Trucks

W. Africa's last giraffes make surprising comeback

A crisp African dawn is breaking overhead, and Zibo Mounkaila is on the back of a pickup truck bounding across a sparse landscape of rocky orange soil. The animals in Niger are known as Giraffa camelopardalis peralta, the most...

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Scientific American's Path to Sustainability: Let's Think about the Details

Scientific American presents "A Path to Sustainable Energy by 2030" in its November issue. In many ways, it sounds good. But let's think about the details: What would the end result look like? Would it really be sustainable?...

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'Clunker' customers downsized, say dealers

Tri-State car dealers say the $3 billion federal Cash for Clunkers program earlier this year drew both customers looking for rebates and those searching for nonclunker deals into their showrooms. But locally, car dealers say...

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Clunkers get junked; junkers get shredded

Published: Sun, November 8, 2009 @ 12:10 a.m. By Rick Rouan Vehicles from the federal Clunkers program are hitting the recycling bin. “I always struggle to shred a Land Rover or a Jaguar,” said Chandler, general manager at...

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Group working to keep Navistar

result in Fort Wayne losing most of the company’s engineering operations to suburban Chicago. But area economic development leaders are working along two tracks: seeing what they can do to keep the Truck Design and Technology...

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EVI Launches New Medium-Duty Electric Truck, Allies with Freightliner Custom Chassis for Electric...

Electric Vehicles International (EVI) has introduced its new medium-duty truck, the MD EVI. ( Earlier post .) EVI also has formed a strategic alliance with Freightliner Custom Chassis Corporation to build a fully electric...

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CEO says UPS might make some acquisitions

UPS may be ready to buy some other companies in the coming year, the delivery company's chief executive told Bloomberg News last week. "We're strengthening ourselves in emerging markets, the Middle East, Asia, areas where we...

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Manheim Unveils Key Enhancements to Web Site Aimed at Heavy Truck & Equipment Buyers & Sellers

ATLANTA Thanks to key enhancements to Manheims heavy truck and equipment Web pages, both buyers and sellers of these units will now have more targeted information at their fingertips to help grow their businesses.

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Layoffs have some concerned that Electric Motors Corporation moving in wrong direction

WAKARUSA — It's been 6 months since Wakarusa based Electric Motors Corporation announced plans to turn Elkhart County into an electric vehicle manufacturing center, creating up to 1,600 new jobs along the way. But, now, some in...

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Blue bins will mean 'greener' Medford Lakes

MEDFORD LAKES — Two purchases by Medford Lakes will make trash collection cheaper and cleaner, officials said. The town is getting "greener" and saving money by buying into Burlington County's paper-cart recycling program. And...

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