Once natural-gas refueling stations are built along our interstate highways, large trucks can run on cheap natural gas.
They hurt sales of large trucks, so people who need a pickup might buy a smaller one instead.
One of the worst hit would be North America where it makes engines for large trucks and power generation.
Its current two-mode hybrid system is limited to large trucks and SUVs, like the Chevy Tahoe and Cadillac Escalade.
In North America, the fleet buyers of large trucks dictate which engines, gearboxes or braking systems go in their trucks.
About 264, 000 midsize pickups were sold in the U.S. in 2012, compared with 1.6 million large trucks, according to researcher AutoData Corp.
Waits tended to be much shorter at checkpoints that do not allow large trucks, such the Windsor Tunnel near the Ambassador Bridge.
Some, particularly those offered on large trucks and SUVs, remain generous.
But the current interest in LNG for large trucks is undeniable.
Sales of Caterpillar's large trucks and bulldozers had slumped.
More worrisome, perhaps, says Michael Robinet, vice president of vehicle forecasting for csm Worldwide, is that Opel has expertise GM needs as the industry shifts away from large trucks and suvs toward more fuel-efficient passenger cars.
Large trucks were involved in accidents that accounted for almost 10% of road fatalities in the U.S. in 2009, and truck drivers are five times more likely to die in work-related accidents than the average US worker.
Ford has said it must restructure its business to account for a permanent shift in consumer demand toward cars and crossovers, and away from the large trucks and sport-utility vehicles that had been a staple of profits in past years.
Worse, the vast amount of truck mileage will have a huge carbon footprint and increase the risk of traffic accidents and fatalities: Large trucks accounted for 8 percent of all fatal traffic accidents in the U.S. according to the most recent data.
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Two large refrigerated trucks are parked out back, to store the flowers at an optimum 38 degrees.
"We have, frankly, billions of pieces of paper that get put in the backs of large semi- trucks and rolled up to IRS facilities, " said David Williams, IRS' director of electronic tax administration.
Imagine 33 large pick-up trucks hurling towards you at five times the speed of sound.
But sales increases were seen across the board, including trucks and large SUVs, luxury vehicles and sports cars.
The only vehicles left that have high ceilings, big windows, and enough tire on the rims are pick up trucks and large SUVs like the Tahoe.
The category is heating up, though, thanks to the entry of VIA Motors, which is focusing on plug-in hybrid conversions of large GM vans, trucks and SUVs.
In America, where the price of a gallon of petrol can be less than the price of a gallon of bottled water, large fuel-guzzling trucks and sport utility vehicles (urban assault vehicles) make up more than half of the market.
And many large, important industries like trucks, diesel engines and wheel loaders are dominated by local players.
The Iraqis blocked three bridges across Tigris River from the eastern side with large concrete blocks and dump trucks, moving antiaircraft and artillery weapons on their side of the bridges.
For example, military trucks -- now in large supply -- could provide the nucleus for an entrepreneurial distribution system.
In L.A., I see the huge trucks sitting at shoots, large semis that sit idling while the equipment is unloaded.
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Nonsense, says Mr. Kalra, whose group once laid an ambush at a tollgate outside Delhi, jumping out to cover pro-honking signs of what he says were thousands of trucks, buses and other large vehicles with black paint over seven days, resulting in plenty of altercations with drivers.
Venezuela lacks the trucks and planes needed to move large numbers of troops quickly.
Let's say you work in the U.S. auto industry, which for years has banked on large, fuel-hungry SUVs and light trucks.
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