Work Truck Show Opening Brings Eager Crowds
from NTEA
The Work Truck Show 2009 opened yesterday to a throng of enthusiastic attendees. Join the crowd at North America's largest work truck event that gives you the exclusive opportunity to explore displays from 490 exhibitors; be among the first to see more than 80 exciting new products; and get answers to all your questions from technical and engineering experts on the show floor.

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Ford Bolsters Market-leading Commercial Truck Lineup with Three Tough New Offerings
from PR Newswire
Ford Motor Company has an expanded presence at the National Truck Equipment Association (NTEA) show to showcase three new commercial vehicle offerings, further bolstering its market-leading product portfolio. With 40 percent market share, Ford is America's commercial truck leader. In launching Transit Connect, F-59 Super Duty(R) Chassis and a gasoline E-Series Ambulance Prep Package, Ford aims to build on this commercial truck leadership. Ford expanded its NTEA presence this year with a significantly larger display and event luncheon, reinforcing its commitment across multiple product segments of the commercial vehicle industry and to the body builders and upfitters that tailor Ford products to specific applications. It aims to demonstrate the technologies that help customers work smarter while using NTEA as a forum for listening to customers' unmet needs and to help lower their cost of ownership and further improve productivity. More

Navistar and City of Chicago Go Green Together
from Business Wire
When people think of a hybrid vehicle, they usually envision a small gas-sipping passenger car, not a 33,000 lb. medium-duty work truck. That mindset is about to change, now that the City of Chicago has added its first hybrid work truck to its fleet, the International DuraStar Hybrid. As part of this week's Green Truck Summit, held in conjunction with the 45th Annual National Truck Equipment Association (NTEA) Convention and the Work Truck Show 2009, representatives from Navistar officially presented the keys to an International DuraStar Hybrid to Howard Henneman, the City of Chicago's Commissioner of Fleet Management. More

GM's Full-size Hybrid Pickups Hit Showrooms
from The Tennessean
General Motors Corp.'s new full-size hybrid pickups are arriving at dealerships, featuring an overall 25 percent increase in fuel economy over the base V-8 gasoline-only models, and a 40 percent increase in city mileage. The new vehicles are hitting showrooms as car and truck sales sag to near historic lows and as federal officials push for more fuel-efficient vehicles as part of the plan to resurrect the fortunes of U.S. automakers, an equation that includes billions of dollars in financial assistance from taxpayers. More

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Fed Says Loan Plan to Start March 25, May Add Rentals
from Bloomberg
The Federal Reserve said its $1 trillion program to prop up the market for auto and business loans will start disbursing funds March 25 and will probably accept securities backed by vehicle-fleet and equipment leases. The Fed also lowered interest rates and so-called collateral haircuts for loans tied to asset-backed securities with guarantees by the Small Business Administration or to government- guaranteed student loans, the central bank and U.S. Treasury said in a statement in Washington. More

Toyota Talking on Japan Government Loan
from The Detroit News
Toyota's financing unit is in talks with a Japanese government-backed bank on possible lending, the automaker said, underlining the serious woes facing the car industry amid plunging global sales. Toyota Motor Corp. said no details had been decided. Kyodo News and NHK TV reported earlier in the day, without identifying sources, that Toyota's auto loan unit, Toyota Financial Services, had asked for a $2 billion government loan. More

Clean Heavy Duty Vehicle Conference & Expo to be Held March 16-18
from NTEA
Join government policy makers and regulators, medium and heavy-duty vehicle OEMs and suppliers, technology developers, fleet users and clean fuel providers at the 2009 Clean Heavy Duty Vehicle Conference & Expo - expanded for three full days. This timely national conference on the latest clean transportation technologies and fuels for medium- and heavy-duty vehicles and buses will provide a range of solutions for fuel efficiency and emission challenges. More

Ford May Resume Making Seats
from Automotive News
The UAW is trying to get Ford Motor Co. to bring seat production back in-house as a sweetener to a concessionary tentative labor agreement reached last week. Ford's Rawsonville parts plant near Ypsilanti, Mich., was mentioned for seat production in a contract summary obtained by Automotive News. More