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The latest heavy duty engine sales figures demonstrate Caterpillar’s continuing fall in market share among US truck buyers. As Cat fell from 20% to 12% in the first six months of 2008, Cummins rose to 40% from 32% share of the top end of the heavy duty market.

The Intelligent Access Program (IAP) is ‘unmatched’ as a suitable platform for delivering regulatory traffic telematics applications according to Bernhard Oehry, an international expert on traffic telematics.

The, normally low profile, truck operators of Japan have launched a series of protests demanding  government help in the face of ever increasing fuel costs.

When announcing their result for the past tax year Toll Holdings revealed full year after tax earnings of $258 million in relation to continuing businesses. The numbers do not include $952 million in losses written off when releasing Virgin Blue shares or gains from selling off rail and ferry businesses in New Zealand.

Long time US truck market commentator Oliver Dixon is casting doubt on the long term future of Cummins as a supplier of heavy duty truck engines, saying the ISX is likely to disappear form the company’s offering in the next few years.

Carting bitumen for Boral Asphalt, Brisbane-based Speedie Contractors uses Hamelex White live floor asphalt trailers to get the job done. And as an added bonus, the work gets done with huge productivity gains.

For the new F Series meium duty range, Isuzu have expanded the availability of the brand’s proprietary four-bag air suspension system to five models, the FRD 500, FSD 700, FSD 700-S, FSD 850 and FSD 850-S.

On Saturday 11th October 2008, Lights on the Hill Trucking Memorial will be opening a plaque to remember the Emergency Services that are at the scene of road accidents.

At the Sydney Truck Show Isuzu launched its Breathe Easy campaign to emphasise the  environmental benefits of the New Generation Isuzu truck range to prospective truck buyers and other road users.

Mack are to quit their long-time headquarters in Allentown, Pennsylvania to move their offices in with Volvo at their Group HQ at Greensboro, North Carolina.