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1st ever backflip in Son-uva Digger by Ryan Anderson, son of Grave Digger driver Dennis Anderson. Monster Jam 2011 in Las Vegas, NV.

Alphabet trucks by Eric Tabuchi.

The Gothenburg-based truck maker posted a third consecutive quarterly loss on Tuesday, far worse than analysts’ forecast.

Swedish truck and bus manufacturing giant Scania will open a new assembly plant in Dubai later this month.

Texas billionaire, energy activist and entrepreneur T. Boone Pickens will give the keynote address at The Work Truck Show(R) 2009 Green Truck Summit on Tuesday, March 3, 2009.

Huddersfield has an energy-from-waste incinerator (combined with a recycling center) that produces about 10 megawatts.

Caterpillar is cutting jobs, shrinking work weeks and lowering its outlook in light of the dramatically slower pace of activity it sees throughout the globe.

In the next few months, United Parcel Service (UPS) will begin testing an automotive breakthrough that comes straight from the Environmental Protection Agency. UPS will launch two prototype delivery trucks whose ordinary-looking brown exteriors mask an exotic assembly of pumps, tanks, and high-pressure hydraulic fluids.

Navistar International Corp. disclosed Wednesday that it intends to restate financial results for the first nine months of the fiscal year ended October 30, shifting profits that had previously been expected in the fourth quarter back to earlier in the year.

Ryder System Inc. announced the launch of its RydeGreen(SM) Hybrid straight truck line, now available for order by Ryder lease customers.

December 20, 2008. Sport Truck's list of 101 paint and body tips.

December 14, 2008. Avion trailer photos and information.

December 11, 2008. Tobias Jones bought a warehouse on the south side for $1 and turned it into Jones' Big Ass Truck Rental & Storage. See him here...

December 11, 2008. Four large hybrid trucks based on Volvo's heavy-duty FE model will be delivered to refuse company Veolia Propreté for use in London and Paris next year.

November 2, 2008. Azure Dynamics Corporation has signed Sales & Service agreements with eight additional Ford dealerships to represent Azure’s Balance Hybrid Electric commercial truck. This brings the total number of dealerships to fourteen since the enrollment program began in June.

November 1, 2008. Volvo Construction Equipment's latest results show sales growth has decelerated more rapidly than expected during the third quarter of 2008.

October 14, 2008. Daimler Trucks North America (DTNA) has unveiled a comprehensive plan designed to adjust and strengthen company operations. As part of the plan Daimler's Sterling Trucks brand will be discontinued effective in March 2009.

September 26, 2008. Caterpillar's come out with a new line of electric-drive mining trucks called the AC Series, and some diesels that belch less pollution than the other ginormous vehicles the company builds. Depending upon your perspective, this is either the most half-hearted greenwashing attempt since Emirates ditched paper products but kept onboard showers, or the most amazing engineering feat since the Manhattan Project.

August 22, 2008. A great collection of old classic trucks.

August 21, 2008. General Motors Corp.'s bid to raise cash and streamline its operations took a hit Wednesday after the automaker announced an agreement had fallen through to sell its Flint-based medium-duty truck business to an Illinois truck maker.

August 15, 2008. The number of highway fatalities in crashes involving large trucks totaled 4,808 in 2007 -- a 4.4 percent drop from 2006 and the lowest number since 1992, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration reported.

August 12, 2008. The U.S. and Sweden announced the two countries will provide the Volvo Group $18 million for the development of hybrid driveline technology.

August 9, 2008. Almost 400 of the nation's top truck drivers are gearing up for the 2008 National Truck Driving Championships.

August 9, 2008. Carrier Transicold's hybrid Vector 1800MT trailer refrigeration system can now reduce energy costs by more than 60 percent during loading and unloading operations, based on current diesel and electricity prices, the company says.

August 7, 2008. Navistar, Inc. and American LaFrance LLC today announced plans to launch a joint venture that will combine the strengths and resources of both companies to manufacture and distribute low cab-over engine (LCOE) vocational trucks for domestic and global markets.

Trucking history.