TMC MANUAL ON CD

TMC's famous Recommended Practices Manual -- the 'red book' -- is now available on CD-ROM

BREAKING NEWS: Post pre-buy production cuts begin in Canada

ST. THOMAS, Ont. -- About a quarter of the workforce at Sterling Truck's St. Thomas, Ont. assembly plant will likely be laid off between now and next spring.

APU FINANCING

Thermo King and GE Capital offer simple APU financing for owner-operators

DRIVEMASTER REPAIR KITS

Pared-down DriveMaster fan-drive repair kits, new from Horton.

Hendrickson buys Dana trailer axle biz; Canadian assets included in sale

TOLEDO, Ohio -- Dana Corp. says it will sell its trailer axle and suspension manufacturing business to Hendrickson USA, L.L.C., a subsidiary of the Boler Company.

ON-LINE ROUTING, MAPPING

ALK's eMILER.com update offers on-line routing, mileage and mapping with PC*Miler 20

LEGACY CLASS 379

Last chance for a classic long-nose Pete.

TOOLBOX DIAGNOSTIC SOFTWARE

Meritor WABCO releases latest version of Toolbox with advanced PC diagnostics.

PACCAR ENGINES COMING

Ratings are here for the new Paccar-branded 2007 engines that we'll see in Kenworth and Peterbilt medium-duty trucks next year.

PETERBILT’S 220 CABOVER

Peterbilt's coming medium-duty cabover is based on Europe's 2002 Truck of the Year, the DAF LF.

Raydan offers new single axle suspension system in Canada

EDMONTON -- Canadian suspension supplier Raydan Manufacturing has inked a deal to be the exclusive distributor of the Link UltraRide chassis suspensions product line in the Canadian marketplace.

Canadian hybrid developer inks marketing deal for under-hood power systems

TORONTO -- Hybrid powertrain maker Azure Dynamics of Toronto has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Kidron division of VT Specialized Vehicles Corp. for the branding, marketing and sale of Azure's Under-the-Hood system throughout the North American refrigerated truck body market.

MAN looks to buy Swedish rival

FRANKFURT -- Europe's third largest truckmaker MAN Nutzfahrzeuge is offering a cash bid of a reported 9.5 billion euros for Swedish commercial vehicle manufacturer Scania, according to the Financial Times.

Cat becomes first foreign remanufacturing company in China

PEORIA, Ill. -- Heavy duty engine and construction equipment manufacturer Caterpillar is aggressively pursuing the Chinese market, which the company estimates could become as big as $10 billion a year.

Scania rejects takeover bid by rival

STOCKHOLM, Sweden -- Scania AB shareholders snubbed a $12.2 billion takeover offer from Germany's MAN AG.