Navistar Inc. announced it will be moving from Warrenville, Ill., to Lisle, Ill., at the former Alcatel-Lucent East campus on Warrenville Road.
The company will invest $110 million dollars in the 1.2 million-square-foot Lisle headquarters, which will include executive management, business operations and product development. Core features of the technology center once envisioned for the Lisle [...]

The national average price of a gallon of diesel was nearly unchanged from the previous week, according to weekly figures from the U.S. Department of Energy.
The DOE’s Energy Information Administration reported Tuesday that the national average retail price was $2.931, down 7/10 of a cent from the previous week. That’s 28.4 cents per gallon — [...]

Volvo’s EPD (Environmental Product Declaration) was launched back in 2001 in connection with the launch of the company’s new FH and FM trucks. The EPD service has been steadily developed ever since. Recently, lifecycle analysis of the FE and FL models was also concluded so now there is an environmental product declaration for the full [...]

Oil and coal, the two fossil fuels that today power most of the planet’s industries, heat homes and get vehicles on the move, will dry up one day, although that day may be some time off yet. What is a more acute problem, however, is the emission of carbon dioxide, nitrogen, sulphur and particles from [...]

The truck industry is one example in the industrial sector that is becoming increasingly customer-driven, at least according to Volvo Trucks. The lifecycle of a truck model is admittedly still very long, about 10 to 20 years, but customer adaptations and individual variations are becoming increasingly common.
“We can see that a more segmented market is [...]

KIRKLAND, Wash. – Kenworth Truck Company featured a colorful, Kenworth vinyl wrap prototype on its new Kenworth T700 with a 2010 PACCAR MX engine at the recent Great American Trucking Show in Dallas.
Developed in conjunction with Sirlin Enterprises, the prototype wrap was shown to customers visiting the Kenworth booth during the show.

“We wanted to show [...]

KIRKLAND, Wash. – Kenworth Truck Company offers a special website section for the new Kenworth T700, the latest evolution of Kenworth’s industry-leading aerodynamic product line.
The highly efficient Kenworth T700 targets over the road and team driver operations with its excellent driver comfort features. The T700’s spacious, wide cab has nearly 30 inches between the driver [...]

The Board of Australia’s peak trucking industry body, the Australian Trucking Association, is meeting in Alice Springs today to get a different view of the industry and help celebrate the 15th anniversary of the Australian Road Transport Hall of Fame.
The Board will use the opportunity to get the views of a wide cross-section of the [...]

Australia — The Australian Trucking Association is calling on all trucking operators to use next week’s National Rail Safety Week to make sure their drivers are reminded of the importance of safety at level crossings.
ATA Chief Executive, Stuart St Clair, said operators should use National Rail Safety Week, which runs from 23 – 29 August, [...]

Australia — The peak trucking industry bodies for Australia and New South Wales, the Australian Trucking Association (ATA) and ATA NSW, have welcomed the announcement by Labor that, if re-elected, they would begin planning for the M5 East widening and F3 to M2 upgrade.
The two projects would ease the congestion on some of Sydney’s busiest [...]