Wal-Mart also has been accused in separate lawsuits of discrimination against African-American truck drivers and workers with disabilities.
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Navistar ( NAV), in sharp contrast, is up more than 11% this morning after profits from its North American truck business dramatically surpassed expectations.
The lawsuit charged that Eaton had entered into long-term contracts with truck manufacturers of a sort that stifled competition in the North American truck transmissions market.
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Or maybe Ford is just grasping for reasons to justify the billions of dollars it is spending to retool three North American truck factories for small car production.
While the Obama administration dreams of Americans in Euro-style tin cans, American customers like elbow room, and this year's show marks a return to the American truck wars.
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Ford will do the same refitting job to two other North American truck plants in a multibillion-dollar gamble that America's love affair with the SUV is over and that smaller, fuel-efficient vehicles are here to stay.
But the North American truck market is expected to recover in the second half of 2007, which presumably doesn't bode well for Volvo (nasdaq: VOLV - news - people ) if its factories aren't up to speed.
The Ford Focus, Hyundai Elantra and Volkswagen Passat are the three finalists for North American Car of the Year, and the BMW X3, Honda CR-V and Land Rover Range Rover Evoque are finalists for North American Truck of the Year.
Sanluis supplies parts primarily for the North American light truck sector minivans, pickup trucks and sport utility vehicles which has grown 6.1% a year since 1980, compared with 1.7% for all automobiles.
The winners of the much-anticipated 2013 North American Car and Truck of the year were announced today in Detroit at the opening of the press days for the North American International Auto Show.
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By 2004, 1 million units of North American light-truck capacity will be added, bringing the total to 10.4 million.
Washington had hoped Fiat would give Chrysler religion on compacts, but instead it has been converted to American SUV and truck worship.
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North American heavy duty truck sales peaked in 2006 with 360, 000 units, just ahead of tighter emission standards, and plunged to 110, 000 units in 2009.
This year, after almost 20 years covering the automotive industry, I was privileged to be appointed to the jury for the North American Car and Truck of the Year awards.
Indeed, without truck sales American car makers would still be losing money.
Tilton admits that American LaFrance, a fire truck maker acquired in late 2005, is still a mess.
Yeah, it's not going to make a lot of money, but it definitely will help that image because so long they've relied on this image of like this masculine, truck-driving American, you know, person who buys, you know, buys American.
An American who thought he was detonating a truck bomb aimed at a federal courthouse in Springfield, Illinois.
Billions of federal dollars are going into new highway building, and truck routes serving the North American Free Trade Agreement are a big part.
In the convoy shooting, U.S. forces spokesman Jamie Graybeal said the Afghan driver failed to heed instructions to stop as his truck came close to the American convoy near Kabul.
Down the road in Jacksonville, Marine veteran Guy Henry Woods led out-of-state relatives on a tour of the Beirut Memorial, built to honor the 241 Marines, sailors and other American service members who died in a 1983 truck bombing that destroyed their barracks in the Lebanese capital.
Nearby Killeen was the scene of one of the most deadly shootings in American history 18 years ago when George Hennard crashed his truck into a Luby's Cafeteria and began shooting, killing 23 people and wounding 20.
Strong truck sales bode well for the profitability of the American auto companies since they dominate the pickup segment.
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Long-haired and 60 years old, he had just driven a Penske rental truck from Arizona with the trove of a Native American writer, N.
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Is this the end of an era, at least the era of the truck and the SUV, if not the era of American autos?
Those of you who remember the debate over the Kama River truck plant in the 1970's -- the American-supplied factory that produced vehicles used by the Soviet military to invade Afghanistan in 1979 -- will appreciate the strategic potential of this joint venture to enhance the productivity of a crucial Soviet industry.
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Toyota unveiled its largest-ever light truck in Detroit, and is thought to be planning several new American factories.
"We're trying to devise ways, methods, strategies to move that truck forward, because we don't want to affect the American economy, " Weeks said.
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