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Calling on Construction Established and new players alike take aim at the vocational truck market.  By Mike Anderson While there may be a new brand in the heavy-duty construction truck business, established players are intent on keeping their strong positions in the vocational market, currently about one-third of all Class 8 trucks made. All […]
November 1, 2011
Business
Road Report: Cat’s CT660 vocational truck
On Sept. 9, Caterpillar’s internal verification process was completed, and the company gave the green light to begin CT660 vocational truck production for the North American market. At a high-level view,George Taylor, director of Caterpillar’s Global On-Highway Truck Group, says the CT660 is Cat’s most intensely researched product launch ever, with a lot of time […]
September 28, 2011
Business
CONEXPO/CONAGG 2011
CONEXPO-CON/AGG What it means to you and the future of the industry Staff Reports With a backdrop of 20-percent construction unemployment and two years of abysmal machine sales, the tri-annual heavy equipment trade show CONEXPO-CON/AGG opened on March 22nd, in Las Vegas – ground zero in the housing bust and a town still reeling from […]
May 4, 2011
Business
Machine Matters
Heavy trucks, Heavy drama 2010 may have been the Year of the Engine in trucks, but 2011 welcomes an old engine supplier into the full truck game By Mike Anderson Yellow iron customers who also buy heavy-duty trucks are about to enter a new era of choice, opportunity and perhaps conflict. The dominant brand of […]
November 9, 2010
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