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The legislation proposed included an increase a potential doubling of the use tax from its current rate of 3 percent of a vehicle's retail value to 6 percent.
Read More →WASHINGTON – The American Trucking Associations' (ATA) For-Hire Truck Tonnage Index fell 0.1-percent in June, marking its third consecutive month-to-month drop.
Read More →The companies recently partnered to bring Kenworth's first medium-duty hybrid-electric truck with hopes of enhancing fuel economy by 30 percent.
Read More →THOUSAND OAKS, CA – The mid-size van segment continues to lose market share while at the same time losing several models. In June, the mid-size van market share was just 4.4 percent of the new-vehicle retail industry, slightly more than one-half of its share in 1995.
Read More →ASSOCIATED PRESS – Truck drivers have one of the most dangerous jobs in America, accounting for nearly 15 percent of U.S. work-related deaths.
Read More →SAN FRANCISCO – Fans who tuned into the Major League Baseball All-Star Game watched a broadcast powered by biodiesel. FOX Sports used B-20, a blend of 20 percent biodiesel and 80 percent diesel, in all of its generators, satellite trucks, and other diesel equipment at its television compound in San Francisco.
Read More →SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA — Kumho Tire U.S.A. Inc. will raise its passenger and light truck tire prices up to seven percent, depending on tire model, on Aug. 1.
Read More →DETROIT, MI – General Motors said it will introduce a new, state-of-the-art 4.5L V-8 Duramax turbodiesel that improves engine fuel efficiency by 25 percent, reduces CO2 emissions by 13 percent, and cuts particulates and NOx emissions by at least 90 percent for North American light-duty trucks and the HUMMER H2 built after 2009.
Read More →DETROIT– General Motors Corp. said it will introduce a new, state-of-the-art 4.5L V-8 Duramax turbodiesel that improves engine fuel efficiency by 25 percent.
Read More →All diesel fuel sold in Portland, Ore., must now contain at least 5 percent biodiesel.
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