Ashok Leyland Ltd, India’s second-biggest bus and truck maker, said on Monday vehicle sales in March rose 27 percent to 10,698 units from 8,437 units a year earlier.
Ashok Leyland, which has ventures with Japan’s Nissan Motor Co for trucks, engines and technology, said domestic sales rose 20 percent to 9,542 units from 7,929 units.
Exports rose […]

Canadian sales of cars and light trucks dipped in March as a sharp drop at General Motors more than offset increases by import brands, according to data compiled by DesRosiers Automotive consultants Tuesday.
Canadian light vehicle sales totalled 150,023 in March compared with 150,748 a year ago, a drop of half a percentage point. The slight […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

The predictions on doubling of heavy truck production in Russia in 2007 tuned out to be mostly correct. Still, the dynamic growth of sales failed to satisfy the demand - customers had to wait for order execution for months.
The market leaders are now trying to keep and strengthen their positions by expanding Russian production. The […]

Volkswagen AG, the largest investor in German truckmaker MAN AG, is discussing whether to power its heavy trucks built in Brazil with engines made by MAN, Germany’s Handelsblatt newspaper reported, citing company sources.
A spokesman for MAN declined to comment on the article, to be published in the business daily’s Friday edition, while a spokesman for […]

Vehicles to begin helping fill potholes in two to three weeks
Each truck will cost the city $105,000. Funds for the new units were allocated in the 2007 budget, Bevens said.
Later this year, another patch machine will be purchased, this one from the 2008 budget.
At present, Bevens said, the city has five patch units that are […]