Navistar Inc. said Tuesday it will remain the exclusive provider of Class 8 tractors for truckload carrier Heartland Express.
The agreement calls for the delivery of International ProStar+ tractors with Environmental Protection Agency EPA 2010 MaxxForce 13 engines, Navistar said in a statement.
A Navistar spokesman declined to say how many trucks were involved in the agreement, though the issue could be addressed in a conference call Wednesday following release of its fiscal second-quarter earnings statement.
“Receiving another significant order from a major customer like Heartland Express continues to demonstrate the confidence of the marketplace in the performance and fuel economy of our 2010 MaxxForce Advanced EGR engines,” Jim Hebe, Navistar’s senior vice president for North American sales operations, said in a statement.
EGR is the company’s advanced exhaust gas recirculation technology. Navistar is the only major diesel engine maker offering EGR instead of the selective catalytic reduction, or SCR, technology being offered by its competitors to meet new EPA new standards on reducing nitrogen oxide emissions.
Last month, Navistar signed a long-term agreement to supply J.B. Hunt Transport Services with International brand trucks through 2014. That pact calls for delivery of more than 5,000 trucks.
Heartland Express is ranked No. 43 and on the Transport Topics 100 listing of U.S. and Canadian for-hire carriers, while J.B. Hunt is No. 8.
