Navistar launches value parts brand

WARRENVILLE, Ill. -- Truck and engine maker Navistar International has an answer for truck owners struggling with the deepening recession: a lower-priced private label brand for truck parts that wear out quickly.

Ice road truckers feel the economic freeze

YELLOWKNIFE -- The winter road in Canada's north that received worldwide attention as part of the U.S.-based History Channel's hit show Ice Road Truckers is seeing a little less action these days.

Canada plants spared from 50,000 in automakers’ jobs cuts

DETROIT -- Embattled U.S. automaker GM is slashing its global workforce by 47,000 jobs. Chrysler reportedly is axing another 3,000 jobs.

Truckers endorse BC budget; includes tax, clean truck incentives

LANGLEY, B.C. -- Only "modest" deficits projected for B.C. over the next couple of years "are no small accomplishment," in light of the growing economic recession affecting much of North America, says the president of the BC Trucking Association.

Manufacturing jobs plummet last four years

OTTAWA -- Canada lost nearly 322,000 manufacturing jobs from 2004 to 2008, with more than one in seven manufacturing jobs disappearing over the period, reports Stats Canada.

Transportation a ‘team sport’ in a ‘flat’ world: Expert

DENVER, Col. -- Despite the current global economic slump, the future of worldwide intermodal transportation will be strong and vibrant, said Peter Keller,

ArvinMeritor to close Ontario brake plant

TILBURY, Ont. -- The trickle effect on a shrinking southern Ontario automotive sector has caught up to ArvinMeritor as well.

Freight outlook at 25-year low: Analyst

NASHVILLE, Ind. -- North America's freight market is looking to be in as bad as shape as it was during the critical 1982 recession, says industry forecaster FTR Associates

Contrans, Mullen surf above rough waters

WOODSTOCK, Ont. -- Two of Canada's largest trucking operations managed to increase revenue during 2008, despite the troubled economy.

Shaw Tracking and customers form industry alliance

MISSISSAUGA, Ont. -- Shaw Tracking, a leader in mobile communications for the Canadian transportation industry, is partnering with a network of "Canadian-based ground transportation carriers of varying size and geographic scope."

Daimler cuts ribbon at new Mexican plant

SALTILLO, Mexico -- Daimler Trucks North America opened a new manufacturing plant in Saltillo, Coahuila, in northern Mexico.

Tonnage boost not sign of things to come: ATA

ARLINGTON, Va.-- A 3-percent month-over-month increase in the American Trucking Associations' advanced seasonally adjusted For-Hire Truck Tonnage Index in January did little to erase the revised 7.8 percent contraction in December 2008.

Feb heavy truck orders lowest in six years

NASHVILLE -- North American class 8 total net orders for all major OEMs fell to 6,167 units in February, the lowest order rate in over six years, according to preliminary figures from transportation forecasting and analysis firm FTR Associates.

Meritor joint venture to close Ontario facility

MILTON, Ont., -- Meritor Suspension Systems Company -- a joint venture between ArvinMeritor and Mitsubishi Steel Manufacturing -- will close its coil spring operations plant in Milton.

Hybrid truck market faces challenges, but growing

OYSTER BAY, N.Y. -- Despite growing interest in hybrid vehicles, manufacturers have been slow to integrate hybrid technologies into commercial trucks and buses, a study has found.