A subsidiary of AB Volvo in the truck department is the world renowned Mack Trucks Incorporated and it sits on top of the construction trucks market in the United States. The brand is known for producing high quality trucks which are very dependable and is centered in productivity and driver comfort. And the brand is expanding its lineup of such great trucks in the shape of the TerraPro Cabover which will be launched at the opening of the World of Concrete trade show in Las Vegas. The new truck carries with it the traits which its forerunners carry too, these being the optimum performance of the trucks and its ability to perform its intended purpose efficiently.
The truck’s design has been done with the driver’s comfort in mind. This is a characteristic in the design common to all vehicles produced by brands affiliated with the AB Volvo company. Aside from designing ergonomic and comfortable seats for the driver, the interior is spacious for more legroom and headspace and a bigger breathing room for the operator. It also boasts of a very effective climate-control system that has the capacity to further increase the comfort level for anyone on board the truck. The instrument and control panels are designed to be easily accessible for convenience thus making the performance of the truck’s task much easier. Effort is also exerted to reduce noise and vibration produced while the truck is performing its task.
The Volvo group, which controls the Mack Truck Inc., is the world’s second largest manufacturer of buses, coaches, and trucks which are employed and used the world over. The group also produces drive systems for industrial and marine applications. The group is also active in the production of aerospace components making the company a huge earner in all means of transportation from land to sea to air.
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Volvo Trucks North America and Mack Trucks are launching a new program that will eliminate freight charges for most emergency replacement parts, the companies have announced.
The program will be launched in Canada at the end of March. If a part is not available at a local Volvo or Mack dealership, but is available within the companies parts distribution centers, the part will be shipped overnight to the dealer at no cost to the customer.
Parts can also be ordered after hours and received the next day or ordered on Saturdays for Monday delivery, the companies announced. Oversized parts weighing more than 150 lbs are shipped via LTL carrier, again with no freight charges to the customer, the companies announced.
“Volvo’s goal is to have better than 90% over-the-counter parts availability at its dealers,” said Joy Johnson, director of parts support for Volvo. “If the part is not at the dealer, but is in our industry-leading PDC network, it will be shipped overnight with no freight charge for the customer.”
“Mack customers have the right to expect our dealers to have in stock the same genuine parts used to assemble their trucks,” added Chris Gossler, director of parts sales for Mack. “This program eliminates customer freight costs associated with getting an emergency part, on the off chance the part is not in stock.”
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The first year of business has been a rousing success at Dex in Floyd County’s BranwickCenter. Dex receives used heavy trucks from Volvo and Mack test centers and from Arrow Truck Sales. What were once hulking remnants of rust are fully reused, recycled, or remanufactured taking thousands of pounds out of the waste stream.
We take ‘end of life’ trucks, harvest as many parts as possible and sell them to dealers,” Isom extrapolates. “The Mack and Volvo engines are sent to the Mack remanufacturing center to be remanufactured.” What’s left, he adds, is then recycled. “Nothing is wasted, everything is used again.”
Isom was a Volvo employee for 30 years. He traveled all over the world for Volvo including assignments in China, Sweden and the United States. In 2006, he was a project manager for Dex and was then appointed manager of its Floyd operation when it opened in January 2007. The business made its first sale in February of last year.
he Dex warehouse in Floyd is the company’s only U.S. operation, though it has others in Australia and Brazil. Floyd is the only one selling used truck parts. In its first year of operation here, the firm took apart 100 trucks. It is capable of processing two trucks a day.
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A Hagerstown man was killed in an accident when the van he was driving left the northbound lanes of Interstate 81, struck an embankment, veered back on the highway and collided with a truck towing a tanker-trailer full of sugar, according to the Berkeley County Sheriff’s Department, which responded to the scene.
Thomas Carl Carter Sr. was pronounced dead at the crash scene at the 20 and a half mile marker on northbound I-81. Authorities speculate, and witnesses suggest, that Carter might have fallen asleep or experienced a medical condition that caused the 79-year-old man to lose control of the 2003 Chevy van he was driving and strike the side of a 2006 Mack truck hauling the tanker, said Lt. R. L. Gardner.
The driver of the Mack truck, Frank T. Ives, of Chesapeake City, Md., was transported to City Hospital with neck and back pain, and was later released, police said.
The accident, which occurred around 11:03 a.m., stopped northbound traffic for about two hours and triggered a second, three-vehicle collision accident that West Virginia State Police responded to, near northbound mile marker 18 and the exit for Spring Mills.
Brooke Mills, 22, of Martinsburg, was slowing down for the traffic accident, said Trooper J.D. Simms, when the white Nissan she was driving struck the rear of a Ford truck and then slammed into a Chevy Jimmy, trapping her and her boyfriend, Jason Evans, of Shepherdstown.
