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Latest News & Updates of Mack Trucks
November, 2007
Revved-up growth stalls Toyota image
- November
- 23
Toyota Motor Corp. seems poised to overtake General Motors Corp. as the world’s biggest automaker but lately the Japanese auto giant is finding the road to the top awfully bumpy.
A handful of top Toyota executives have made high-profile exits to rival manufacturers. Environmentalists complain that even as the company says it will sell 250,000 hybrid […]
Chrysler has three electric concept cars
- November
- 23
Chrysler LLC says it will unveil three concept electric vehicles next year that are designed to be totally electric or supplemented by diesel motors or hydrogen fuel cells.
The concepts, to be shown in January at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit, are an effort to call attention to the company’s research in futuristic […]
Tata Motors seeks patent protection for Rs 1-lakh car
- November
- 23
“It will be a light-weight vehicle with a frugal engine. In terms of fuel-efficiency, the car has been bench-marked with upper-end motorcycles,” says one of their vendors working on the small car. The vehicle weight has been lowered, underpowering the engine, improve the fuel combustion or reduce the wastage of power during transmission, to improve […]
Mack renews Share the Road sponsorship
- November
- 23
Mack Trucks again will serve as a primary sponsor of the American Trucking Associations’ Share the Road program in 2008.
Kevin Flaherty, Mack senior vice president of sales, made the announcement after receiving an award recognizing the company’s 2007 sponsorship of this highway safety initiative at the ATA’s Management Conference and Exhibition in Orlando, Fla.
Designed to […]
California Garbage Truck Smoke Costs Waste Management $1 Million
- November
- 23
Waste Management, the nation’s largest trash hauler, has settled with the California Air Resources Board for more than $1 million for failing to properly inspect its diesel truck fleet to assure state emission standards were met.
The waste company settled for air quality violations that occurred in 2004 and 2005 throughout the state.
“Trash pick-up is a […]
Big Mack attack
- November
- 23
You could have been forgiven for thinking the Ramada Pelican Waters had become the Coast’s most popular truck stop yesterday, after four Big Mack trucks were parked out the front.
But they weren’t there for a quick stopover to re-fuel and head back out on the road.
In fact, the trucks were on display as part of […]
County looking to buy one or more new Garbage Trucks
- November
- 23
The Jones County Board of Supervisors will advertise for the purchase of at least one new Garbage truck.
The board voted Monday morning, while meeting in Ellisville, to go out for bids after hearing a presentation on Mack trucks. The Mack representative offered the board a “guaranteed buyback” of trucks after two years. The 2009 Mack […]
U.S. Air Force to Display Mack Hybrid Electric Vehicle Granite Model Slated for 2007 Hybrid Truck User Forum
- November
- 23
The United States Air Force displayed Mack Trucks, Inc.’s innovative and fuel-saving hybrid technology at the Hybrid Truck User Forum (HTUF), September 19 to 21 in Seattle.
A Mack Granite® model Dump truck, built for the Air Force’s Advanced Power Technology Office (APTO) and currently stationed at Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada, will be at […]
Drivers blockade Mack for ‘refusal to repair unsafe Trucks’
- November
- 23
Fifteen Truck drivers will blockade a Mack Trucks site this morning in protest of what they say is neglect from the manufacturer in maintaining their trucks.
The drivers from concrete company Rinker will block the road and entrance to Mack Trucks at Chipping Norton in south-west Sydney from 10am.
The Transport Workers Union (TWU) says Mack has […]
Mack Trucks, UAW Extend Contracts
- November
- 23
Mack Trucks, UAW Extend Terms of Contracts for Second Time
Mack Trucks Inc. and the United Auto Workers has agreed to extend the terms of union contracts that would have expired at midnight Wednesday, a company spokesman said.
The new deadline is midnight Dec. 14, marking the second time the contracts have been extended for 2,200 workers […]
