Sales of medium and heavy trucks--Tata Motors' mainstay--and buses plunged 39% to 19, 095 vehicles.
The next logical evolutionary development is to initiate an expanding cryogenically-cooled LNG refueling infrastructure for long-haul heavy trucks.
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Cummins (CMI) manufactures diesel, hybrid, and natural gas engines, primarily for heavy trucks.
And heavy trucks ruined the local road and damaged houses, he says.
The bridge is not designed to carry heavy trucks filled with minerals.
Sales of medium and heavy trucks and buses plunged 39% to 19, 095 vehicles, hurt by slowing economic growth, reduced freight transportation, and lower demand in sectors such as mining.
While the Indian automobiles market is showing signs of revival--sales of passenger cars were up 6% in the last quarter--the market for heavy trucks, Tata's mainstay, shrank by 20% in the same period.
He also put in place a vigorous international expansion plan that included the purchase last year of Volkswagen's Brazilian heavy-truck business and this year of a 25% stake in Sinotruk, China's biggest maker of heavy trucks.
In addition to the growth in light trucks and cars, sales for heavy trucks and truck trailers have risen, and there, too, fuel standards will mean more aluminum will be used to lessen the weight of the vehicles.
The list of winners includes some big global brand names, such as Sweden's Volvo , which makes heavy trucks--Volvo's auto business was sold to Ford Motor (nyse: F - news - people ) in 1999--and gained 68%.
And that could actually end up saving us -- we were talking about this the other day -- it could end up saving us something like 500 billion barrels of oil, huge amounts of oil, because heavy trucks use so much.
The rebound in vehicle production is going to be one of the main drivers of aluminum demand wit auto production, heavy trucks and aviation all seeing a resurgence as the economy improves, he said, echoing what several presenters at the Harbor conference mentioned.
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But the maker of International brand heavy trucks and buses did make an important strategic move Thursday by announcing it will purchase diesel engines and after-treatment components from its rival Cummins, which is already producing engines that comply with emissions rules set by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
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.
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.
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.
After much heavy labour with trucks and shovels, several severed roads have also been reconnected.
Although not as sexy or glamorous as passenger cars, the numbers for heavy-duty trucks are no less impressive.
In the last fiscal year, sales of heavy buses and trucks fell 23% to 268, 263 vehicles, the data showed Wednesday.
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.
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