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Chrysler to get Fiat commercial vans
The newly reborn Chrysler Group LLC is planning to take a big swing at the lighter end of the U.S. commercial truck market within the next several years— adding two new European commercial van models and eliminating the Dodge Dakota light pickup, while looking to increase its annual sales of commercial trucks some 50% by 2014...
Trucks wait for holiday freight
In trucking’s not-so-distant past, the third and fourth quarters of the year represented a “peak season” of sorts for freight volumes as retailers stocked their shelves ahead of the Christmas holiday. Yet that healthy annual bump in shipments has largely disappeared, due in part to changing consumer buying habits and, of course, the economic downturn...
Truck dealer: Time to smooth out the foundation
Just as truck fleets have been sorely tested by the upheaval in the economy, so have new and used truck dealers. Brian Chapman, gm of Las Vegas Freightliner-Sterling-Western Star, for one will tell you that 2009 has been one of the worst years he’s ever experienced as a truck dealer...
Western Star reviving the brand
Many might think Michael Jackson, newly installed general manager of Western Star Trucks Inc., has the most unenviable of jobs: reviving a truck brand some have given up for dead. ...
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