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BREAKING NEWS: Steelworkers strike at 16 NA Goodyear plants

August 1, 2014

AKRON, Ohio -- About 14,000 Goodyear workers walked off the job today, three days after their union warned the company its members would go on strike if contract demands weren't met.

ArvinMeritor seeks injunction against Eaton in transmission battle

August 1, 2014

TROY, Mich. -- The back-and-forth legal tussle between ArvinMeritor and Eaton over automated mechanical transmissions has escalated to a higher level

International’s Canadian dealers offer battery-saving device

August 1, 2014

TORONTO -- Smart Energy Solutions, inventor and manufacturer of the Battery Brain vehicle aftermarket device, says it will market its new product with International Truck and Engine Corp. Canada.

TRAILER SUSPENSION

August 1, 2014

Ridewell introduces new RSS-232T lightweight trailer suspension.

LED BACKUP LAMPS

August 1, 2014

Signal-Stat LED backup lamps from Truck-Lite

RUGGEDIZED LAPTOPS

August 1, 2014

Three new Toughbook notebook computers from Panasonic.

COOLANT EXTENDER

August 1, 2014

Penray introduces heavy-duty extended-life coolant extender.

CONVEX MIRROR

August 1, 2014

Hadley mirror now includes patented turn indicator.

UPDATED ASE MANUALS

August 1, 2014

New medium/heavy-duty truck series manuals from Thomson Delmar.

PAYSTAR SOUND INSULATION

August 1, 2014

International offers new quiet-cab package on PayStar Series

TIRE INFLATION SYSTEM

August 1, 2014

Updated technical guide for Meritor Tire Inflation Systems by PSI.

NIAGARA TRAILER REEFER

August 1, 2014

Carrier's single-temperature trailer refrigeration unit

Pre-buy just ending: Bear Stearns

August 1, 2014

NEW YORK -- There won't likely be many truck buyers on dealer lots in early part of 2007, as the so-called pre-buy of heavy equipment is only now winding down, says the transportation market division of economic analysts Bear Stearns.

Double O-Seven: The sky won’t fall after Jan ’07. It’ll just be cleaner

August 1, 2014

TORONTO -- After a year of speculation that North American heavy-duty truck sales would completely dive after Jan. 1, 2007, the downturn might not slump too far after all -- at least that's what some truck makers and dealers are whispering these days.

Smooth transition to cleaner ULSD in Canada

August 1, 2014

OTTAWA -- "D" Day for official ULSD implementation in Canada came and went without anyone hardly noticing.