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Variable speed fan drives standard on Macks
BorgWarner’s Cool Logic variable speed fan drives are now standard equipment on Mack Granite, Titan and Pinnacle models...
Slagle focuses VTNA for the future
ROANOKE, VA. Denny Slagle, president & CEO of North American Trucks, parent of Volvo Trucks North America (VTNA), has a clear vision for VTNA, and it’s not the fourth-place market share the company currently holds in the U.S. market...
OEMs project modest improvement in truck sales
LOUISVILLE, KY. Truck makers gathered here at the Mid America Trucking Show all believe the worst of the U.S. and global economic recession is over, with freight levels and truck sales now poised for a moderate recovery this year...
Mack shows new Econodyne, automated transmission
LOUISVILLE, KY. If conditions are right, truck sales in 2010 could rebound as much as 20%, and Mack Trucks is getting ready to compete in that recovering market with new technology and products that include an all-new Econodyne diesel engine and an automated mechanical transmission, according to Kevin Flaherty, sr. vp for the U.S. and Canada...
First Pinnacle rolls off Mack’s Macungie line
Mack Truck’s new Macungie Assembly Operation in Pennsylvania is now a fully functioning production line as the first Pinnacle tractor rolled off the line on Aug. 13...
Mack, Volvo saluted for wellness programs
Mack Trucks and Volvo Trucks North America (VTNA), both units of Sweden’s Volvo Group, have each been honored by the National Business Group on Health as one of the leading corporations with programs that promote a healthy workplace in the U.S....
Super-light trucks are coming
Engineers for years have searched for ways to reduce weight in vehicles of all types. The most success has been had in the airline and space industry, where lightweight materials are common. For example, Volvo Aero has taken advantage of these technologies in its aircraft engine components. Now, those same technologies may be opening doors for super-light trucks of the future...
Mack consolidates production
In the final step of a major reorganization begun last year, Mack Trucks says it is ready to move all truck production to its Macungie, PA, plant by November...
Mack taking 2010 orders
Mack Trucks has announced it will offer trucks with EPA 2010 certified diesel engines later this year, joining Volvo Trucks North America (VTNA) in an early introduction of its selective catalytic reduction (SCR) technology...
Video: Hybrid trucks: Value for the customer
Mack Trucks has built two diesel-electric hybrid refuse trucks for customer fleet testing. Thomas Kelly III, Mack's Sr. VP, says these test trucks should help show off the value of hybrids to refuse customers...
UAW ratifies Mack contract
Members of the United Auto Workers (UAW) union ratified a new 40-month labor agreement covering 1,700 workers at seven Mack Truck facilities in three states...
UAW, Mack make a deal
If finalized, a tentative labor agreement hammered out between the United Auto Workers (UAW) and Mack Trucks transfers responsibility for providing worker retiree health benefits from the OEM to the union...
Mack SCR garbage trucks in field testing
Republic Services, a commercial, industrial and municipal waste hauler operating in 40 states, is field testing four Mack Trucks diesel SCR-equipped, pre-production, garbage truck...
Mack delivers for Army
Mack Trucks has delivered 36 Vision Elite model tractors with 70-in. high-rise sleepers to the U.S. Army Tacom Life Cycle Management Command...
Mack Trucks taps Hollenbeck for new strategic slot
Mack Trucks Inc. has appointed Bruce P. Hollenbeck to the newly created position of vp of strategic product programs...
