Truck Makers Late to Deliver 2007 Test Models to Fleets

ost truck manufacturers will not have trucks with 2007-model engines in them for fleets to test until late this year or early 2006, Transport Topics has learned.

All of the manufacturers had expected to have trucks with the new engines and diesel particulate filters — which the U.S. government mandated in order to reduce emissions — by mid 2005, but production issues have slowed them down.

Truck makers said during the past 18 months they would have units for fleets to test by now, but Peterbilt, a subsidiary of Paccar Inc., was the only truck builder to tell TT last week it had already placed trucks at fleets.

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