Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. said it will announce a start date for U.S. sales of its diesel-powered pickup trucks and sport utility vehicles by early April, Bloomberg News reported.
The vehicles are currently undergoing testing in the U.S., according to Pawan Goenka, president of India-based company’s automotive division. Mahindra had planned to begin U.S. sales in the first quarter of this year, Bloomberg said.
WASHINGTON, D.C. - On behalf of its motor vehicle parts manufacturer members, the Motor & Equipment Manufacturer Association (MEMA), with input from its Brand Protection Council, submitted comments on March 24 recommending that more resources be devoted toward the enforcement of anti-counterfeiting regulation and intellectual property rights violations to Victoria A. Espinel, the first-ever U.S. Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator, Office of Management and Budget.
Heavy Duty Trucking Magazine honored the best new products of 2009 last week at the Mid-America Trucking Show in Louisville, Ky., presenting the companies with HDT's Top 20 Products award.
Heavy Duty Trucking's editors selected 50 nominees from among the new product announcements published by Heavy Duty Trucking in print and online. Darry Stuart, president of DWS Fleet Services, along with two fleet manager judges from the American Trucking Associations' Technology and Maintenance Council, further refined the list of nominees. Winning products were judged on innovation and their ability to make fleets safer, more efficient and more profitable.
Judging by the sights and sounds – chief among them being the positive words spoken by top executives of several major truck OEMs – here at the Mid-America Trucking Show in Louisville, trucking suppliers are straining at the bit for the economy to let them return to winning form.
Amidst all the news conferences and "booth visits,” fellow FleetOwner editor Wendy Leavitt and I had the chance to talk for a few– too few– minutes with Jim Hebe, sr. vp of North American sales operations for Navistar.
Navistar’s Jim Hebe
We started off by getting his outlook on Class 8 truck sales (U.S. and Canada). He said the year would end up “5 percent plus or minus higher than 2009”, which he translated to mean a finish somewhere between 90,000 and 110,000 units.
New orders for manufactured durable goods were up 0.5 percent in February, the third straight boost and a positive sign for the trucking industry. This follows a 3.9 percent gain in January, American Trucking Associations' Chief Economist Bob Costello pointed out in his Weekly Economic Recap.