Emergency responders cut the doors of the mangled vehicle off and extricated the couple, Simms said.
Mills was transported to City Hospital in Martinsburg and Evans was taken to a nearby Maryland hospital, he said. Simms was uncertain of the extent of their injuries. “There were no other deaths,” he said.
Daniel Hatcher, 48, of Ranson, was identified as the driver of the Ford truck, and Lydia Lehman, 27, of Shepherdstown, was the driver of the Jimmy, which got pushed out of the northbound lanes of I-81. Both vehicles were able to drive off, Simms said.
Friday’s accident was the third fatality on I-81 in Berkeley County this week. Sheriff Randy Smith said he cannot justify any reasoning behind the recent string of vehicle crashes.
“I have no clue why people are having accidents on a nice, dry straight stretch of highway without any road obstructions,” he said. “The circumstances that exist may be purely coincidental. There is no rhyme or reason.”
Smith said he sees no structural problems with I-81.
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If you drive construction rigs, it’s time to practice up on your driving skills. Mack Trucks is sponsoring the Driving Skills Safety Challenge during the World of Concrete show in Las Vegas later this month. The event will take place from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. from January 22-24 at the Orange Lot outside the Las Vegas Convention Center. Each day of competition, there’ll be a reception for daily contestants from 3-5 p.m. in the registration tent, courtesy of Mack Truck and Allison Transmission. The competition is open to any driver at least 18 years of age with a valid CDL who completes an application form, shows proof of operator training, and is registered for the show. There are contest categories for individuals as well as two-operator teams.
Mack Trucks‘ deliveries continued their slump in November, dropping 49 percent from the same month in 2006, its parent company Volvo AB reported Thursday.
But the market forces behind the weak truck demand have changed since earlier this year, when new emissions standards caused truck deliveries to plummet. Slow housing construction and freight demand are now to blame for the weak demand, which Mack expects to continue into 2008.
Mack delivered 1,539 trucks in November, down from 3,016 in the same month last year. Mack deliveries are a direct representation of demand for its trucks. The company does not manufacture trucks on speculation, but responds to orders from dealers.
Mack’s deliveries are slumping only in North America, which accounts for 70 percent of its November deliveries. In South America and Asia, Mack sales are enjoying robust growth because of increased marketing efforts in foreign countries experiencing economic growth.
Mack products are sold in more than 45 countries, and the number of trucks sold in the international market has tripled in the past four years, Mack spokesman John Walsh said.
”The growth in our international business is attributable to a number of factors, including an intensified focus on growing this part of our business, healthier and more stable economies in many parts of the world, a weaker U.S. dollar, and, in our particular case, becoming part of the Volvo Group, which has given us access to markets and resources we simply didn’t have before,” Walsh said.
But international sales remain a small market for Mack. So that success has only softened the blow for Mack’s downturn in the North American truck market, where sales so far this year are down 59 percent compared to last year.
Mack braced for a downturn in fall of 2006 by announcing it would lay off some of its 1,040 workers at its Lower Macungie Township plant, where it makes heavy-duty trucks. The company laid off 350 employees.
Stricter emission rules that took effect in January caused U.S. truck sales, including Mack’s, to plunge. Truck buyers stocked up on trucks in 2006 before the more expensive 2007 models hit the market. The company initially expected the slump to last six months, but then the housing market went bust. Heavy-duty trucks are used in the garbage, construction and freight industries.
In addition to its Lower Macungie plant, Mack employs about 1,000 people at its Allentown headquarters and testing site.
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Shares of companies that make Heavy trucks rose Wednesday, pulled up by a strong overall market, along with new data showing an increase in truck orders.
According to data from ACT Research LLC, orders of Class 5 through heavy-duty Class 8 trucks rose 12 percent over November 2006 levels.
The November increase came after a 9 percent jump in October, which was preceded by a drop in the three previous months, according to the data included in an analyst note from Wachovia’s Andrew Casey.
Casey said the sustained strength in orders showed that truck market weakness may have bottomed, which is a relative positive for the companies in the sector, he said.
Also on Wednesday, Paccar Inc. announced a special dividend of $1 per share and a regular dividend of 18 cents per share.
The company said it would increase production at its DAF Trucks subsidiary by 5 percent in the first quarter in light of the strong Western and Central European truck market.
Here how Heavy truck stocks finished Wednesday:
Paccar rose $3.94, or 7.8 percent, to close at $54.55.
Cummins Inc. gained $4.52, or 3.9 percent, to finish at $122.
Eaton Corp. added $2.48, or 2.8 percent, to end at $91.74.
Navistar International Corp. rose $2.20, or 4.4 percent, to close at $52.20.
