Products

International’s Canadian dealers offer battery-saving device

TORONTO -- Smart Energy Solutions, inventor and manufacturer of the Battery Brain vehicle aftermarket device, says it will market its new product with International Truck and Engine Corp. Canada.

TRAILER SUSPENSION

Ridewell introduces new RSS-232T lightweight trailer suspension.

LED BACKUP LAMPS

Signal-Stat LED backup lamps from Truck-Lite

RUGGEDIZED LAPTOPS

Three new Toughbook notebook computers from Panasonic.

COOLANT EXTENDER

Penray introduces heavy-duty extended-life coolant extender.

CONVEX MIRROR

Hadley mirror now includes patented turn indicator.

UPDATED ASE MANUALS

New medium/heavy-duty truck series manuals from Thomson Delmar.

PAYSTAR SOUND INSULATION

International offers new quiet-cab package on PayStar Series

TIRE INFLATION SYSTEM

Updated technical guide for Meritor Tire Inflation Systems by PSI.

NIAGARA TRAILER REEFER

Carrier's single-temperature trailer refrigeration unit

Pre-buy just ending: Bear Stearns

NEW YORK -- There won't likely be many truck buyers on dealer lots in early part of 2007, as the so-called pre-buy of heavy equipment is only now winding down, says the transportation market division of economic analysts Bear Stearns.

Double O-Seven: The sky won’t fall after Jan ’07. It’ll just be cleaner

TORONTO -- After a year of speculation that North American heavy-duty truck sales would completely dive after Jan. 1, 2007, the downturn might not slump too far after all -- at least that's what some truck makers and dealers are whispering these days.

Smooth transition to cleaner ULSD in Canada

OTTAWA -- "D" Day for official ULSD implementation in Canada came and went without anyone hardly noticing.

Volvo unveils world’s ‘safest’ truck at ITS show

LONDON, England -- Volvo's European Integrated Safety Truck took center stage at the Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) World Congress in London this week.

NEW OILS FOR NEW ENGINES

The 2007 engines have their own lubrication needs.