Tagged: Manufacturers

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Chips Still Hindering Truck Plants

Lack of chips still hindering truck plants. Semiconductor shortages are still interfering with efforts by truck manufacturers to produce enough trucks to fulfill customer order commitments – and truck makers may not be able to meet…

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Inflation Pushing Up Supplier Prices

Inflation pushing up supplier prices with suppliers passing down cost increases. Inflationary pressures for heavy-duty equipment manufacturers and suppliers are everywhere. Feeling the pinch of inflation, equipment supplier prices are up 11% from March to…

MAC Bullet Trailer

MAC Trailer Acquires Bullet

MAC Trailer acquires Bullet Trailer. This facility now is formally MAC Bullet Manufacturing, currently located at 410 Factory Road in Sunnyside, Wash. Expanded its aluminum dump trailer product line with the purchase of Bullet Trailer.

Girard Equipment, Girard Expanding in Florida

Girard Expanding in Florida

Girard expanding in Florida, consolidating its operations into a new state-of-the-art 80,000 sq.ft. building set on a 5-acre site in Vero Beach. Girard Equipment acquired the location and had invested about $1 million on infrastructure…

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Fleets Refurbish Older Trailers

With the continuing supply chain snarl causing manufacturers to accept only limited orders for new trailers, fleets are cleaning up older parked equipment used for storage to meet their immediate needs. For six months…

Tremcar Headquarters

Tremcar Celebrates 60th Anniversary

Tank-truck and trailer manufacturer Tremcar celebrates 60th anniversary. A&L Tougas, Tremcar’s predecessor, built its first tank truck dedicated to milk transportation in 1962. The Tougas brothers, Alde and Leo Tougas, started out welding…

Meritor HQ

Cummins Acquiring Meritor

Cummins is acquiring Meritor in a deal that will give the company a broad reach in traditional power-trains and components as well as accelerating its development of battery-electric and fuel-cell-electric propulsion systems, Cummins said.

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