goal of 200,000. Still, it was enough to make the Tundra the fourth-best-selling truck in […]

A 13-year-old boy was riding his bike in downtown Morganton Sunday afternoon when he was hit and killed by a Dump truck.
Our newspaper partner the Morganton Herald reports that Devante O’Shea Goodman was crossing Green Street around 3:30 p.m. when a dump truck hit him.
Goodman was pronounced dead at the scene.
The driver of the dump […]

A senator wants Congress’ investigative arm to determine whether the Transportation Department has broken the law by spending federal money on a program allowing Mexican trucks on U.S. roads.
Sen. Byron Dorgan, D-N.D., called for the investigation by the Government Accountability Office a few hours after Transportation Secretary Mary Peters warned of economic losses if Mexican […]