Volvo Trucks North America no longer wants to talk about its much-advertised “Cost Per Mile” program since it was sued by Great Southern Truck Co., which claimed VTNA’s failure to honor the program’s financial commitments contributed to the Volvo dealer’s bankruptcy.

Volvo Trucks North America no longer wants to talk about its much-advertised “Cost Per Mile” program since it was sued by Great Southern Truck Co., which claimed VTNA’s failure to honor the program’s financial commitments contributed to the Volvo dealer’s bankruptcy.

Diesel customers got a Christmas present in the form of a fourth consecutive drop in the retail price, but it won’t last as long as the leftover turkey.

Citing a “downward trend in the economy” that has “accelerated sharply in the past few weeks,” the chief executive officer of the Union Pacific Railroad said the company will trim some 2,000 jobs from its 50,000-employee workforce in early 2001.

The new millennium picked up where the old one left off, with diesel prices heading skyward. Fuel costs reached new heights in 2000, and the impact was felt throughout the economy, especially by those who operate or build big trucks.

Shipments of truck trailers continued to mirror the decline in the truck sales market as the yearlong slump intensified during October.

Shipments of truck trailers continued to mirror the decline in the truck sales market as the yearlong slump intensified during October, sliding 37% from the same period in 1999.

Monthly sales totals for Class 8 trucks in the United States have been retreating all year — and, in the final months of the year, the retreat is turning into a rout.

Monthly sales totals for Class 8 trucks in the United States have been retreating all year — and, in the final months of the year, the retreat is turning into a rout.

The Environmental Protection Agency’s proposed standards for heavy-duty diesel engine emissions in 2007 have produced an argument that has bounced back and forth for months among engine manufacturers, the makers of antipollution devices and oil refiners.