Cummins also cited a drain in North American demand for heavy duty trucks and power generators.
Heavy duty trucks are generally defined as those with a gross vehicle weight of 15 tons or more.
By comparison, approximately 200, 000 to 400, 000 heavy duty trucks are sold in the United States every year, depending upon economic conditions.
During the first four months of 2010, 383, 000 heavy duty trucks were sold, and volume should top 1 million units by year end.
There have been ideas about increasing energy-efficiency standards in buildings much as Carol has worked tirelessly to do with cars, light trucks and heavy duty trucks for the very first time.
While GM and Toyota expect sales to be relatively flat this year, at 17 million units (including medium and heavy duty trucks), Ghosn is worried that economic headwinds will lead to a substantial slowdown.
As a result of these economics, Waste Management recently announced it plans to have 80% of its new trucks run on compressed natural gas (CNG is used primarily in buses, vans and cars, while LNG is used in heavy duty trucks).
Industry analysts predict that sales of heavy duty trucks will increase by 14 percent this year, but year-to-date sales of 58, 846 Class 8 trucks, the largest size category, are still significantly below the 162, 545 sold in the first seven months of record-setting 2006.
Although not as sexy or glamorous as passenger cars, the numbers for heavy-duty trucks are no less impressive.
That means a lot more heavy-duty trucks, with 11-liter and 13-liter engines.
The procession is set to begin Monday, she said, with heavy-duty trucks hauling the first two modular pods of steel, black locust and tile.
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Unlike their passenger car cousins that receive all of the media attention, however, heavy-duty trucks are the quiet, seldom discussed, workhorses in any economy.
Of this total, heavy-duty trucks accounted for approximately 650, 000 units.
Meanwhile, full-year sales of heavy-duty trucks, which are driven principally by industrial production, construction and infrastructure spending, are only expected to reach 700, 000 to 750, 000 units this year, down 15 percent to 20 percent from 2011.
And the list of products potentially affected is long: mowers, tillers, pressure washers, blowers, trimmers, chainsaws, generator sets, mixers, loaders, pump units, backhoes, forklifts, farm vehicles, motorbikes, go-carts, all-terrain vehicles, snowmobiles, inboard and outboard motoboats and heavy-duty trucks.
In addition to medium and heavy-duty trucks and buses which are clearly used by businesses, commercial vehicle numbers in China include sales of light trucks and mini trucks and buses, many of which are used by individuals and small businesses.
Already, the Obama Administration has made historic progress through investments in clean energy, new fuel economy standards for cars and light-duty trucks that will save approximately 1.8 billion barrels of oil, and steps toward the first-ever fuel economy standards for medium- and heavy-duty trucks.
Historically until lately, diesel mainly was something Americans put in their heavy-duty pickup trucks.
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That's why Ford has no incentives on its hot-selling, heavy-duty pickup trucks, and why incentives on its popular Expedition and Escape suvs are much lower than the deals GM is offering on competing models.
Of the seven full-size, heavy-duty diesel pickup trucks Vincentric studied, the Ford F-350 is the only one with five year ownership costs that are lower than that of its gas-powered equivalent.
Its engine segment (49% of net sales in 2010) produces a wide range of engines that run on diesel and natural gas used in heavy-, medium- and light-duty trucks, buses, automobiles, RVs, and industrial vehicles.
Heavy-duty pickups and vehicles like buses, delivery trucks, or vans would save one gallon for every 100 miles traveled.
On Tuesday, August 9th, the President will travel to Interstate Moving Services in Springfield, Virginia, to announce first-of-their-kind fuel-efficiency standards for work trucks, buses and other heavy-duty vehicles.
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