If paying $4 a gallon at the pump doesn’t sour you on driving a full-sized sport utility vehicle, now is the time to buy one.
Dealers are offering tempting incentives on trucks and full-sized SUVs, and used models are on sale at clearance pricing. That’s primarily because many motorists are abandoning the gas guzzlers for compact […]

It’s probably an indication of how bad things are in the auto industry when General Motors can remain nonchalant about a three-week strike at the main axle and drive-shaft manufacturer for its trucks, American Axle. Although the strike has shut down all or part of 29 plants employing more than 42,000 workers, GM maintains it […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]