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Komatsu Announces Plans for New Headquarters in Milwaukee’s Harbor District

Komatsu Mining Corp. (formerly Joy Global Inc.)

The state-of-the-art campus will include a purpose-built office, manufacturing and training facilities, museum, global conference center and riverwalk.

An initial rendering for Komatsu's planned South Harbor Campus.

Volvo Trucks Introduce All-Electric Trucks in North America

Volvo Group Global

Volvo Trucks will introduce all-electric truck demonstrators in California next year, and commercialize them in North America in 2020.

Volvo Trucksemotor

ACT Research Reports China’s CV Truck Market Softening, Bus Markets Flat

Americas Commercial Transportation Research Co. LLC/ACT Research

ACT's latest China Commercial Vehicle Outlook shows structural changes within China’s CV market are expected to exert downward pressure through 2022.

FTR’s July Shippers Conditions Index Remains in Moderately Negative Territory

FTR Transportation Intelligence

FTR forecasts the index to moderate from this point forward until reaching the “least unfavorable” level on this cycle around mid-2019.

Ftr July Shippers Conditions Index

JCB Wins More U.S. Army Orders for High Mobility Engineer Excavators

JCB has received a contract extension valued at nearly $73 million to manufacture High Mobility Engineer Excavators (HMEEs) for the United States Army.

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Renault Trucks' Optifuel Lab 3 Aims to Reduce Fuel Consumption by 13%

Optifuel Lab 3 combines technologies relating to aerodynamics, rolling resistance, driver assistance, energy management and the powertrain to reduce fuel consumption in a tractor-trailer combination.

Renault Trucks Optifuel Lab 3 03

Driverless Tractor Equipped with BKT AGRIMAX Tires

Escort's Automated Concept Tractor is fitted exclusively with BKT AGRIMAX tires.

Bkt Escorts Automated Concept Tractor 1

Advanced Ditch Witch Fluid Management Systems Increase HDD Productivity

The updated family of Ditch Witch fluid management systems offers improved drilling fluid flow and increased durability on small- to mid-sized jobs.

EU Commercial Vehicle Registrations Rise 4.8% in First 8 Months of 2018

European Automobile Manufacturers Association (ACEA)

ACEA reports commercial vehicle registrations rose 2.3% in July and 7.3% in August.

Acea

Stoneridge Presents Technologies to Move Trucking Industry Forward at IAA 2018

Stoneridge Inc.

Stoneridge is exhibiting an Innovation Truck equipped with a range of its technology solutions, as well as its MirrorEye system and Fully Configurable Dashboard.

Continental Presents Volvo FH as Demo Truck at IAA Commercial Vehicles

The truck features tires, sensors, air springs and hoses from Continental, demonstrating the company's ability to be a single source supplier for several types of components.

Volvo Conti Mjoelner

Automated Systems

WABCO Joins ENSEMBLE Consortium for Multi-Brand Platooning

ZF Commercial Vehicle Solutions (CVS)

WABCO will support the ENSEMBLE consortium’s development and testing by delivering platooning algorithm and connectivity enhancements for its safety and driver assistance systems.

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